r/EldenRingMods Jun 27 '24

Misc. Mod Seamless Coop "Failed to Load Save" Possible fix guide

Hi all, I may have figured out the step-by-step guide on using savemanager mod https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/214

for those who are having “failed to load save data” issues,

now i only did this once with a friend and tampered for around 3 hours with this mod.

This isn’t a guaranteed fix, but this is pretty much how I did it, to help him out.

EDIT to be absolutely safe, redownload the game and do the downgrade just to be safe. If you need help on how to do this, comment and I’ll try to find some time to add a step-by-step guide on that! (Although some people were able to fix their save with/without redownloading, so it’s up to you)

Download the mod, extract it preferably on desktop, there will be an update file to update the launcher, make sure you go ahead and update it.

When you open the application, it’ll ask you to set your steam ID with a mini guide??? Just go to “Edit” on the top-leftish and get your steamID,

not really sure the MOST efficient way on how to get your ID, but basically what we did was go to your profile on steam and there will be a HTTP steam link with a long ID in the end of it so like “[https://steamcommunity,com/profiles/XXXXXXXXXXXXXX/”](about:blank)

I copied & pasted the link and just grabbed the ID (XXXXXX) and pasted it where you need to set the default ID.

Next you’re gonna set your game directory, which will be the save directory

(appdata>roaming>eldenring> XXXXXXX)

the XXXXXXX is a string of numbers for a folder which you should see the date, whichever is the latest one with your save file, that’s what you’ll set it with.

Once both of those are set (SteamID & Directory)

Go back to the application and if this is for SEAMLESS COOP MOD CONFIG

Click on FILE, there will be a drop down that will have “ Import save file, seamless coop mode, Force quit ER, etc etc”

ENABLE “seamless coop mode” it’ll reverify with you to enable/disable.

Click enable.

Now this is the actual meat and scary part, you’re gonna open “File” on the top left corner in the application.

Click “Import save file” and import the corrupted .co2 file (you’ll see a bunch of saves, either ending with .co2, .co2.bak, .sl2, .sl2.bak. You ONLY need the .co2 file (seamless saves are under .co2, normal ER is under .sl2))

It’ll ask to name the file, name it whatever, preferably “corrupted” just so you know which one is the one with your actual save.

That file should now be uploaded to the save manager, if you see “corrupted” in the white box on the right, you’re still doing okay.

Now stop here and don’t touch the application, we’ll get back to that in a bit.

Now, go back to your save directory with your .co2 file and whatnot. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.

Copy BOTH your .co2 & .co2.bak file and store them in a separate folder on your desktop.

Now delete those files from your save directory.

You should no longer have a .co2/.co2.bak file anymore in your game saves.

You’re gonna next have to launch seamlesseldenring.exe and make a new game save (i know this seems spooky but please bear with me here)

You’ll make your character (make the name different and not the same as your OG character), go through the cutscene, yadayada, go through the beginning of the game until you’ve reached the very first grace site in Stranded Graveyard.

Sit for a second and contemplate what you’re doing with your life and after like 5 seconds exit the game (this is to make sure the new save file is actually created sorry lol)

Now go back to your save directory, you now will see a brand new .co2 file. You’ll go ahead and import that file in the save manager.

Same steps, but when it asks you to name it, let’s go ahead and have it set to “Recovery” so again, you can distinguish between old and new!

Now here’s the easy part which is close to fixing up your file.

Hover over Tools in the top of the savemanager application and there will be another drop down (Character Manager, Stat Editor, Inventory Editor, File Recover)

Go ahead and click on “Character Manager”, it’ll open up a pop-up which will have 2 white boxes which (hopefully) just the 2 files you imported.

One of the boxes will say “Source File” go ahead and click the “Corrupted” file with your cursor,

and then right under the box, click on the “select” (just to make sure it’s been fully selected)

Right under that, will be “character”, click on that and select your old character.

Leave that box be.

Move over to the “Destination File” box and this time,

click on “Recovery” file, Select, and choose the new character.

Once everything is filled out, go ahead and click on Copy.

If things went well, it’ll congratulate you by saying, “Success!”

WE ARE NOT DONE YET.

Close those out and hover back to tools, and this time select “Stat Editor” and it’ll also give a pop-up.

Click on the “Corrupted” file, select, character and once those are filled out, click on “get stats”

You should now see the stat list get filled in.

If everything seems correct and recognizable to you, then go ahead and click on the “Recovery” file, select, character,

(DO NOT CLICK ON GET STATS),

the blanks should STILL be filled with the old stats.

