Steam Saves pc restore, Help!
I accidently removed my audio drivers for my creative fatality headset or it was something similair, perhaps even worse the USB headset...setting. I've tried downloading them back, twice and it hasn't made a different, the headset still doesnt work.
Now I'm forced to system restore my pc back a day. Problem is that the last system checkpoint was when I installed dragon age.
I'm thinking about copying all the files to a cd, thus having my saved games intact. Is this possible?
Or better, can anyone help with my audio problem?
Now I'm forced to system restore my pc back a day. Problem is that the last system checkpoint was when I installed dragon age.
I'm thinking about copying all the files to a cd, thus having my saved games intact. Is this possible?
Or better, can anyone help with my audio problem?
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No one? Are we finally done with that crap? Can we get back to talking about general things in general discussion?
I think steam has a back up feature, I remember Kub using it a while ago? There was some kind of flaw to it like it wanted to stick all of the media in one session, which if you're going to burn it to DVD wouldn't work but if you're backing up to external it would. They may have fixed it, or Kub found another way around it.
>.<
Come on Vig, this isn't your blog.
Just kidding. :-)
OP:
Yeah, saving the save game files to a cd or harddrive should work. Apparently there's some issue with GTAIV and GFWL accounts (whatever those are) - but for most cases you should be fine. You can always google "transfer steam saved games" or "where are steam save games stored", etc - or just back up the whole "steamapps" folder and you won't have to re-download the games, I think, is what I read.
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25634849
http://www.hardforum.com/archive/index.php/t-1177165.html
All you have to do is rename the old Steam folder to something else, install Steam in the same location as the old install and then delete the new Steam folder and then change the old Steam folders name back to Steam.
Works like a treat!
Just make sure steam isnt running when you are renaming folders.
I started doing this a while back after my Steam folder was getting to around 80GB and was taking hours and hours to copy.
[for Vista, with no space between "C:" and "\". Kept giving me a smiley :-)]
(http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1016807)
Here's a somewhat comprehensive list of Steam games' save file locations (doesn't have Dragon Age on it though):
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=840657