My games won't save on steam

[Coolaidd]

I'll see how to goes when I get home hopefully it works

 

[Night Hawk]

Good luck with it! I just have to wonder if you are running into some type of OS related problem however rather then this being a Steam or game related issue. Not having enough permissions was a quick glance while you may need to see something else fixed to see the game run properly again.

The first tools would be the sfc /scannow for System File Checker and scheduling a run of the Check Disk tool chkdsk /r may discover some other drive error problem. That might explain why the games are not able to write to any folder.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Also if you are Re Installing Steam it might view your Setup as a New Computer

You said you swapped in a SSD so it might change your make up and grant you full funtions again

 

[Night Hawk]

He already switched over to the SSD seeing a clean install of everything and is still running into the same problem. That's what I get from him mentioning having the SSD now set up and running. A possible bad install of Windows on the newer drive? I tend to doubt it and doesn't explain things.

If you originally bought Bioshock and the others on disk and not simply a download I would think you have gotten a few bad game disks to start with. If these are all bought online at the Steam store and downloaded the redownload should have cleaned up any initial problems.

The last thought would simply be a problem in game coding where certain conditions have to be met in order for the game to run as it should. At least Bioshock may need a patch of some type if not another workaround to get to save again. The Steam engine on the other hand sees updates every so often ruling that part out since you have already seen that reinstalled fresh.

 

[Coolaidd]

I think it's a steam itself because I am having problems with Dawn of war 2 when I download from steam, but when I install from the cd version I have no problems. Every game I own on cd version than it works fine. I tried a few things trying to get it to work I disabled the UAC settings also went in and manually reinstalled all the drivers for the games. Still didn't help I've done a fresh reinstall of steam itself deleted every save file I have. My company of heroes game crashes on the loading screen. I still can't figure out what's wrong, this is the strangest thing I've ever had happen to me.

 

[Solarstarshines]

I think it's a steam itself because I am having problems with Dawn of war 2 when I download from steam, but when I install from the cd version I have no problems. Every game I own on cd version than it works fine. I tried a few things trying to get it to work I disabled the UAC settings also went in and manually reinstalled all the drivers for the games. Still didn't help I've done a fresh reinstall of steam itself deleted every save file I have. My company of heroes game crashes on the loading screen. I still can't figure out what's wrong, this is the strangest thing I've ever had happen to me.

Well you can do this take the CD version stall it and make steam take it over I have done this with some of my titles that steam carries and it will work just steam won't control it
Just be in there libary untill you are ready

 

[Coolaidd]

Yea but I still won't be able to save on both bioshock 1 and 2 and borderlands :/

 

[Night Hawk]

I think the problems you keep running into are surrounding those titles alone regardless of seeing the installation by disk or by download. Or you have something else on your system clashing with them. That's another possibility to consider.

With the Steam titles I initially install by disk and later download following a clean install of Windows the games have always saved without issues of any type. That includes DIRT Showdown I got a free deal on from a cpu purchase through the vendor lately.

Some years back before AMD took over ATI the Catalyst had to be disabled before running some game titles due to that causing problems. Antivirus softwares are also known to be problematic at times. Yet not all games are effected by the same av program.

 

[Coolaidd]

I have trend micro but it's never been a problem before. Ill go in and allow individual programs maybe that will work

 

[essenbe]

You can also try opening the Steam folder and deleting everything except the Steam.exe folder and the Steam apps folder. Start Steam and you will see it downloading updates and basically reinstalling itself. That fixes many problems. In fact, that is what Steam says to do when changing Steam from one hard drive to another. You will lose nothing and it will take about 5 or 10 minutes and you will be back in business.

 

[Night Hawk]

That would be an idea since once you have a new game installed by disk seeing the product key activated to that one account you can always go back and redownload to install when looking the Steam Library tab on the main screen that appears first. Nothing can be ruled out so give it a try.

 

[Coolaidd]

I'm going to try that and see if it works hopefully it does. I will make me mad if it does and it was that simple but also I'll be happy it actually worked lol

 

[Night Hawk]

Once you find that works you can always post the results on a Bioshock forum somewhere to let everyone know how to fix it!

It's still a good one for sure since I haven't run into anything like that with any Steam driven titles tried out so far as well as with any other pc game in fact while some simply won't run on the newer Windows or only on the 32bit 7 but not on Vista x86.

 

[Coolaidd]

It didnt work for company of heroes, I'm not sure about bioshock yet

 

[Solarstarshines]

Have you tryed to contact steam at all ?

Maybe your Account is being messed with ,I would send them a message about this whole deal if you have before and there so called fix didnt help yuou need to reach out to them again

Sounds like there cloud is having issues syncing to your files properly which isn't saving anything

Im not sure if you are aware of this but not to long ago they were putting a global warning about accounts being compramised so a long shot but worth a shot

I think it is Ridiculous you are having a issue like that when everything you install ran fine otherwise

 

[Coolaidd]

I tried but haven't gotten a reply yet. This is really stumping me usually by now I would have figured out the problem

 

[Night Hawk]

As I was saying this is certainly an odd one to start with. You've tried wiping everything out for a fresh reinstall and the games still refuse to save. Are you trying to create saves at the start of each level or during game play like half way through a map?

The saves for any and all games Steam or otherwise always see a save as soon as the next level loads. In some saves however I manage to create some interesting custom saves where you work in reverse direction but even those always save the place you start at.

Contacting Steam does however now sound like the best option you have to see what they offer for help with this. I have to agree with Solarstarshines about them likely being the only ones that could find where the problem is.

I had to add this possible cause in as another possibility since I already mentioned the av program being a possible cause. This would be the games being denied the permissions needed on the same idea I previously had on taking ownership over the game's save folder but would apply to each game itself instead.

If you have the Windows firewall on or have another firewall program installed that may be what is tripping things up. You would need to add each game into the Allowed programs list. The firewall would be the thing preventing the game from writing any new save to the drive. Just like you might have to gain user account permissions a firewall would need to be set to have each game allowed those same permissions by way of the exceptions for them.

 

[Coolaidd]

Yes I played bioshock until it got to a auto save and the error message came up ... Saying not enough save on Harddrive please select a different Harddrive to save

 

[Night Hawk]

That's a problem in the game itself then! At first you were mentioning the save from menu not saving. But the auto save not working is software there! Too bad you couldn't contact the game's own software company to find out what's the story with that one!

Don't feel alone with this problem! When running a fast Bing on auto save I ran into another problem thread where someone was seeing with the 64bit Vista back in 2007! BioShock CRASHES at auto-save + game will randomly not start up [Archive] - 2K Games Forums

Here's another for not having a Windows Live account and wanting to save in Bioshock 2 to look at. How do i save bioshock 2 without a windows live account? - Yahoo! Answers

If you dig even further you can look over a thread a lot like this one seen over at the VF as well. BIOSHOCK - unable to save due to "Read Only" errors. - Vista Forums

All I can say is that I tried a demo for the game some time back and am glad I never went for it! The indicators from all these seem to point right back to game coding errors. This is one reason why getting in contact with the game's own software company to put in a support request about this mey yield a patch for the game they may have released.

 

[Coolaidd]

Well I think I have fixed terraria, dawn of war 2, and company of heroes it was a registry error preventing my computer from connecting to the servers for updates. I got it fixed with mrfixit it's a Microsoft registry fixer. Not sure if it fixed bioshock 1 and 2 or borderlands yet tho