This is one of the most infamous, persistent, and infuriating bugs in Watch Dogs 2 . It has plagued PC players (and sometimes console users) since the game’s release in 2016. The good news? It is fixable. It’s rarely a sign of a dead hard drive or corrupted save. Instead, it’s almost always a conflict between the game’s DRM, your save folder permissions, or background software.

Restart the game. It will attempt to create a fresh profile. 4. Check Folder Permissions & Compression

If a profile was partially written during a previous crash or sync interruption, the asset becomes unreadable.