Character and fittings not synced across devices :: PGA TOUR 2K23 General Discussions

Store Page

PGA TOUR 2K23

All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews

PGA TOUR 2K23 > General Discussions > Topic Details

packy17

Oct 11, 2022 @ 12:32pm

Character and fittings not synced across devices

This thread is relevant to those of us who play on multiple PCs or devices (Steam Deck in my case)

This game does not use Steam Cloud, and 2K does not save your MyPlayer customization server-side. Why is this bad? Well, the character appearance part isn't such a big deal. You just have to spend a little time changing your appearance on each device. However, what IS bad, is that fittings also aren't saved. These cost VC to apply - meaning you'll have to spend double VC to play the same character on two devices. This needs to be changed.

Career, pro shop purchases, and skills sync correctly. Why not player customization?

A moderator of this forum has marked a post as the answer to the topic above.
Click here to jump to that post.

Originally posted by b3k:

Originally posted by Dash Riprock:
I can get to my directory but cannot figure out HOW to do the rest, my excuse is I'm old as the surrounding hills, and I wonder why the game doesn't 'back up itself' so no one has to live through this BS losing all your fittings and investments anymore (rant off), thanks for all help, I'm hoping someone will post a video to youtube on how to to fix this for the elderly.

Sorry for the delayed reply Dash... I completely understand. it really should be backed up to the cloud as a lot of modern games today are. Unfortunately and fortunately 2K has the save split into two parts. VC and earned fittings as well as battle pass unlocks and such are saved to your account via the cloud. So, you should in theory never lose those. Character customization, career progress, club fittings are all saved locally only.

Here are the instructions on how to restore the file pending that you are running File history or cloud storage services. I hope it helps... But, you can try to contact 2K support to be reimbursed for the lost VC. They will, however, be unable to restore the data that is only saved locally to your machine.

----------------------

The save file that matters the most is located at: C:/Users/YourUserName/Documents/My Games/PGA Tour 2K23/Common

The file should be called "Profiles###############.data".

If you are already using File History, you should just have to Right click on the file and select "Restore Previous Versions". Then, just choose a version from a time before the issues occurred. If you are using Google drive, Dropbox, etc, you may have to do the restore from the web interface. Basically, right click on the Profile.data file and say show on web... That will bring up the interface for both Google drive or Dropbox I believe.

You can also manually copy the profiles.data file into another folder to manually back it up. To restore that one, you just overwrite the file with your backed up file.

You may want to get into the habit of doing this each time you play the game if you are not using File history or cloud storage. Each time you change a fitting on your player, win a career match, etc. the save is updated. So, if you restore one from a week ago... all of your progress from that week in Career mode will be lost as well as any customization made to your player or clubs. Fittings earned/traded for and cosmetic unlocks will remain, though would need to be reequipped.

< >

Showing 1-15 of 78 comments

Junundu

Oct 13, 2022 @ 10:41pm

This is an absolute must have.

rokhom

Oct 14, 2022 @ 2:49pm

Cloud save? Multi Devices Progression Sync??

I have the game installed on the Steam deck and PC, but the character created on the Deck not show up on PC? is there a sync cloud save so progression on be synced on multiple devices.

rokhom

Oct 14, 2022 @ 6:44pm

Originally posted by packy17:
This thread is relevant to those of us who play on multiple PCs or devices (Steam Deck in my case)

This game does not use Steam Cloud, and 2K does not save your MyPlayer customization server-side. Why is this bad? Well, the character appearance part isn't such a big deal. You just have to spend a little time changing your appearance on each device. However, what IS bad, is that fittings also aren't saved. These cost VC to apply - meaning you'll have to spend double VC to play the same character on two devices. This needs to be changed.

Career, pro shop purchases, and skills sync correctly. Why not player customization?

For me the following syncs
Player Level, exp, VC
Equipment such as fitting

Only the Character customization and settings such as difficulty also differ between devices.

PandaStyle has PGA TOUR 2K23

Oct 14, 2022 @ 8:41pm

Is there a way that we can request this feature be enabled?

Raygank

Oct 14, 2022 @ 11:10pm

No cloud saves? Any way to sync between Deck and PC?

I had hoped this would support Steam Cliud saves, even though the previous game did not. Now that it’s out, it looks like it doesn’t. Disappointing for any game on Steam in 2022.

I’m playing primarily on the Steam Deck, but I would like to be able to play on my desktop as well. Does anyone know a good way to sync saves between PCs for this game?

packy17

Oct 15, 2022 @ 12:12am

I made a topic about this already. It doesn’t sync and there’s really no way to do it unless they decide to enable steam cloud.

Order of Extacy has PGA TOUR 2K23

Oct 15, 2022 @ 12:33am

Originally posted by packy17:
I made a topic about this already. It doesn’t sync and there’s really no way to do it unless they decide to enable steam cloud.

well lets make em hear us

xXRedxSlugXx has PGA TOUR 2K23

Oct 16, 2022 @ 5:27pm

Any chance we are getting cloud saves for this?

Game runs awesome on the Steam Deck but not having cloud saves is a real bummer. I know the 2k account transfers some progress but you essentially have 2 separate games going.

Blade

Oct 26, 2022 @ 7:56am

how to transfer profile?

When the game released I was out of town, so played on my laptop. I am home now but when I tried to transfer my profile (after installing it and finding out the cloud didn't save many things), I can't make it happen. I lost my fittings, my name, my player appearance, etc. Any help is much appreciated!

Operator175 has PGA TOUR 2K23

Oct 26, 2022 @ 8:32am

you shouldn't need to, I have the same issue, it's a bug. I reported it a few days ago. 2K said they're aware of it with no eta for a fix

#10

Blade

Nov 5, 2022 @ 9:37am

I fixed it by transferring my files from two folders on my laptop, then it worked fine. Moving files was required in 2K21 and I strongly suspect the same is going to be true for 2K23.

#11

pete_someguy has PGA TOUR 2K23

Dec 4, 2022 @ 5:41am

Why is there no steam cloud backup?

Hi all (especially devs);

How come there is no cloud sync?

How do we backup our progress if no cloud sync?

Thanks in advanced.

PS: Not impressed that there is no cloud sync given how much this game cost!

#12