Mass Effect Andromeda Not Saving Game [ Edited ]

[Pegamus]

Have had to restart my game for the third time. It is not auto-saving my progress or my customized character. It gives no message about there being any problems, but there is no load option for either saved games or even worse, it says my customized character isn't there. There doesn't seem to be any Document files for this game, unlike other games by EA.

[Pegamus · Accepted solution]

Found that the folder the Save Data was to be stored in was set to "Read Only", so removed that requirement and changed the Admin access rules for the folder to allow full access as well, just in case.

[Pegamus · Accepted solution]

Found that the folder the Save Data was to be stored in was set to "Read Only", so removed that requirement and changed the Admin access rules for the folder to allow full access as well, just in case.

[DragonTruscott]

Having the same issue but not sure where the Saved Data folder is located.  I have a folder under My Documents with other Bioware games save data but ME:A is not there.  

Spent a couple of hours playing only to have to start over from the very beginning.  Makes the game virtually unplayable.

[holger1405]

@DragonTruscott

It seems that MEA can't access your "Documents" folder.

Try to run Origin or the "MassEffectAndromeda.exe" as administrator.

[Rand207]

I run MEA from a desktop short cut by right clicking "run as administrator" and have no save/load issues.  I've been doing this for all my games since switching to Windows 10 and it's eliminated any starting/saving/loading issues with the games I've played recently.

[DragonTruscott]

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@holger1405 wrote:

@DragonTruscott

It seems that MEA can't access your "Documents" folder.

Try to run Origin or the "MassEffectAndromeda.exe" as administrator.

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That did the trick!  Thank you!  

[holger1405]

@DragonTruscott

You're welcome.

[ineedcalculator1]

I hope I'm doing this right, but I run the exe as administrator through the desktop and still won't save. I've been trying like 5 times in a row I probably have that entire intro sequence memorized. 

The game shows the autosave icon but doesn't do a thing actually saving the game.

[taimyshoo]

Tried both of these fixes and neither one worked. When i took the folder off read only but when i went back to check it marked as read only again. Ran game as administrator and still no autosave, no load options at all. And I swear If i have to play the prologue mission one more time im going to return the game

[holger1405]

@taimyshoo @ineedcalculator1

Did you also run Origin as Admin?

If that also not works then there is probably a permissions problem at your system. Moving the standard "Documents" folder to the drive where the game is installed could solve that.