HAVE ARK STEAM CLOUD ?

[Jefrrix]

Hey, my question is have ark steam cloud on single player ?? Or how save world ? i must reinstall pc :(

[zerassar]

No there is no cloud saving.

Just copy the entire ark folder to your new computer.

Alternatively if you don't want to copy the FULL folder to the new PC.
Your saved games, achievements, hair styles, SP maps etc. are all saved here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved

[zerassar]

On a side note, if you have a game that you want to have a cloud save for that does not currently support it natively then you can make it yourself using something like Microsoft Onedrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox.

Create a symbolic link at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved

And redirect that into your Dropbox location. Something like:
C:\Users\<username>\Dropbox\GameSaves\Ark

Symbolic links in Windows 10 are called folder junctions and can be created in cmd prompt.
Copy the folder away before doing this.

mklink /j <sourceFolder> <destination>

mklink /j "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved" "C:\Users\myUserName\Dropbox\GameSaves\Ark"

After this is done you should be able to copy the contents of the old "Saved" folder that you backed up earlier into either the source or destination folders. Effectively they are the same thing now. Just keep that in mind when you delete them.

[Jefrrix]

Thanks a LOT !!!

[zerassar]

Just a note for yourself or anyone else who tries to do this.

If you sync multiple computers using Ark, and then try to play using a different steam account on each PC. Its likely both instances of Ark will try to save at the same time and the results of which may ♥♥♥♥ things up.

The reason being is that Ark keeps the save files for the PC it is on. It is not separated based on steam accounts at ALL.

So this is really only possible for single users wanting to play or transfer files on multiple PC's. Not concurrently though.

[Jefrrix]

Okay, thanks for info.

[Domingez78]

but how do I copy the game files to my new PC

[Auakopf]

Originally posted by Domingez78:

but how do I copy the game files to my new PC

Buy/use an USB stick, copy the files from the current PC to the stick, then use the stick after the reinstall and copy it from the stick to the newly installed PC into the corresponding location. Or use an external drive for this action.

[zerassar]

Originally posted by Domingez78:

but how do I copy the game files to my new PC

We literally told you above where they are stored inside the game.