So i'm switching to a new PC, my question is will the save files for my games still appear or will it all be a clean slate?
Switching PCs and steam save files...
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I've not done it personally but as far as I understand, games which support steam cloud will carry your save games over but all the rest will either be saved somewhere under my documents or in the relevant game folder under steamapps
I accidentally uninstalled Steam once, taking away all of my installed games. After reinstalling everything, all of my games with Steam Cloud enabled started correctly, complete with gamesaves, key bindings and graphics settings.
I can definitely attest to the system working.
I can definitely attest to the system working.
Not all games are steam cloud enabled. The ones that are will let you keep your autosaves and a few other types of saves, but even steam cloud games sometimes save "standard" saves to the hard disk.
You'll be playing from a clean slate with the majority of your games unless you recover your old hard drive and reimport.
You'll be playing from a clean slate with the majority of your games unless you recover your old hard drive and reimport.
You can make a backup disc of your STEAM data (game saves) in the "LIBRARY" section of your STEAM client. Just right click any game and select "BACKUP GAME DATA". At least I think that's the option. "BACKUP" something or other. You can save it to a disc I believe as well so you can move it over.
All that said, I've never actually done this beyond the backing up portion so I don't know how easy or difficult it is to do this. Good luck though. I'd suggest spending a little time on STEAM's forums asking for help.
All that said, I've never actually done this beyond the backing up portion so I don't know how easy or difficult it is to do this. Good luck though. I'd suggest spending a little time on STEAM's forums asking for help.
If you are tossing out the old PC why not pull the HDD and put it in the new rig as a slave drive? once you find and move all the save files over you could wipe the drive clean and use it for backups or as a my documents. I keep my docs on a seperate drive just incase i need to format the primary because the OS needed reinstalling, never have to worry about losing all the documents that way.