My games won't save on steam

[Coolaidd]

Well I got Bioshock 1 and 2 and borderlands the other day on steam. When I try to save my game progress it gives me the message"your Harddrive is full please free up space or select a different Harddrive". The problem is I have roughly 750GBs of free space .. Ive tried everything I could think of but nothing is working..
O and all the games are 2K games that aren't saving


Specs:
CPU: i7 2600k
HDD: 1TB
Memory: 12 GB
Graphic card: GTX 680 4 GB
Motherboard: Asrock extreme 4 P67
OS: Windows 7

 

[Night Hawk]

Have you tried the "backup local content" option to see what that does? It sounds like a problem with the Steam install rather then with either of the two games themselves.

If you are using the F key option to save try hitting the escape key to bring up the main options to save a game level to see if that will work. Sometimes the F key quick save option is problematic even for non Steam titles.

 

[Coolaidd]

I've tried the menu screen that's where I get the message. Haven't tried the quick save. I've "verify integrity of game cache" and "defragment cache files" also done several reinstalls. I've tried running them under system admin... I don't know what's wrong I just noticed its not just those games it's all my games now

 

[Coolaidd]

Only Bioshock and borderlands do thing all my other games save

 

[Coolaidd]

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[Night Hawk]

I would try reinstalling the Steam engine itself not the games. You've already went that route and got nowhere. That's apparently where the bug is being seen.

I have to say I'fve never run into this one having had a number of Steam titles over the years since 2004-5 with Helf Life 2. It's certainly an odd one! Even with the 3rd developer mods(HL2 based addon games - 1-10 levels) they always are able to save while several of those love to crash! Steam Client dll errors and HL2.exe stops responding are the typical errors seen.

When running a search on the problem you are seeing someone at the 2kgames site posted a possible solution to look at for Bioshock. Can not save game - full game (Steam) [Archive] - 2K Games Forums

The other thought on this would be unfortunately scrolling through the Steam forums threads for anyone else running into this one. it sounds like where the game saves are designated to go is where the problem is however according to the post found on the 2kgames.com site.

With the reinstalls you might be running into a duplicate folder type problem. If that's the case then it would see the drive as being full rather then being able to overwrite things in the first by the same name.

 

[Coolaidd]

So I should just delete steam itself and reinstall all titles?

 

[Manigue]

So I should just delete steam itself and reinstall all titles?

Before you do that, you might want to visit the Steam forums.

I had that happen to me way back. Unfortunately I don't remember which game nor the solution. But, I do remember finding a simple solution in Steam's forum.

 

[Night Hawk]

You woulldn't have to uninstall the games but simply uninstall the Steam item itself through the Programs + Features option in the Control Panel to separate that from any games already on. The fresh download, install, and then logging in would see all titles back in the game library without the major hassles for reistalling everything.

The best first move however would be running a search on the Steam forums since that's where most of the problems as well as many solutions would be found. I'm sure someone else has run into this as well while maybe not naming a thread there the same. http://store.steampowered.com/forums/

 

[Coolaidd]

The only thing I can find is deleting all my save files and duplicates

 

[Night Hawk]

One thing I did previously before the latest clean install of 7 was backing up the user acount as well as source mod folders over to another drive and one or two mods had to be redownloaded to see them run again while the fresh install of all Steam regular titles have had no problems.

If you create a new save at the beginning of each game map those can be backed up while dumping any duplicates found. You would simply replay to those particular points to save again later anyways while keeping the start of the map type saves.

Another though that came to mind if it would work would be taking ownership over the designated folder in case the System Admin's protection over the user folders is hampering things in any way. Since this is an odd problem I had to think of odd causes since generally the system denies access to certain folders as a rule when browsing the drive. If the game installer created the sub folder under one of those that would explain the error.

 

[Coolaidd]

On the 2k forums they said that the save error could come from a 0 KB folder within the "saved games" file of Bioshock itself. From what i Was reading is that deleting this file will fix the problem "doubt it". Also read about what you just said but i cant figure out how to allow admin priverages to bioshock when i find its laucher.exe, and click properties it doesnt give me the "run this program as admin" option. I'll see if the first thing works real quick... Hopefully it does..

 

[Night Hawk]

What you would be doing as far as locating and taking ownership would be elevating permissions for your own user account over the individual folder itself. Rather then seeing it being a system protected folder where the game is unable to write to it the elevated permissions giving you full control would allow any program under your account to write to it as well.

Note this is one theory on how to get Bioshock and the others to start saving to each one's own folder. You could also try reniaming the present folder slightly and creating a new one in it's place with full user control to see if the game then starts saving files.

You can see the option to take ownership added to the right click menu options which comes in quite handy for any occasion which generally works well for things like this. Add "Take Ownership" to Explorer Right-Click Menu in Win 7 or Vista - How-To Geek

As far as wiping all present game saves in order to see if new ones will be written I would say that would be an unnecessary step which wouldn't solve the actual problem you are running into. But again that would be strictly upto you if you wanted to start everything all over fresh.

 

[Coolaidd]

I'll see if that work when I get home from work. If it doesn't any other ideas?

 

[Solarstarshines]

Did you Verify Cache Integrity ?

Click on the tab and it will go through the game registry and correct errors

 

[Coolaidd]

Yea I did that and it says everything is there I think I have a idea of what the problem is.. I have a HDD that is my C: and a solid state which is nothing yet. I think if I change to my SSD as My OS/c: and change the HDD to D:/ redundant drive than it will save. From what I was reading the save files save to the my documents folder; which I don't have since I have no D: drive except for the C:. If it works than I will have no problem with the save option. The only thing I'm worried about is have a secondary operating system on my HDD. An the main on my SSD. Do you think this will cause a problem?

 

[Coolaidd]

Didn't work.. At least I got my SSD installed now..

 

[Night Hawk]

I could have told you changing the drive where you have everything installed wouldn't help any since you already tried reinstalling each game! But you wanted the SSD to be the OS drive which works in your favor for the effort at least!

As for the other Steam driven titles I have on here never going for Bioshock after seeing a demo the game saves are generally found in sub folder of the game's main folder found on the main top Steam folder. While many programs will tend to stash thing under the user account\AppsData folder like the MS Virtual PC or VM ware storing VM and VHDs there you wouldn't expect pc games to be storing saves under anything but the save folder in the program's main folder.

There's probably a workaround for this since it seems to be a persistent permissions problem where the game is trying to write to one folder while the system admin is simply saying "no way! access denied!" or something on that line of thought. You may want to see if you can email the support staff for that software company to see what they come back with on this.

 

[Coolaidd]

I went ahead and uninstalled steam and deleted all save files. I'm not to worried about playing the games over again. I'll install it tomorrow and redownload the bioshock and borderlands to see if that works. I had to do a system restore a few weeks ago so I think that might be the problem.

 

[Night Hawk]

That could prove to be one possible source of the problem if something got knocked out but not restored in the registry. Like I was saying this is definitley one for the books since generally any full reinstall would automatically correct any problem similar to this at least.