From Steam:

"Hey all,

if you already had the chance to play Ryse after it went live earlier today, you might have encountered an issue where the game lost your save, forcing you to restart the campaign when rebooting.

This issue was due to a problem with the syncing of save games between your game and the Steam Cloud.

We have just released a Hotfix to address this issue, so you will once again be able to save both locally and in the Cloud, as intended. It will also help gamers who reported issues with certain Checkpoints after dying.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to retrieve previously lost saves, and affected users will have to start the campaign anew.

We apologize to everyone affected, and hope you will enjoy your journey to save Rome this weekend.

Thanks,
The Ryse Team"

Update 1:

- Fixed crashes on first game start on certain configurations
- Fixed save game issues

Compatible with my repack also :)

... Wow, Ryse team.. you didn't actually test to see if savegames worked ;_; I'm just gonna wait for the inevitable 1,000 hotfix patches are included in a repack..

Especially a pain in the ass since you JUST made a nice pack for the release and bam hotfix patch ffffffff

Black screen with only sounds of battle(bad enough that needed to reboot comp with reset button) right after 1st cutscene where we see emperor and fighting gladiator. There is apparently a 2nd large hotfix out already, anyone has it already for codex release?

hotfix confirmed working and fixes saves.
win 8 x64

When will update 2 be uploaded?

@Heliopios

day 1 patch has been pretty common lately, shit happens. stop complaining like you paid them for it.

No work, crash 0xc000007b. Have any idea?

BLACK ANGELIKA

Thanks Drarbg!

Crash 0xc000007b RESOLVED, install directx 11 runtime (SDK).

does it works for windows 8 ?