So, this game has al sorts of broken if you play on anything more recent than Windows XP it seems.

When playing, and dying or restarting the game you suddenly don't start where you're supposed to.
First of all you're starting at the Gate, in the Dream. But then when you pass the gate you should return to your last campaign progress.

But sometimes it doesn't. 9/10 times when I play I start standing next to Dutch in the Tutorial or in front of Mentor in New Eden or whatever.
It's weird, it made me play through the levels enough to make a guide about that as well...
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1344040202

So what is this guide? Well I keep seeing other people having this issue so I collected all types of tips, solutions and answers.

However, I totally forgot to copy the usernames of the people who posted it.... Sigh. The copy feature on the discussion board is weird.

Anyway, if you feel responsible for a reply, just write and I'll credit you. Seriously, I feel bad about not thinking this through more.

If you know any other solutions, let me know.

Bartholomew P. Skibbenheims III

Tried every method of this guide including giving the folder and exception in windows defender. Still had the bug. Finally went with the one option I didn't try, disabling windows defender entirely.
That did it!! Thank you for posting this!!

May be worth it to some to try disabling windows defender completely first. But it does seem the fix definitely is different for some people.

Originally posted by Dæmön:

Here's an update, I have ran the game as administrator, removed read-only from the save folder, and allowed it as an exception on Windows Defender, and it seems to have fixed the issue. I have at least progressed to the Electric Sheep stage and it saved.

I also noticed that when you finish a mission, if the stage isn't unlocked in the base when you return, then it is a sign that it didn't save, so once my New Eden progress finally saved the New Eden stage unlocked in the base. When I beat Forgotten Center the first time and returned to base, the stage didn't unlock, but now that I have made these fixes, and have beaten it again, it has unlocked, and now my game loaded in the Electric Sheep stage, as it is supossed to.

it should not work like this, but it's a common symptom of broken save files. Check other threads for possible solutions. Often the game fails to rename the save files, so you are stuck with the old progress.
Typical things to do are
- make sure that the streumon folder (usually in documents, not within steam folders) and it's subfolders are not read-only
- turn off windows defender
- run as admin (so launch the .exe directly as admin and not via steam library)
there are other things like disabling of file indexing for the folder or manual renameing, just have a look at other threads.

as preventive measures against progressions loss you can
- do the three points above
- don't quit in headquarter, but start the next mission first
- make manual backups of your safe files so you can just replace the borked ones to only repeat progress once
- never ever tab out

Solved the issue disabling indexing for the streumon folder and excluding the folder from windows defender scans and verifying integrity of game files on steam


"A fix I found was to add the streumon folder to my exception list in Windows defender. I believe that was what did it, and now it saves my progress whenever I go to the next level and I don't spawn randomly in the middle of the next level."


Rename C:\Users\DenChen\Documents\streumon\eye\Save\temp_DenChen.HL1 to C:\Users\Deniz\Documents\streumon\eye\Save\DenChen.HL1!


Rename all Hl.1/2 and delete backup folder and change name in list.txt either

There were some threads made about this before, some lads were talking about it being a problem with the priviliges of the save files on C:/ or something like that.

Save states for current mission for the Master of Fate and current avatar are made by triggering point_EYEMyMission entity (saves progress for current mission) and point_EYEMyChapter (saves iformation on which mission you currently are). There MIGHT be a problem with writing to the file on C:/ on some Win10 pc's (i was lucky enough and i didnt have this problem so I couldnt really troubleshoot)

eye is infamous for ♥♥♥♥ing up it's safe files.
there are a couple of threads in here with similar problems, read them.
options, that I remember from my head:

activate console and watch out for errors, probably something with "failed to rename ..._temp to ..." will show up.
you can locate your safe files (usually in documents, not in steam folder) and try to rename the files manually.

you can also try to open them with notepad and copy the content to a new file which you then give the same name.

you can try to turn off file-indexing for the streumon folder and sub-folders (check other threads for how-to).

always launch the game as an admin (open the .exe as admin, not via steam library)

if you're not that far into the game yet, I'd say completely uninstall and delete the streumon folder, then reinstall it before you do the file-indexing etc. (will delete your progress)generally don't quit the game in Headquarter, instead start the next mission first.

the game seems to be more stable on windows 7 than on windows 10, dunno if that could help you somehow.

make backups of your safe-files somewhere out of the streumon folder after quitting the game, might save you progress incase the files get borked in the next session.

Unfortunately nothing of this is guaranteed to fix your game permanently, it's just things that apparantly increase the probability.
I still recommend going through the hassle, the game is kinda unique and all it's borkiness somehow adds to the experience.

Good Luck Have Fun and keep us updated what you do and if it works :)


Windows Defender. Turns out turning off that pile of crap and installing an actual antivirus for human beings helps.
Thanks, Microsoft.

Edit: So yeah, I can't get past the Dutch mission, when I beat it, it takes me to the MIDDLE of the next mission where I have to find the teleporters. And if I try to restart THAT mission, it brings me back to the previous mission.

I've verified files, did the index things with my files, I just don't know what I am to do at this point to progress in the story.

Also, everytime I launch the game, steam asks if it's ok for the client service to make changes or something, and then it performs FIRST time setup EVERYTIME.

Edit #2: I did the mission again, and I copied the text from the console and pasted it down below, if anyone can decipher what this means for me, please tell me.

Edit #3: I disabled my windows firewall on E.Y.E and it allowed me to advance to the next level whilst saving, but there are problems like if I died I would be reset to a random point in time in the previous mission. I just doubled down and sided with my mentor and completed my first run, and I then beat the first mission again. Disconnected and started the campaign back up only to find I'm back in the dream sequence when you beat the game. And sometimes I'll go to the next mission, not having access to certain objectives, or being placed in the middle of a mission... I never had these problems when I played the game a few years back, then again I played on a windows 8 computer, and now i play on a windows 10, so idk if that has anything to do with it

Edit #4: A fix I found was to add the streumon folder to my exception list in Windows defender. I believe that was what did it, and now it saves my progress whenever I go to the next level and I don't spawn randomly in the middle of the next level.

EYE Solo
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Players: 1 / 2
Build: 5371
Server Number: 2

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EYE Solo
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Players: 1 / 2
Build: 5371
Server Number: 3

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Originally posted by Bot Fret:

don't even need to disable your anti virus, just do as follow

press ~ to access your console command

example 1, after you have finished the first actual mission(new eden), have just returned to the temple and you want to start from the beginning of the 2nd mission(inside the temple, before you are sent to the mission location)

Use console command and type: changelevel cc_temple2

2, if you have just finished the xth mission, ready to do the next mission and your progression is resat, you can type: changelevel cc_temple(x+1) note: (x+1) means the number of x added by 1, if you want to do mission 6, you will need to type changelevel cc_temple6.

this should allows you to do all three paths quicker as you only need to type changelevel cc_temple6 in the console after beating one path and have crossed the gate.