Any STEAM gamers out there?

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/18/2020 at 14:03 • Filed to: None

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I have a question about backing up. My boys got new PCs and we are working on migrating from their old machines. If I try to do a physical backup through the app, it looks like it is backing up all the games themselves in a file that is over 100GB. I’m really only interested in the progress. Steam Cloud sync is turned on, but I don’t know if the specific games they play are utilizing it. I suppose I can look that up.

Have a steam-powered car for your time. Thanks. 

facw > ttyymmnn 04/18/2020 at 14:23

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Yeah you don’t want to backup your library just to get the saves (I don’t actually think they will be included in the library backup anyway, except perhaps for things that already in Steam Cloud).

Generally games are going to put their saves in My Documents or more rarely in %APP DATA%. If you have their Documents folder backed up, they’re probably fine. Beyond that, I would just look at what games they care about, and make sure those saves are somewhere expected.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 04/18/2020 at 14:23

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You should get plenty of good 4-1-1 here.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 04/18/2020 at 14:30

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https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

The following instructions are a simple way to move your Steam installation along with your games:

Exit the Steam client application.

Browse to the Steam installation folder for the Steam installation you would like to move (C:\Program Files\Steam by default).

Delete all of the files and folders except the SteamApps & Userdata folders and Steam.exe

Cut and paste the whole Steam folder to the new location, for example: D:\Games\Steam\

Launch Steam and log into your account.

If you only copy the Userdata folders, Steam should re-download everything else. Be Warned:

Please ensure that you have your Steam login name and password before following this procedure. Also ensure that your account is linked to your current email address, so that you can reset your password if necessary.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > ttyymmnn 04/18/2020 at 14:31

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You can check to see if a game uses the Steam Cloud for its saves by clicking the information button on the far right of the library. Look for “Cloud Saves”.

If you figure out a game doesn’t have cloud saves, do a quick search for it and see where it saves game data. Some will save to your My Documents folder, some will save to a folder in %APPDATA%.

Transferring games over only saves installation time, not game save data.

jimz > ttyymmnn 04/18/2020 at 14:49

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I have a (somewhat) smallish SSD as my boot drive, so I told Steam to re-direct my Steam Library to a second big ass hard drive (pointed the Steam library location to E:\SteamLibrary.) that way it’s independent of the installation of the Steam software itself.

if you’re just looking to back up the save game data it may be in your appdata folder like facw said. 

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 04/18/2020 at 14:55

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Thanks. We’ve spent the past hour or so going through all of their game clients and making sure we have logins and passwords, correct email addresses, and 2FA where possible. 

ttyymmnn > winterlegacy, here 'till the end 04/18/2020 at 14:55

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Thanks. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jimz 04/18/2020 at 14:59

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BAHD; I like it.

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > ttyymmnn 04/18/2020 at 15:13

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If their current machines are up to date windows 10 installs and you’re not experiencing any weirdness at the OS level, windows 10 handles new hardware quite well. You should probably be able to get away with just moving the OS drive to their new motherboard, without problems . There will be some installing and updating on frst boot, likely taking a bit of time. Possibly even windows updates will be required.

O bviously if their old OS drive is being replaced with something faster/newer/larger/better then you can always use the drive duplication software that comes with most modern SSDs.

As for your specific Steam question, I can’t provide insight there, sorry.

ttyymmnn > facw 04/18/2020 at 15:30

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Can you tell me what you mean by %APPDATA%?

ttyymmnn > PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 04/18/2020 at 15:31

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Old machines are W7 (which is sort of what precipitated all of this) and new machines are W10. 

facw > ttyymmnn 04/18/2020 at 15:47

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C:\Users\\AppData

%APPDATA% is an evironment variable that points there (actually to the R oaming sub-directory , though stuff can be in Local as well). This is where applications are supposed to store their settings, though especially for games, they normally go somewhere in Documents instead. But for example I have my Cities: Skylines saves in C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines\Saves or my Secret of Monkey Island saves in C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition

ttyymmnn > facw 04/18/2020 at 16:14

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Thanks,. It actually turns out that all but one of their Steam games are supported by the Steam Cloud, and that one game, Rainbow Six Siege, is easy to find. 

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ttyymmnn 04/18/2020 at 17:21

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Only some games support cloud saves, right click it in their library and select "properties" and if the game supports it there'll be a tick box somewhere that says "use steam cloud"

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > facw 04/18/2020 at 17:22

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Cities supports steam cloud anyways though

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ttyymmnn 04/18/2020 at 17:23

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Oooh... I’ve tried manually transferring save files from other Clancy games only to have it not work. I think they use multiple files or something.

ttyymmnn > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 04/18/2020 at 17:53

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Well, I guess we’ll just have to see how it goes. Any advice?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ttyymmnn 04/18/2020 at 20:27

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The TC game I tried to back up was Ghost Recon. The save files I found in My Documents only carried over my profile and settings, but not my progress. The game must save that somewhere more obscure. If Rainbow Six was made by the same team it’s probably going to be a similar story

ttyymmnn > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 04/18/2020 at 22:04

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Thanks. I’ll hit the Google.