Go back to make screen and choose New Game.Try to load one, and you will get the same error.You should now see the characters from the imported save game.Click Ok, and you will be taken back to the character selection screen.Try to load any save game, and you will get an error: Failed to load Character data.Copy the new save game over top of your existing one in the save game location.At the screen which you select which character to load, alt-tab out of the game.(If you do not have a current game you may have to make a new character as soon as you are past the intro video and can run around, quit to the main menu, and select continue.) Backup your save existing save game if you have one.Note: The save game location for Dark Souls II is %APPDATA%\DarkSoulsII\XXXXXX\DARKSII0000.sl2 where XXXXXX is a bunch of numbers, likely associated with your Steam account. In order to get the game to recognized the borrowed save game do the following: This isn’t trivial to do, as the save game is locked to the steam account. I recently had a mess up in which I lost my save game for Dark Souls II.
