I have also been experiencing this saved and restore issue. I've been experiencing for over a month, and I keep very updated with my patches. It doesn't matter whether I start it from the executable in the file directory or from Steam, it seems to do with the size of the save game as if I only play for a minute and save, it will sometimes load, but any decent size game that I saved, it just won't load. It gets pretty far into the loading screen as it's been for quite a while and then I noticed it kind of stops the loading screen animation, and then the animation starts again again and then it crashes.