GOG and STEAM Save Files

[Alexis]

Is there a way to separate the saves? I've had Ion Fury on GOG for a while, got it on steam summer sale to support the game. Both versions share my saves, but I'd like to know if I can prevent that or not. And if not, oh well. It's not a life or death situation, lmao.

[Retodon8]

That’s strange. Those are completely separate platforms with different installation paths, and if applicable(not even sure), separate cloud saves. I don’t see how they would mix up saves, unless you specifically play around with things. Are you using Mapster32 instead of the regular executables maybe?

[Alexis]

Originally posted by Retodon8:

That’s strange. Those are completely separate platforms with different installation paths, and if applicable(not even sure), separate cloud saves. I don’t see how they would mix up saves, unless you specifically play around with things. Are you using Mapster32 instead of the regular executables maybe?

Nope. I hit run in either application, and they have the same saves.

[Retodon8]

I personally don’t, but I know some other people have both versions as well. Hopefully they can help you figure it out.

[Alexis]

Originally posted by Retodon8:

I personally don’t, but I know some other people have both versions as well. Hopefully they can help you figure it out.

Thanks though, bb

[dwtietz]

It makes sense that the cloud based saved games would end up in both, despite both cloud systems being separated from each other - This is because both use the same folder to store your local copy of the save game files (%appdata%\Ion Fury). When the local save game files get synched to the cloud (GOG or Steam) then I'd imagine that the files from one would show up in the other.

I can think of one or two ways that this could probably be accomplished, but they both suck:

1) Keep manual backup copies of the %appdata%\Ion Fury\ folder for each platform, containing only the save game files that you want for each respective platform and then inject these files into the original location (after removing everything that was there) prior to launching the platform of choice.

2) Create a second user account and run each application as separate users.

I sort of have an opposite problem myself, I want my save game files to be shared by the cloud connection between Windows and Linux (both via Steam), but they don't get shared this way for some reason. :'(

[Retodon8]

dwtietz to the rescue.
Ah, that makes sense, I hadn't considered the Windows user folder structure being used and shared by both systems, figured everything was inside the respective game installation folder structures.

Now that I think about it, I've made that mistake before. I backed up whole software folders to make sure not to lose anything before reinstalling my computer, then missing lots of stuff anyway, because it was put inside the user folder instead.

Hmm, I would imagine most people would actually prefer sharing Ion Fury saves, just like dwtietz would, so this setup is probable generally a good thing. Mintz, you could make a batch file that renames the IF folder back and forth every time you start either version, automate the first solution a little bit, but that would still not be very pretty.

[Alexis]

I think I'll just keep it as is, lol. Like I said, though, not a huge deal. Thanks guys, anyway