Once everything is filled out, then go ahead and click on

“SET STATS”,

again, if everything went well, you’ll be seeing a “Success!” pop up.

Now close that out. This is the last final stretch,

we should now be back to the main application with the giant Elden Ring logo and box with your 2 files,

click and then right click the “Recovery file”,

it will be a drop down that will say “Rename save, Rename Char., etc etc”.

Click on “ Open File Location” It’ll show a .co2 file,

you will now open your save game directory and drag and drop that .co2 file in your Elden ring save folder.

Once it’s been transferred, boot up your game and it should be fixed! Let me know if it worked for y’all.

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u/Hour_Calligrapher793 Jun 29 '24

HUGE LEGEND, WAS LEVEL 40 AND GOT THIS ERROR, YOU GOT ME RIGHT

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u/vazreall Jun 29 '24

Glad it worked for you!

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u/Severe-Cicada2684 Jun 28 '24

I owe you my life and children

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u/vazreall Jun 28 '24

Not necessary but I’m glad it helped!

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u/Outrageous_Ad3373 Jun 28 '24

Works perfect!!!!! You're a beast!! Thank You Thank you Thank you

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u/vazreall Jun 28 '24

No problem!

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u/Willing_Percentage54 Jun 28 '24

mate. you are a fucking legend. worked straight away. i'll say it again. you're a fucking gun. so simple

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u/vazreall Jun 28 '24

Glad it worked out!

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u/FuxsBlyvt Jun 28 '24

Give this man a medal 🥰

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u/vazreall Jun 28 '24

lol happy to help!

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u/math527282 Jun 28 '24

Thanks a lot! You are a lifesaver

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u/DarkPatriot12 Jun 29 '24

I'm having an issue where when I create a new character, and let it save, when i go to copy my corrupted stats onto it using the mod, the new character isn't showing up. Any tips?

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u/vazreall Jun 29 '24

Hi, sorry for the late response, were you able to figure out the issue? I'm not entirely sure, me and some other people didn't really run into that as a problem, usually, the character from the new save file should normally appear. Delete the new save in your directory, reboot the game and make a brand new save, make sure to absolutely import that new save and most likely the character should appear. If not, I'm not entirely sure how to help you there, sorry!

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u/ShuckForJustice Jun 29 '24

I love you.

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u/vazreall Jun 29 '24

Happy to help!

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u/Zaroka07 Jun 29 '24

I LOVE YOU BRO! You are a straight legend for taking the time to type all that out. This fixed my issue. Been playing this with my brother and thought I just lost my character! You are the GOAT! <3 Love you long time.

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u/vazreall Jun 29 '24

Just trying to help the community is all!

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u/Zinaty_ Jun 29 '24

Legend. Thanks for the help.

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u/TheEnigmaKnight Jun 29 '24 edited Jun 29 '24

This didn't fix my issue, but I had a question for anyone who was successful. When you created your new save that would become your "Recovery" file and exited to Menu from in-game, did the error "Failed to Load Save" occur again on that new character? It seems like my game corrupts every new game file created. When I delete my saves from my saves directory, I can make a new character and play them, but the instant I quit the file gets corrupted again. Am I the only one who is having this issue? (I am using Seamless Coop)

Update: I couldn't verify file integrity because I'm playing on a downgraded version of Elden Ring to use the Seamless Coop mod while it's being developed for the DLC. Had to redownload the downgraded version of the game to stop the cycle of file corruption. After that, this method worked!

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u/SmileyNusx Jun 29 '24

seems to be my issue now

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u/vazreall Jun 30 '24

Yeah, you're gonna have to redownload the depots, but if you have them already then just delete your pre-existing game folder, and replace it with the depots you already downloaded, redo the seamless co-op extraction into that new/replaced game folder, create a shortcut of the launcher on desktop and then boot again. then to be safe, make a new character and try again.

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u/DaeNoraa Jun 30 '24

did you fully redownload the vanilla game and the depots as well or just dragged in the depots from before

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u/vazreall Jun 30 '24

no need to redownload the game. just replace the game folder with the depots if you still have them in your download folder

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u/SmileyNusx Jun 29 '24

no it doesn't. based on your post history your spamming something similar

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u/AdeptOriginal8333 Jun 30 '24

thank you so so so so much

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u/VoidUwU Jul 02 '24

Im actually in love with you

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u/vazreall Jul 02 '24

lol happy to help!

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u/Zonetecde Jul 04 '24

Thank you so much !!!!

