Demon's Souls sudden issue

I keep getting this. Now that I updated RPCS3, it doesn't show all the lines it normally would in the log in the emulator, just this message every time the game hangs at 'creating save data'. This path seems to exist when I look at 'Save Data' in RPCS3, and I manually made a \home\...\ path in the actual RPCS3 folder. Cleared caches, reset directories, fiddled with settings, deleted and re-extracted RPCS3. No log file is being generated.