Yeah, definitely - didn't think of that. That's another unusual thing about my system which tends to mess with things - my user is not an administrator. I ran the game as administrator, and sure enough, it had the same effect. I can test further by putting a symlink from the administrator's %AppData...

On the first launch after an auto-update (the restart done automatically), going to Play>Load Game shows no saves (as if I have never saved a game). It fixes itself after a restart, but is still a big nuisance because you have to sit through the loading screen again after you've just done it once. I...