CLOUD SAVES NOT WORKING

[Luceafear]

Seriously devs, it's been 5 years, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fix it.

[nedsin]

Word !!!

[Lobo]

As someone playing on Steam Deck and PC, they work perfectly fine if you take 5 minutes to google how to do it

[♡Bastard™]

Originally posted by Lobo:

As someone playing on Steam Deck and PC, they work perfectly fine if you take 5 minutes to google how to do it

As someone also playing on Steam Deck and PC, no it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ isn't. Cloud saves are supposed to be multi/cross platform (literally the whole point of a cloud save system), and if a game says it has 'Steam Cloud save functionality', when Steam says the cloud is 'synchronized', it should show you the same save game(s) on all platforms. GK does not. Despite having a save file in the cloud from the Deck, installing and booting the game up on my PC shows no save files, despite Steam saying the cloud is synced.

Having to go through the tiresome (and on Steam Deck, irritating af) annoyance of manually transferring files to local data storage - when it should already be available because that is what having cloud save functionality is for!! - means it is not "working perfectly fine". That is not what anyone who buys and plays a game on Steam that says it has cloud saves enabled expects or wants.

[Madavi]

Try this:

Settings>Properties>Compatibility>Toggle "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" on>Select "Proton Experimental" or another version of your choice from the drop-down list

You may have to start a new game, but it should take care of the Steam Cloud issue.

[Penguin]

what's the point if you have to start over lol

[Ragnaman]

Windows and Linux saves are a bit different, if you had a cloud save on windows, you will have to force the compatability layer (proton) on the steam deck (which is just opening properties of a game in steam and checking the compatability tab).

[Deozaan]

Thanks to those in this thread who actually posted a helpful answer instead of just saying to google it.

Threads like these have a funny way of becoming the top search result when searching for a solution.

[garbonzobeanboy]

Originally posted by Madavi:

Try this:

Settings>Properties>Compatibility>Toggle "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" on>Select "Proton Experimental" or another version of your choice from the drop-down list

You may have to start a new game, but it should take care of the Steam Cloud issue.

So would this show my deck save and my pc save, or neither?

[NickL255]

Originally posted by Ragnaman:

Windows and Linux saves are a bit different, if you had a cloud save on windows, you will have to force the compatability layer (proton) on the steam deck (which is just opening properties of a game in steam and checking the compatability tab).

No, the saves are identical. The problem is that the developer needs to properly configure the cloud save part, usually by configuring rootoverrides.