Corrupted save files is one of current problems of the Stalker 2.

Replay and Replace

1. Turn off Steam Cloud for Stalker 2. (Go to Library in Steam and right click on the game, choose Properties and then go to General tab.)

2. Open folder C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\STEAM\SaveGames\Data. Grab all saves and move to desktop.

3. Delete folder Stalker2 from AppData\Local.

4. Open Stalker 2 and start new game. Skip cutscenes. (this creates a new stalker2 folder automatically in the above directory.)

5. Make 1 new save manually. Do not turn game off. Just tab out.

6. Open folder C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\STEAM\SaveGames\Data. Find your new manual save. go to properties and copy the name of the file.

7. Bring back one of your original saves from the desktop and put it in the above directory.

8. Rename your original save file with the same name as the new manual save.(Delete new manual save)

9. Load your original save (that now has the manual save name)

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