First boot, existing save file?

[PaleBlueDot79]

I just purchased this on Steam, after having previously played it on Game Pass. I have a game save sitting there for Spyro 1, at 32%. I'm not sure if it has cross-save or not, but I can't find anything saying it does. Even if it does, that's not even close to my progress in the Game Pass copy. I can see that it seems to have troubles with losing saves, but gaining saves seems awfully weird. Anyone encountered anything like this?

[Maya-Neko]

Spyro uses 2 save file locations, for once the userdata-folder within the Steam-folder and another location in the local appdata folder. The second one is independant from the platform, since it's simply the go to for save files these days.

I would guess that they're trying to load the userdata-save file and if there's none, then loading the appdata-save file instead. Uninstalling steam might delete the userdata folder, so you can think of it as a backup, since steam won't delete the appdata-stuff.

Also cross-save is something that explains how different platforms (like PC and consoles) work together, not necessarily between different PC-launchers. It's actually rather common to have this happen on PC, as most devs usually save their files independant from the platform.