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Your Elden Ring saves should now be safe from Steam Cloud issuesA sync problem led to some losing progress
A sync problem led to some losing progress
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“Under certain conditions, save data may not sync properly with the Steam Cloud in the PC version ofElden Ring,“the game’s Twitterwarned on Friday night. It pointed toa support pagewhich explained that when prompted to resolve the conflict, you have to carefully check the timestamps lest you lose your newest save. The page even advised manually backing up your local saves.
Elden boy Ed says he saw this problem last week and was prompted to pick his saves. Thankfully, he chose wisely. But I’ve seen quite a few people lamenting losing hours of progress.
The game’s Twitter followed up on Sunday with apparent news of a fix:
An update for the#Steamclient has been released which should prevent the issue of conflicting local and cloud save data. Please update your Steam client to the latest version.— ELDEN RING (@ELDENRING)March 5, 2022
An update for the#Steamclient has been released which should prevent the issue of conflicting local and cloud save data. Please update your Steam client to the latest version.
I assume that’sthis Steam update, which does have quite a few changes with Steam Cloud bits. Steam should automatically check for an update and go to install it. If not, go to the ‘Steam’ dropdown menu in Steam and hit that “Check for Steam Client Updates…” option.
The PC version of Elden Ring has also suffered problems withperformance, crashes, and assorted frustrations. They’ve said they’re working on fixes. A shame this marred the launch, because the game’s a good’un. Ed’sElden Ring reviewcalled it “an unmissable journey through the most impressive open world to date”.
