Saved game stuck paused

Somehow my game is frozen, stuck in ‘Pause’. When I reload the game, my character is not at the disk and time does not advance (see link 1). I hit ‘Esc’ to enter the pause menu to try and force it to unpause, but then a ‘Paused’ indicator appears (see second link). The save is totally unplayable.

I can start a new game which works fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

1: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s27/sh/3cf1ae65-0618-4629-9862-6b8975f4eb14/1834fd5fdbf5c2c16bcbeac20064d332/deep/0/Screenshot%207/26/15,%2012:37%20AM.jpg

2: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s27/sh/968b19ac-f464-430d-99da-3634b608c296/f8503c91001d9fa1ae8f05377b837b16/deep/0/Screenshot%207/26/15,%2012:31%20AM.jpg

Do you have any mods installed?

I didn’t consider mods causing the issue. I disabled them, but the game is still stuck. :frowning:

Mods:

Finance mod 2.0
Percentager
UltimateLib
Information and Statistics Module
Game Dev Tycoon Mod API

That issue is most likely caused by a mod. You will probably find it helpful to check out our modding FAQ:
http://forum.greenheartgames.com/t/official-modding-f-a-q/9144

Especially:
If i want to deactivate a mod can i continue playing on my save game?

‘Most likely not. You will need to start a new game if you deactivate any mods.
Creating a backup of your save files before using mods will ensure that they are not permanently corrupted’

I would suggest starting a new game. To do this, as soon as the game hits the ‘click to continue’ screen press the ‘escape’ key and select ‘new’ from the menu. The error message may remain but once closed via the ‘x’ it should not recur.

Once a file has been corrupted by a mod, removing that mod afterwards will do no good. The damage will have already been done. For future reference, don’t use UltimateLib or any mods that require UltimateLib.