Moving save flie from windows to linux

[ShaiHullud]

I have Elden Ring playing great on Linux Mint. Working on learning Linux. Anyone have information on how to move my save file from windows to linux? Is there more to it than just copy windows save, paste into save location of linux elden ring save and change the file extension? Thank you for any suggestions, appreciated.

[Yard-Dog®]

Publicado originalmente por ShaiHullud:

I have Elden Ring playing great on Linux Mint. Working on learning Linux. Anyone have information on how to move my save file from windows to linux? Is there more to it than just copy windows save, paste into save location of linux elden ring save and change the file extension? Thank you for any suggestions, appreciated.

That's all there is to it, but I don't believe you would have to change the save file's extension is all. Just keep it the way it is. The save file is read by Elden Ring the same on Windows as it is on Linux I believe. I've done the same thing copying my save from my Windows PC to my Steamdeck (which runs Linux).

EDIT: BTW, I'm a big Strongarm fan...thus, I'm a fan of Shai Hulud. Perhaps you are as well?

[nfinite.recursion]

On your Linux machine, be sure to disable Elden Ring's cloud saves first THEN copy the file over. Afterward, run the game once and load your save then exit. Then you can re-enable cloud saves if you wish. This will update Steam's copy of your save which will be used across any other PCs you may have.

[ShaiHullud]

Thanks for the help. Worked fine. Had to move both the ER0000.sl2 and the ER0000.sl2.bak files over to the Linux save location. Just the ER0000.sl2 made it hang on a start up black screen. Guessing because the bak file and the sl2 files didn't match? Nice to have my builds on the linux side now. FYI it is playing great and I wonder if it isn't better than on the windows side. Using Vulcan shaders and the sound quality is up. Cheers!

[Yard-Dog®]

Publicado originalmente por ShaiHullud:

Thanks for the help. Worked fine. Had to move both the ER0000.sl2 and the ER0000.sl2.bak files over to the Linux save location. Just the ER0000.sl2 made it hang on a start up black screen. Guessing because the bak file and the sl2 files didn't match? Nice to have my builds on the linux side now. FYI it is playing great and I wonder if it isn't better than on the windows side. Using Vulcan shaders and the sound quality is up. Cheers!

Glad you're flying. Take care.

[ShaiHullud]

Hello Yard-Dog
Had to check out Strongarm and Shai Hulud, had not heard of them. Quite the wild ride. Always fun to check out something new! My wife walks in and give me that .. what the?.. look. Lol
Im just a long time fan of the Dune books and Frank Herbert is where I found the name.
And always picking up new music to listen too. Thanks!

[Yard-Dog®]

Publicado originalmente por ShaiHullud:

Hello Yard-Dog
Had to check out Strongarm and Shai Hulud, had not heard of them. Quite the wild ride. Always fun to check out something new! My wife walks in and give me that .. what the?.. look. Lol
Im just a long time fan of the Dune books and Frank Herbert is where I found the name.
And always picking up new music to listen too. Thanks!

Sincere thanks for sharing that, and yes...a wild ride indeed...and my wife reacts the same way for some of my musical adventurousness too. Cheers!

[nfinite.recursion]

Publicado originalmente por ShaiHullud:

Thanks for the help. Worked fine. Had to move both the ER0000.sl2 and the ER0000.sl2.bak files over to the Linux save location. Just the ER0000.sl2 made it hang on a start up black screen. Guessing because the bak file and the sl2 files didn't match? Nice to have my builds on the linux side now. FYI it is playing great and I wonder if it isn't better than on the windows side. Using Vulcan shaders and the sound quality is up. Cheers!

Performance on Linux for Elden Ring is generally a bit better than on Windows. Part of it is due to Steam downloading the Vulkan shader cache rather than building it in realtime like on Windows. The other difference is that Proton contains several fixes for improving how the game handles draw calls.