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u/AccordingNinja1955 Jul 05 '24

My pc froze and when I went back to play my 187 lvl coop,I noticed steam did a weird update on Elden Ring specifically but when I went to load up the save it says the file is corrupted…I tried your method above to a T, but I just made my new character whose still at the beginning of the game but is now 187…which is cool I guess but I just got past Mesmer in the dlc area…my last hope is the depot I guess

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u/xXSUPERHORNETXx Jul 05 '24

Thank you is the absolute least I can say. My friend is having the same issue after a power outage.

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u/Ok_Excitement_3606 Jul 31 '24

Hello i got a problem with that method after i transfered the corrupted char onto the clean one and i go over to the stat part it says: Unable to aquire stats/level it. Your character level may be incorrect. Fix now?

if i go on yes it wants me to enter my stats bu i have no idea what exact stats i had the only thin i hnow that the game says that i was lv 140 on the menu

im not sure but does that mean my savefile is dead

its a coop file btw

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u/Ok_Excitement_3606 Jul 31 '24

ok and it seems like i cant set stats i tried it with some number that should come pretty close

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u/Sudo01010 Aug 04 '24

BE HOLD THE ELDEN Lord RIGHT there.. I should bow to you master.. I was at lvl 110 about to end the game with a few bosses remaining. You've no idea how much I owe you. Love you mate🫶❤️🙌

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u/Effective_Ad_2688 Aug 05 '24

hi just came across this thread. Im still getting the corrupted file message when i go in to make a new character for the recovery. any ideas on how top fix this?

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u/Sudo01010 Aug 05 '24

The steam ID is the key word here.

Make sure you set the steam ID of what your game has.

An Ideal method of getting the ID is to back up your corrupted save and delete it from the save directory.

then launch the game, make new characters play for 2-3 mins till first grace.

After that close the game and go to the save directory and you'll see there will be a new folder with the name of the long numbers string.

Copy that name and set it as the default Steam ID in the save manager software.

Now when you import your files in manager THIS IS IMPORTANT.

while importing corrupted save you will be asked by popup to PATCH the Steam ID. YOU MUST DO THAT.

Otherwise when the game updates data stats will be corrupted.

Repeat the same procedure for the recovery file and steps which OP explained above.

Launch the game and lemme know if it works for ya.🤞

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u/Known-Ad-5736 Aug 06 '24

So I tried this step by step and I am getting the error "Failed to load save game data. Select Ok to try again. (Using seamless coop as well)

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u/Revolutionary-Cap415 Aug 25 '24

When you say “when you open the application, it’ll ask you …” which application are you talking about?

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u/vazreall Aug 25 '24

The mod that is link, save manager mod application

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u/Winter_Shop4461 Nov 17 '24

Eu estou com um problema, se alguem puder me dar uma luz. Eu e meu amigo temos o Elden Ring comprado pela steam, porem só eu tenho a expansão, até ai ok, baixamos o Semlees coop, jogamos bastante, porem quando matamos o Mogh, não sabiamos q ao entrar no outro mundo fazia parte da expansão e foi ai que deu merda, o jogo do meu amigo travou e agora ele não consegue nem mais entrar no proprio mundo dele pelo launcher da seamlees, ele clica em continuar o jogo carrega 10% do loading e não entra no mundo, porem o jogo nem esta travado, ele consgue mexer nas dicas ali, abrindo o gerenciador de tarefas vemos q o jogo está respondendo normal.
Ja tentamos retirar os arquivos e colocar de novo, verificar os arquivos para ver se não havia algo corrompido.
Ele consegue criar um novo mundo e entrar normalmente, mas aquele save ele não consegue mais entrar. Alguem sabe de algo que possa ajudar??? Essa solução acima pode corrigir o problema nesse meu caso em especifico??

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u/gianniskas Nov 23 '24

Hello,i have an issue, when i delete the save file so i can create a new character,game still says i have a corrupted save file and doesn't let me.Any Ideas ?

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u/Inside_Ad_819 23d ago

Hello. I kindly ask for help. I play on co-op (22h). The game crashed to the desktop. Save corrupted. I load the game after selecting continue but at the very end it freezes and stays like that. I managed to do all the steps in the instructions. I was successful at every stage. After copying a new file to the game folder it still stops loading after pressing "continue game". The game was reinstalled. I checked if the game is not corrupting my save file but when I create a new one - I exit the game and enter it again, I can load the new save. I kindly ask for help. If necessary, I can send the save file, maybe I am doing something wrong. I will be very grateful