BIOS UPDATE REMOVED ALL MY GAME PROGRESSION

[mj420 x]

did a bios update now all my game progress for every game is gone

[Samtaro]

What has this game got to do with that? You probably messed something up and reset your hard drives lol. Either way we can't help you so just accept it and start downloading everything again.

[GreenBeard87]

cloud storage?

[X33STORM]

I'm 99.99% sure those two things are completely unrelated.

[mj420 x]

Originally posted by GreenBeard87:

cloud storage?

Yes... it only saved my fallout 4 and everything else is gone even tho everything was supposed to be backed up by cloud.. smh

[ItsSoVeryFluffy]

yeah that doesnt make sense to me the bios shouldnt have anything to do with the documents folder for rdr2.

[ItsSoVeryFluffy]

Originally posted by GreenBeard87:

cloud storage?

maybe this? otherwise idk

[Clancy]

Wow, you come and ask for help, then rant at everyone like a complete douchebag . . .

FYI, a bios update only flashes the cpu chip on the motherboard, and doesn't touch a single hard drive or file (unless YOU phucked it up) . . .simple fact regardless of how much you whine.

No idea what happened to your files, but a properly performed bios flash would never touch them, sooo . . . maybe you flashed to malware, but good luck figuring it out on your own, Einstein ;)

[Pheare]

Like others have said, I see no way a bios update could have affected you game saves and, presumably, nothing else, file wise, was affected?

Could this be a coincidence? Especially since you imply you had cloud saves enabled - there is no way a bios update did something to your cloud saves.

Have you tried signing out of Steam and then back in or even uninstalling/reinstalling? Maybe it is just a glitch in the matrix.

[Clancy]

Originally posted by mj420 x:

all i did was a bios update and now all the progress on my games are gone.... as for me ranting it was only to ppl who came n to troll and not to help you phukkin twitt. you can go phukk yourself too.. only 1 person out of 10 offered any kind of help and it wasnt you. the rest showed up to my post with the sole purpose of being a ♥♥♥♥.... you included

Still acting like a complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, no surprise nobody is helping you, but for the sake of argument I'll give it a shot . . .

You don't seem to understand how a bios flash works, or what components of the system it interacts with. It will never touch your files if completed properly, and can even be done with no disk drives attached, in order to remove viruses and reset systems after infections. The bios resides on chips on the motherboard, and all updates and interactions occur on the motherboard at the kernel level . . . NOTHING on the hdd is interacted with/accessed during the process.

Unless you screwed something up during the update flash, it doesn't even interact with system files, that is just a fact of how bios flashes work . . . if those files were screwed up during a bios flash, either it wasn't done properly, or the flash file is infected.

Unless you have backups, or cloud saves, there is probably nothing you can do.

If that answer pisses you off, then you can smh, as your so fond of telling folks . . .

[Duderino]

What you've been told about BIOS updates and a lack of file interactions is correct.

There is one other possibility, but only if you have more than one drive installed and the games are on one, with the saves on another. Then it's possible that one or more of the non-O/S drives don't have drivers new enough to be recognized in the new BIOS, and won't be seen now by the O/S and motherboard (obviously the drive with the O/S is functional, or you couldn't boot into it).

If that's the case, you won't be able to see the other drive/s now, or ANY files on the affected one/s. If you only have one drive, or you can actually see/access the drive/s that had the saves, then that isn't the problem.

If the drive IS missing after the update, then you need to download/install updated drivers for it and it should become functional again.

As for the cloud saves, there is no way a BIOS update could affect those as they are on a completely unrelated server, so not sure what happened there, but it wasn't from the update.