Don't install the new Resident Evil 8 patch if you value your save file

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If you decided to play Resident Evil Village over the weekend on Steam, then chances are you were kicked from the game and locked out before you could say Lady Dimitrescu. 

Affected players were met with a sudden black screen and a message telling them their data was “incompatible”. If you tried to restart Resident Evil Village, you were locked out of your save file – no horrific monsters for you this weekend. 

The culprit of this crash-causing and save-corrupting bug may be because you own a specific DLC. Capcom introduced new «anti-tamper code” in the latest patch to Village, Steam user FluffyQuack says in a forum post(opens in new tab). This is meant to prevent any modifications to the game, but it seems as if this has malfunctioned and is blanket crashing users’ games. 

Capcom has acknowledged the bug and says an official fix is on the way:

To all Resident Evil Village Steam players:We're aware of an ongoing issue with the latest patch that's causing the game to crash for some users. We're currently looking into a fix, and apologize for any inconvenience caused!October 17, 2022

This isn’t Capcom’s first PC-crashing rodeo. Back in 2007, Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 port wreaked havoc on unsuspecting PC players. Unfortunately, Capcom ported the inferior Playstation 2 version, not the superior Nintendo GameCube build.

Initially, the PC version shipped with none of the original lighting, lower-quality textures, and an infestation of bugs. All of this resulted in unhappy customers and even more unhappy PCs, as the bugs caused plenty of them to crash. 

Capcom eventually hired the company QLOC to develop another PC port, later released on Steam as the Ultimate HD edition in 2014. 

Funnily enough, people don’t seem to be too annoyed by