Cloud Saves: PC to Steam Deck Problem

[SmoothOpX]

Played 9 hours on a Sunday, saved game, checked save game before exiting, and shut down PC. Picked up the Steam Deck the next day and I was missing roughly 7 hours of progress. Is there any tips/tricks to getting the cloud saves to sync correctly?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by SmoothOpX:

Cloud Saves: PC to Steam Deck Problem
Played 9 hours on a Sunday, saved game, checked save game before exiting, and shut down PC. Picked up the Steam Deck the next day and I was missing roughly 7 hours of progress. Is there any tips/tricks to getting the cloud saves to sync correctly?

Have you tried turning it off and then on again?

[Osama]

same problem

[Kapper]

I've been switching between pc and deck and haven't seen this issue, but that's not to say it doesn't exist.

Do you leave the game running and put the deck to sleep? I did this once, then switched to PC, and it created a conflict when i woke the deck from sleep the next day. I just restarted the game and chose to use cloud save, overwriting the conflicting save that my deck created when I woke it from sleep.

The fact that this game even runs on the deck is really impressive imo. As long as your more recent saves are on your PC you should be fine to delete local save data on the deck and resync from steam cloud, wost case scenario?

[Karlfeldt]

just because the game saves files are way too big. Just checked my steam cloud save and it already reached nearly 2000MB, which take years to sync

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Karlfeldt:

just because the game saves files are way too big. Just checked my steam cloud save and it already reached nearly 2000MB, which take years to sync

Screenshot please.

[heyfunny]

I had a similar issue today after installing it on my Deck last night and also played the game on my pc till like 6am but I forgot to reconnect it to steam this morning to sync the save and when I started a new game while I was offline waiting for some car repairs to get finished I spent 2 hours making a new character and new Protector and started that game but didn't do anything just saved. And now I worried the conflict error is going to override the save from the Deck with the new character or and have to overwrite my other save on the pc losing like 7 hours. Is there no way to import a new character save or is there a way to export a character like a template?

[Asgo]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Karlfeldt:

just because the game saves files are way too big. Just checked my steam cloud save and it already reached nearly 2000MB, which take years to sync

Screenshot please.

I would guess the sum of all savegames not per savegame.

one savagame seems to be around 20M and between auto/quick/manual saves 56 accumulate for me to something like 1.1GB. So his might in total come to 2GB with more saves and perhaps they get slightly bigger down the road.

on the original topic, I think I have seen cloud syncs take time and fail after ending the game. My guess based on the number of active players would be overload on the server side - even though I don't exactly know how they are organized.

[heyfunny]

Oh good news I told the Steam Deck to use the Save from today with the new game I made and then updated the cloud then ran the game on my pc and not only were the New save on the list but also my last save before I crashed out last night so I guess it did merge them instead of wholesale deleting one save folder and replacing it or something. Also I noticed there is a button in the launcher setting to take you to the profile folder that has the saves in it if anyone was looking for it.

[stoned patrol]

Turn "Cross Save" off then back on, possibly a couple times. It worked for me, was able to save manually again and it was stuck on sync save for over an hour.
This really helped me because I had played about 3 hours on my Steam Deck n would have lost all that progress when going to play on my PC.

[Warheart1188]

This has been happening to me since January. The only way I can get rid of it is closing Steam and reopening as admin. But it happens anytime I play the game on my Deck, the PC Steam client won't sync the saves. Luckily my Larian account syncs the saves but still. Annoying to wake my PC and have Steam scream at me that BG3 cloud saves can't sync.