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I lost days of play time to a stream cloud sync error (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been playing a lot of Fallout 4 over the holidays. I started and finished the Nuka World DLC (killed all the baddies), made it to level 90, etc.

Today I was playing on my Deck as the battery got a little low (11%) so I saved my game, exited the game, and went to shut down.

As it was shutting down, the Deck displayed a message, something like "Syncing to Steam Cloud" as the logo was spinning.

A few hours later, on a full charge, I booted it back up, started Fallout 4 again and... some of my old saves are there, but only about 30% of them, and critically not the most recent ones.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? Is this a known issue? Can I fix it, or report it? I've basically lost interest in finishing the game now.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This won't help with this game, but there's a decky extension called steamback that keeps backup saves of your games.

It automatically makes a backup of your save data everytime you start a game, and keeps a few copies so you can revert if something happens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ludusavi is also a great option for save backups. It’s not quite as integrated so you have to run it manually, but it does work on other platforms too (like Windows) and is very customizable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking of something like this actually. A shell script that rsync's the save files to my home server on startup or something. I've not heard of "Decky", so I'll look that up before I start trying to roll my own, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Decky loader is a plugin store/manager for Steam Deck. Let's you retheme steam deck ui, change startup animations, gives advanced performance controls, and a ton of other stuff. I'd definitely consider it mandatory for getting the best steam deck experience.