lost my saved data after system reinstallation

[liukai8x4]

is there a way to recover my saved data? after I reinstalled my computer the game just start from beginning? maybe my saved data is uploaded somewhere online ?

[Sparhawk 59]

If you didnt have a manual back up saved on a flash drive!!! or cloud was on then no. Their are saves on nexus mods could try their or its start again, I can help with an item drop runes etc to help you breeze through the game thats about all

[liukai8x4]

Originally posted by Sparhawk 58:

If you didnt have a manual back up saved on a flash drive!!! or cloud was on then no. Their are saves on nexus mods could try their or its start again, I can help with an item drop runes etc to help you breeze through the game thats about all

thanks bro, i am not sure whether I enabled save data on the cloud or not. But I am pretty sure I didn't even touched the option. I haven't played the game for over a year maybe. If by default it's enabled then it must be saved online somewhere. Unfortunately the game start from beginning every time

[Sparhawk 59]

google cloud save see if the save is their. nexus has some saves u would need to research how

[Medusahead]

If it's Windows then you can look in Windows.old \ users \ [YOUR USERNAME] \ appdata \ roaming \ ELDEN RING . . . and the save data is there.

[Certified Idiot]

As I just discovered today, Elden Ring doesn't seem to have cloud save integration for steam.

You could try this link to see if there's anything there for you:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage
There wasn't anything for me though.


I just lost two characters and 170h of progress, it was my own fault though.

After seeing that to achieve all endings on one NG you would need to make backup saves and restore them manually after each ending I went ahead and did exactly that. Except...for the last ending, I accidentally moved my backup into my save folder, rather than copying it. I deleted the save by impulse after I was done thinking I'd have the backup ready and well...it was too late to realize I'd moved my backup rather than copied it by that point. I couldn't retrieve anything with right-click undo at that point and nothing was kept in the recycle bin as it was full.

I guess I live up to my name at least...

edit: Okay, so there are cloud saves it's just potentially unreliable due to a bug.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

well i mean even if theres no way of recovering it just start a new playthrough :D ive made so many different character with different builds etc over maybe 20-30 times already and its still fun elden ring has a huge replay value

[Shady_Milkman]

Elden Ring doesn't do cloud saves? How am I able to play the same save between my PC and Steam Deck then?

*hint* - It does cloud saves

[Sparhawk 59]

Originally posted by Shady_Milkman:

Elden Ring doesn't do cloud saves? How am I able to play the same save between my PC and Steam Deck then?

*hint* - It does cloud saves

Yes it does have cloud save ds3 doesnt

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Shady_Milkman:

Elden Ring doesn't do cloud saves? How am I able to play the same save between my PC and Steam Deck then?

*hint* - It does cloud saves

If you are at the lucky side, cloud saves can bug with this game and you can get connected to a empty Backup server, than all is gone to Null.

[Certified Idiot]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Originally posted by Shady_Milkman:

Elden Ring doesn't do cloud saves? How am I able to play the same save between my PC and Steam Deck then?

*hint* - It does cloud saves

If you are at the lucky side, cloud saves can bug with this game and you can get connected to a empty Backup server, than all is gone to Null.

I'm guessing that might be what happened to me? After checking the link I posted previously there was nothing for Elden Ring, and when checking the games properties (cloud save was enabled) it lists "0MB stored of 38.15MB available".

I haven't actually launched the game or closed steam after my saves mishap, so I was thinking steam shouldn't have overwritten my cloud save with nothing (I certainly haven't had a prompt). If it can overwrite a cloud save with simply nothing unprompted then it's pretty redundant.

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Certified Idiot:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

If you are at the lucky side, cloud saves can bug with this game and you can get connected to a empty Backup server, than all is gone to Null.

I'm guessing that might be what happened to me? After checking the link I posted previously there was nothing for Elden Ring, and when checking the games properties it lists "0MB stored of 38.15MB available".

I haven't actually launched the game or closed steam after my saves mishap, so I was thinking steam shouldn't have overwritten my cloud save with an empty save (I certainly haven't had a prompt). If it can overwrite a cloud save with nothing unprompted then it's pretty redundant.

it can overwrite or delete any cloud save if you got connected to a backup server because the server rule is the newest state is to use, after starting one time this is the actual state, i would say your save file is gone.

since this cloud save bug is known we always tell ppl to deactivate cloud save and make manual backups because it also can revert your save file to a older one and this can cause a ban if you have no actual manual backup to prevent it (happens to me and others as well, there is a one time warning that something is wrong with the save file and without restore the actual save file it cause a ban within 24h, i was lucky i had only started the game at a new rig so i was able to copy the correct file from the old rig).

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by Certified Idiot:

As I just discovered today, Elden Ring doesn't seem to have cloud save integration for steam.

You could try this link to see if there's anything there for you:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage
There wasn't anything for me though.


I just lost two characters and 170h of progress, it was my own fault though.

After seeing that to achieve all endings on one NG you would need to make backup saves and restore them manually after each ending I went ahead and did exactly that. Except...for the last ending, I accidentally moved my backup into my save folder, rather than copying it. I deleted the save by impulse after I was done thinking I'd have the backup ready and well...it was too late to realize I'd moved my backup rather than copied it by that point. I couldn't retrieve anything with right-click undo at that point and nothing was kept in the recycle bin as it was full.

I guess I live up to my name at least...

it does have cloud save... i got a new PC a while after first playing the game on my old trash PC and still had the save files after i changed to this PC the game does have it

[liukai8x4]

Originally posted by ShatteredPumpkin:

well i mean even if theres no way of recovering it just start a new playthrough :D ive made so many different character with different builds etc over maybe 20-30 times already and its still fun elden ring has a huge replay value

yeah,that maybe the only way. this game is so much fun but way too long and difficult. I haven't even finish once

[liukai8x4]

Originally posted by Certified Idiot:

As I just discovered today, Elden Ring doesn't seem to have cloud save integration for steam.

You could try this link to see if there's anything there for you:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage
There wasn't anything for me though.


I just lost two characters and 170h of progress, it was my own fault though.

After seeing that to achieve all endings on one NG you would need to make backup saves and restore them manually after each ending I went ahead and did exactly that. Except...for the last ending, I accidentally moved my backup into my save folder, rather than copying it. I deleted the save by impulse after I was done thinking I'd have the backup ready and well...it was too late to realize I'd moved my backup rather than copied it by that point. I couldn't retrieve anything with right-click undo at that point and nothing was kept in the recycle bin as it was full.

I guess I live up to my name at least...

edit: Okay, so there are cloud saves it's just potentially unreliable due to a bug.

maybe your saved data can still be recovered by software like disk genius. but my c driver is completely formatted for new win11. also my own fault

[liukai8x4]

Originally posted by Certified Idiot:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

If you are at the lucky side, cloud saves can bug with this game and you can get connected to a empty Backup server, than all is gone to Null.

I'm guessing that might be what happened to me? After checking the link I posted previously there was nothing for Elden Ring, and when checking the games properties (cloud save was enabled) it lists "0MB stored of 38.15MB available".

I haven't actually launched the game or closed steam after my saves mishap, so I was thinking steam shouldn't have overwritten my cloud save with nothing (I certainly haven't had a prompt). If it can overwrite a cloud save with simply nothing unprompted then it's pretty redundant.

I do have a 27 MB saved data from this link , but the data is the day I restarted the game, I wonder why it has a size like this. if it starts from the very beginning it should be very small right ?