Does Dark Souls 3 save the game data on steam cloud?

[Vitu]

Dark Souls always save your game data using steam cloud, but Dark Souls 2 didn't. If you want to keep your characters and stuff in your new computer you must get the data on a USB. My question is: Dark Souls 3 has the same problem of DS2 or does it save the game data with Steam Cloud? Thanks and sorry for my bad english :D

[Ace]

DS3 doesn't have Steam Cloud Sync.

[Vitu]

Originally posted by Ace:

DS3 doesn't have Steam Cloud Sync.

Really? damn it. Thanks mate

[Gullilog]

Easy fix:
1. Go to C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming
2. Move "DarkSoulsIII" folder to Dropbox for Example C:\Users\[Username]\Dropbox\CloudSaves
3. open command prompt and enter:
a) cd %APPDATA%
b) mklink -J DarkSoulsIII C:\Users\[Username]\Dropbox\CloudSaves\DarkSoulsIII

You should now have a symlink from your Appdata folder to your dropbox dark souls 3 save folder. You may think of it as two separate folders that are always in sync (because it's actually the same folder but it looks like 2) and the game will think that nothing changed.
Now you can enjoy your savefiles being automatically synced to dropbox every time they are changed and as a bonus you even get file version control via dropbox. That means if you ever get "invalid data" you can go to your dropbox page and restore an earlier version of your save.

[Vitu]

Originally posted by Ellem N. O'Pee:

Easy fix:
1. Go to C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming
2. Move "DarkSoulsIII" folder to Dropbox for Example C:\Users\[Username]\Dropbox\CloudSaves
3. open command prompt and enter:
a) cd %APPDATA%
b) mklink -J DarkSoulsIII C:\Users\[Username]\Dropbox\CloudSaves\DarkSoulsIII

You should now have a symlink from your Appdata folder to your dropbox dark souls 3 save folder. You may think of it as two separate folders that are always in sync (because it's actually the same folder but it looks like 2) and the game will think that nothing changed.
Now you can enjoy your savefiles being automatically synced to dropbox every time they are changed and as a bonus you even get file version control via dropbox. That means if you ever get "invalid data" you can go to your dropbox page and restore an earlier version of your save.

Wow thanks man I really appreciate your help I will try it :D

[Axeclash]

It's a slash, and not a dash for the mklink argument.
use mklink /J, then the rest. this works.

[*Crimson-Y]

Sorry to ask this so much later, I did this and it worked correctly, thank you.

Now I'd like to know what happens if I do it on my two computers, will it make it so the file on cloud (onedrive for me) replace the old file on my second pc, or will it take the old file from the pc when I open it and overwrite the cloud save even if it's more recent?

[folko1]

Originally posted by Schorsch:

Easy fix:
1. Go to C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming
2. Move "DarkSoulsIII" folder to Dropbox for Example C:\Users\[Username]\Dropbox\CloudSaves
3. open command prompt and enter:
a) cd %APPDATA%
b) mklink -J DarkSoulsIII C:\Users\[Username]\Dropbox\CloudSaves\DarkSoulsIII

You should now have a symlink from your Appdata folder to your dropbox dark souls 3 save folder. You may think of it as two separate folders that are always in sync (because it's actually the same folder but it looks like 2) and the game will think that nothing changed.
Now you can enjoy your savefiles being automatically synced to dropbox every time they are changed and as a bonus you even get file version control via dropbox. That means if you ever get "invalid data" you can go to your dropbox page and restore an earlier version of your save.

This sounds too good to be true but I believe it is true. I will try this later. But one part I do not understand, So you need to move the DarkSoulsIII folder from your roaming? If that's so then how will the save will remain in roaming if it has been moved to the dropbox?

[folko1]

Originally posted by Vitu:

Dark Souls always save your game data using steam cloud, but Dark Souls 2 didn't. If you want to keep your characters and stuff in your new computer you must get the data on a USB. My question is: Dark Souls 3 has the same problem of DS2 or does it save the game data with Steam Cloud? Thanks and sorry for my bad english :D

Replying to this so this will be saved in my comments history in steam app because this post has useful info I will try later.

[DeBlue]

WARNING! I tried this and lost my save files. I did literally the exact same thing as said along with the change of "-J" to "/J" command. Thank you OP, thank you for wastining many hours of my game time in this game.

I'm truly pissed of and annoyed.

[Corrodias]

I recommend the use of a backup tool, such as this one. The default interval is 15 minutes but is configurable, and note that it does not immediately back up but rather waits until after the interval has passed one to make its first backup. Also note that if you have used DS3 with more than one Steam account, it's only going to backup the saves in the first account's folder, so you should click the "open dark souls 3 saves folder" button, go up one level, and verify that you have only one folder, or that it's choosing the correct one based on your Steam ID.

https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/16/

The code on GitHub is a little bit newer, with the ability to specify a backup location. If you want that, you'll need either to compile it yourself (easy enough, with Visual Studio, Community edition) or trust me enough to use this .exe that I compiled myself: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By_du8NjegqCS0hZRmtlal9wNUU
(You might also need the .config file from the nexusmods release.)

[Zathron]

Originally posted by Axeclash:

It's a slash, and not a dash for the mklink argument.
use mklink /J, then the rest. this works.

Worked just fine for me, using OneDrive instead of Dropbox :)

[lrbisolo]

Are you f** kidding me? I played all Dark Souls versions, once since DK2 there is Steam Cloud... obviously I do not worried about the saves when I formated my PC yesterday. This is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ step backwards! Congratulations! At least this should be an achievement too!

[Visuwyg]

I wish I knew that some games don't have cloud saves BEFORE I formatted my PC and lost my 37 hour save =_=

What a dumb oversight...

[shef_ratte]

Originally posted by Schorsch:

Easy fix:
1. Go to C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming
2. Move "DarkSoulsIII" folder to Dropbox for Example C:\Users\[Username]\Dropbox\CloudSaves
3. open command prompt and enter:
a) cd %APPDATA%
b) mklink -J DarkSoulsIII C:\Users\[Username]\Dropbox\CloudSaves\DarkSoulsIII

You should now have a symlink from your Appdata folder to your dropbox dark souls 3 save folder. You may think of it as two separate folders that are always in sync (because it's actually the same folder but it looks like 2) and the game will think that nothing changed.
Now you can enjoy your savefiles being automatically synced to dropbox every time they are changed and as a bonus you even get file version control via dropbox. That means if you ever get "invalid data" you can go to your dropbox page and restore an earlier version of your save.

Tried this method. kinda works, but causes issues with saving that lead to constant game crashes...

[Inferno]

I do not formatted my hard since i have installed ds3, but i have copied my saves manually. Just do it every time i close the game, its not so hard to do, dont be lazy and it will be ok