Can i transfer progress from Microsoft store version of game over to steam version?

[Doug Dimmadome]

Tried out No Man's Sky on Game Pass for PC and ended up buying the game. now i'm 100 hours in and just realized the game has VR support, however the windows store version gets hung up and crashes when loading the game in vr. i've gotten as far as warping into my system and then the game freezes and QTD. is there any way to transfer my progress over to the steam version? i don't want to lose my living ship and freighter

[Azure Fang]

The saves are stored in the same location for both versions - c:\users\<profile name>\appdata\HelloGames\NMS - but the save folder in ..\NMS\ may be different based on store of origin. Steam saves are stored in ..\NMS\st_<steamID64> - for example, my folder is ..\NMS\st_76561198028055986 as my SteamID64 is 76561198028055986[steamrep.com]. Simply renaming whatever folder is used for the Win Store version to "st_76561198021229046 (your SteamID64[steamrep.com]) should theoretically work to pass the save to the Steam version.

[Captain.Jartyk]

引用自 Azure Fang：

The saves are stored in the same location for both versions
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That is not correct, at least not on my version of NMS on Xbox PC Beta that I have installed.

The save files for NMS on Xbox are located in a completely different place in the Users folder
C: \ Users \ (name) \ AppData \ Local \ Packages \ HelloGames.NoMansSky .... \ SystemAppData \

But you can not transfer them to the Steam version and think that it would work, because they are saved in a completely different format.

[Azure Fang]

引用自 Captain.Jartyk：

引用自 Azure Fang：

The saves are stored in the same location for both versions
.
.

That is not correct, at least not on my version of NMS on Xbox PC Beta that I have installed.

The save files for NMS on Xbox are located in a completely different place in the Users folder
C: \ Users \ (name) \ AppData \ Local \ Packages \ HelloGames.NoMansSky .... \ SystemAppData \

But you can not transfer them to the Steam version and think that it would work, because they are saved in a completely different format.

Ah, I see. I wasn't aware the Win Store version was actually the Xbox PC version (which makes no sense to me). What's the file structure in the save folder?

[Captain.Jartyk]

引用自 Azure Fang：

Ah, I see. I wasn't aware the Win Store version was actually the Xbox PC version (which makes no sense to me). What's the file structure in the save folder?

Under that path are a bunch of folders and files, with very cryptic names, consisting of a long series of numbers, the size is also about only 1/10 of Steam's files. why I know they are the save files, is that they are the only ones that change when I save the game in NMS (gamepass version).

[Azure Fang]

引用自 Captain.Jartyk：

引用自 Azure Fang：

Ah, I see. I wasn't aware the Win Store version was actually the Xbox PC version (which makes no sense to me). What's the file structure in the save folder?

Under that path are a bunch of folders and files, with very cryptic names, consisting of a long series of numbers, the size is also about only 1/10 of Steam's files. why I know they are the save files, is that they are the only ones that change when I save the game in NMS (gamepass version).

Those sound like the cache files that are also present in the Steam/GOG saves. Are there not "mf_save.hg", "save.hg" and "storage.hg" files present?

[Captain.Jartyk]

引用自 Azure Fang：

Those sound like the cache files that are also present in the Steam/GOG saves. Are there not "mf_save.hg", "save.hg" and "storage.hg" files present?

No, they are not there, at least not with those names, the problem is that most files there have very long cryptic names consisting of random numbers and letters.

[Azure Fang]

引用自 Captain.Jartyk：

引用自 Azure Fang：

Those sound like the cache files that are also present in the Steam/GOG saves. Are there not "mf_save.hg", "save.hg" and "storage.hg" files present?

No, they are not there, at least not with those names, the problem is that most files there have very long cryptic names consisting of random numbers and letters.

More Win Store encryption shenanigans, I suppose. It's really unfortunate. Disregard my past posts then, they only apply to Steam/GOG.

[Fails A Lot]

Ok, so I'm not sure this is going to come out properly because I only do English, but this is the first post that I found on Google when looking for this problem and have a solution.

For this I had started and saved a game on the Steam version just to have the folders in place.

Windows Save files are HERE: C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\HelloGames.NoMansSky_bs190hzg1sesy\SystemAppData\wgs\ --- in this folder you will see 't' and then a bunch of random numbers/letters. Go into the random numbers/letters. Then sort by 'time' to get the latest save that you want (makes it easiest to copy)
Inside this folder should be 3 files, a container.RANDOM_NUMBER, And 2 files that also have random numbers.

One of the random number files will be 1KB in size, this file is going to become mf_save#.hg
The other file should be more than 1KB, this file is going to become save#.hg

You simply copy and rename the files from this location to the 'steam' save location -- C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\st_########

The above worked for me! Shout out to https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1atru4a/save_file_location_for_xbox_install_on_windows_11/ for showing the way to the actual save files.

[fluttershash]

引用自 Fails A Lot：

You simply copy and rename the files from this location to the 'steam' save location -- C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\st_########

The above worked for me! Shout out to https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1atru4a/save_file_location_for_xbox_install_on_windows_11/ for showing the way to the actual save files.

This solution worked for me too, thanks a lot dude!