Saving game files from steam games?

Hey I have a question is it possible to save game files from steam. Example lets say both my batman arkham asylum and arkham city. Just in case i reformat or buy a new computer would like to have all the stuff i have now. if so how would i do so?

 

Copy Steamapps folder to an External HDD. Done(C:\Program files(X86)\steam\steamapps)

After reformat reverse the step.


Or you can do the long and tedious right click on the game in steam ---->Backup game files---> to an external drive( I.e. G: )or a CD/DVD. I would just copy steamapp folder same effect + you get your saves for valve games, and for third party game saves copy over your My Documents folder to the external as well.'

I just actually did this two days ago.lol

EDIT: if you choose the long way to back up. To reinstall the game just click on the steambackup.exe file in the game folder it creates.

 

Baka believes some of the steam games save files are saved under "My Games" inside "My Documents"

At least Baka thinks OP is asking about save game files and not transferring full games without redownloading ._.

 

Steam itself will let you back up and reinstall games with its own backup options, so you can copy your games to either an external hard drive or a series of DVD's. But Steam does not automatically back up your save files, mostly because each game has its own locations for these, often in your Documents folder. You'll have to look up where your save files are for each game you want to back up, and and manually transfer them.

Luckily, save files tend to be tiny compared to games themselves, usually no more than a few megabytes, if that.

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Now I am confused. I read it like he wanted to save the actual game files + saves.

Either way the way I described it is to back up both game saves and actual files so you don't have to redownload. As long as you copy over your My Documents folder and occasionally some games add their saves to the hidden AppData folder. You will be fine with game saves, and if you want to back up game files, use one of the two methods listed before.

 

I got just the thing for this.

I made a small guide to enable cloud saving on all of my games on Play-Connect, so here it is.

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I fallen in love with using cloud storage for my savegames.
Most Steam games does it, the newer Origin games does it but would it not be nice to have all your savegames synced to the cloud so you could access that savegame on all your computers?

If the answer to that question was YES! then this guide is for you.

First you got to have a PC running either Windows Vista or Windows 7, XP wont cut it.
If you got that then follow the steps below.

Step 1:
You need a DropBox account or a account to a similar service.
By default Dropbox gives you 2GB of free cloud storage, and then you get an additional 250MB for following their getting started tour .

Then you can get an additional 250MB for each user you invite to the service.
But dont sweat the invited user also gets a piece of the action, so +250MB to them.
There is a limit however, as the maximum extra storage is capped to 8GB but 2GB is more than enough.

So if you follow my referal link, and complete the Dropbox tour after you have registered then you get 2,5GB of free storage.

Referal link for extra 250MB.

Step 2:
Now that you registered that account we need to download the Dropbox client for Windows.
It should already been downloaded if you followed the tour but i will add the link just in case.

Download link.

You can also add your smartphone running Android,iOS or BlackBerry and also other operative systems like Mac or Linux to the service so you can sync files between them with ease.

Step 3:
Now you got to decide what savegame folders you want to sync to Dropbox.

Il start with the "My Games" folder under "C:\Users\DEagleson\Documents".
Just replace my username DEagleson with whatever your Windows Username is.

Now we need to use CMD or the console.
Just click the Windows key, and enter "CMD" into the search field.
( You can also locate it by clicking Windows key, then Programs > Accessories > CMD.)
Then once Windows shows you the CMD program, right click on it and select "Run as Administrator".
This is very important because we cannot make the symbolic link unless we get the permission needed by Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Step 4:
Now we will make the symbolic link.
First move your "My Games" folder away from your documents folder.
This is important because you cannot make the link if there is a folder there before you start.
I just move it to the desktop area.

Then we have to discover where the DropBox folder is located.
By default mine is located in the root of my Windows Username folder.

"C:\Users\DEagleson\Dropbox\"
As stated before just rename my username with your Windows username.

Now we combine the information we got in step 3 with the DropBox info in this step with the command needed to make the symbolic link.

The end result will be this.

Code:

mklink /D "C:\Users\DEagleson\Documents\My Games" "C:\Users\DEagleson\Dropbox\My Games"

Copy Paste this into the CMD window and then press enter.

If you do not get a error message when doing this the hurray you did it.

Step 5:
Finally we need to move the savegames into our DropBox folder.
Now go to your DropBox folder and move "My Games" into it.
The final result will be "C:\Users\DEagleson\Dropbox\My Games".

To confirm this is working properly go to your documents folder where My Games used to be and click on it.
Click on it and while it seems that the folder placement is the same we are now actually in our DropBox folder.

The DropBox applet down in the corner where Steam and Origin usually reside will now tell you that its syncing the savegames to your personal cloud storage.

Congratulations, you now got a cloud backup and syncing of your savegames.

Personally i started doing this because Skyrim, while being a Steamworks game does not do Cloud Saving.
With DropBox it now does that.

Being offline is not a problem either because DropBox will just sync your local copy to the cloud as soon as you got a working internet connection again.

Hope you found this guide helpful and as always stay nice and play hard. :3

 

Or you called use this software to move your game saves to a different computer or to a new installation of your OS.

GameSave Manager

I've used it a couple of times already and it's flawless so far, it also has DropBox support but I haven't tried that feature yet.

 

Why is it so hard for game designers to put the save game IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT SHOULD BE? %UserProfile%\Saved Games

It would make things so much easier. While having them saved to the cloud is nice, not every game is, so you're still hunting around.

Although great idea on using dropbox DEagleson, didn't consider that.

 

^^ this... no understanding.. they are trying to make it tougher..

 

Deagle stole my guide

I use drop box, also syncplicity works, also for symbolic links I have a great little program at home that I can link later that does all the hard work for you.

 

Steam Mover is awesome little program for auto creating symlinks for steam!
Steam Mover - traynier.com

 

Rawr now Mkelliny stole my program.

I have 2 of them actually, that one is one of the two.

 

lol I sorry Vicious.

 

oh snap thanks very informative and helpful.