Cloud Saves Not (Down)Loading Appropriately

[Killer Penguinz]

I am running into an issue constantly with cloud saves not syncing/loading on the Deck. Sometimes it has been the PC not downloading the save from the Deck (though very infrequently, and this seems to be fixed by simply turning on the deck at times - didn't give enough time to upload the save before powering off - or starting the game, exiting, and letting it upload), but the most prominent issue is the Deck not downloading the cloud save.

I've tried running the game on desktop, saving again, exiting, and then I see the upload to the cloud occur, and then a moment later my Deck shows "downloading update" for that game. When I launch it, though, the game has not updated, it is still showing a save from 1 or more days ago.

Has anyone found a successful way to fix this? I've tried restarting, turning on and off wifi, turning off and then back on cloud saves for the game, and all the other basic things you could think of to force a sync, but it just does not seem to be actually loading the cloud save.

[sludge]

+1 on this, unfortunately I haven't found a fix (I just got my Deck as of a few hours ago) but I also have trouble with the Steam Cloud Sync not downloading for 2 of my games thus far.

[BornToPlayGames]

Same issue here especially when playing on PC then carrying over to the deck, the cloud save never syncs properly. What normally works is to go into your library and manually sync the cloud save before starting the game on the deck.

[tofu]

Same problem. Happened after I lost wifi connection while playing dead cells. Haven't been able to sync it with steam cloud yet.

[Schwaka]

I have the same issue, I tried to sync saves for 2 different games, ff4 and Titan Quest, and for both of them it wouldn't push my save from Deck to PC, but PC to deck worked fine. I had to use desktop mode, install Warpinator, find the save files, and manually transfer and overwrite them every time to move a save from my Deck back to PC.

I started just streaming the game from my PC instead of actually installing it on my Deck, which somewhat defeats the purpose of even buying once since I already had a Steam Link.

[bayou_hannibal]

I'm having the same issue, but only with some games. Hollow Knight they don't work, but for Psychonauts 2 works just fine.

[Ben Muzz]

I’m also having this issue with the Witcher 3 saves. I played it on my Steam Deck, then closed the app. I was connected to the internet the whole time. Then later on my PC I tried to play but it said there was a cloud sync error as the app was running on the steam deck. I checked and it wasn’t, so I restarted Steam on the PC and tried to start the game. This time it said that there was a newer save on the steam deck that had not yet uploaded to the cloud yet. So I went back to the Steam deck (which again, was connected to the internet) and tried to sync but it said there was an error and it was unable to sync to the cloud. Very frustrating.

[Cypherous]

Originally posted by Schwaka:

I have the same issue, I tried to sync saves for 2 different games, ff4 and Titan Quest, and for both of them it wouldn't push my save from Deck to PC, but PC to deck worked fine. I had to use desktop mode, install Warpinator, find the save files, and manually transfer and overwrite them every time to move a save from my Deck back to PC.

I started just streaming the game from my PC instead of actually installing it on my Deck, which somewhat defeats the purpose of even buying once since I already had a Steam Link.

From what i've read thats something the developer has to resolve due to the deck needing to be told its ok to upload the save file in some cases

[Eternal Chamnpion]

I played on my PC, then on my Steam Deck and the save transferred over with no problem. But then when I boot up my PC there isn't even an indication that the cloud sync feature is there anymore. Like the whole "Cloud Sync" status icon is GONE. All my settings have the feature enabled (On deck and PC) and it shows up on other games but not this one (Assassins Creed Odyssey) I'm pulling my hair out over here.

[Zagan]

Having the same problem with only one game. Disco Elysium.

[🏇]

Having similar issues with Rimworld atm. My PC reports successfully synced savegames and the Deck reports on launch that the latest savegames from my PC arent uploaded yet. Could get it to work temporarily by copying the files manually and removing the remotecache.vdf of Rimworld on the Deck, but it started doing the same after a play session on my PC again. My PC is also running Linux.

[mr_c_m_k96]

Yeah I'm also getting the same problem for some reason the cloud saves do not transfer properly or not at all sometimes

[Codie]

I have the same issue. However, I can't find more info/threads about it - isn't it a common problem?
Additionally, there's sloppy workaround for this - before launching the game, go to Settings and change it to Offline mode. Launch the game. Then change to Online mode again when the game is still launching. For me it helps with loading the newest save (from PC).

[Axiom]

having the same issue with Seikro

[MaDCaT_ZA]

I got my Steamdeck today and wanted to continue playing Wasteland 3 on the deck. Both PC and Steamdeck have Cloudsaves enabled but the deck is not downloading them. Pretty irritating.

[JohnnyTsunami]

My cloud saves are always out of sync, please fix