I'm running a clean base copy of TS3. No expansion, no mods, no CC, nothing. Everything was working last night. Today, I booted the computer and installed EA's new patch. Now, I can't load my saved game. I get the non-helpful message "A serious error has occurred" and it kicks me back to the opening screen. I can start a new game... but I don't WANT to start a new game.

I've wasted 3 hours tonight trying to get it working. I've followed all the steps I can find - deleting caches, removing the whole user files directory (then adding the Save folder, since the whole problem is that I want to access the saved game). I've tried restoring the save file from backup. I've rebooted. The only thing I haven't done yet is a full uninstall/reinstall. I'll do that tomorrow after work.

Is anyone else having this problem? Is there any way to roll back this patch? In hindsight, I guess I should have made a full backup before loading the patch, but it's too late for that now. Is there something I'm missing?

I now see other messages about saved games not loading, but they seem related to custom content. I guess if reinstalling doesn't work, I'll just have to suck it up.

Last edited by werismyki : 3rd Jun 2010 at 12:24 AM. Reason: Merged posts: 3185322, 3186572

Hmmm, you have pretty much answered all the proper questions yourself Unfortunately you are correct with the things you pointed out.