Suddenly started getting an error message today when I try to save after painting a car, adding a vinyl to a car, or receiving a gifted car. When the game saves immediately after doing any of this, an error message pops up after a few seconds:
"The file failed to save. Please try your save again. (25)"
I can't paint cars now. I can't add vinyls to cars now. It looks like I can receive gifted cars, but my main focus in this game for the past year has been making liveries. If I don't have that, well...what's the point now? Do my weekly chores for a couple of cars I'm honestly not particularly interested in and will almost certainly never use more than once or twice if at all?
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I'm playing the steam version on PC. I verified file integrity and restarted my pc, but that didn't have any effect at all. Have any of you run into this?
I figured out what happened. Sort of.
Forza's support ticket system was pretty useless; they sent me a few troubleshooting links to go through, but nothing in any of them addressed my issue, or really had anything to do with it. They suggested (mildly) that network issues tend to cause save issues sometimes, then sent me troubleshooting links for game crashes with BSOD style error messages/codes and failure to load saves. I replied with more information on my issue and what it was not, and they marked the ticket solved
headdesk
But anyway, I couldn't do any sort of modification to any car, whether appearance or upgrade, and it gave me that weirdly generic error message whenever I tried to save after changing something. So, what happened?
I was trying different things in the game, seeing if any of it would have any effect, when I stumbled across a fix. The problem went away when I deleted a few liveries to see if it would have any effect.
Suddenly I can create new liveries again. I can create new vinyls and apply them. I can upgrade cars again. It doesn't make sense, but I went from "failed to save" to everything working perfectly
in the same game session, immediately after deleting a couple liveries. Sounds like some sort of database issue, maybe? I don't know, but it worked.
Just to clarify, the error message I was getting was distinctly different from the "too many saves" error you get when you max out the liveries, vinyls, tunes, or whatever else.