Multiple PCs. Syncing game progress across them?

[Sambol]

G'day guys.

 

I've got multiple PCs that I game on. I have a mid range gaming laptop (ROG Zephyrus Ryzen 7 6800HS/ 3060), A Gaming PC (10th gen i9/3080) and a ROG Ally. I also have a decent media server running Unraid, etc if that helps.

 

Sometimes I play on my desktop for a month or two without touching the other 2. Sometimes I'll briefly pickup the Ally for a game either handheld, or on the TV. And rarely, I'll also use my laptop for gaming when away from home.

 

I play 90% through steam. Various games such as Satisfactory, Supreme Commander, Fallout 4, Forza, Minecraft, etc.

 

What I want to achieve is to be able to seamlessly swap between PCs and pick up my save games. I live in Australia, so our internet connections aren't the fastest (currently fastest I get is 60mbit down and 25 Up at home) in case that matters.

 

Is there an easy solution to this? I've never been in a situation where this has been necessary before, but now I've got a kid, and free time is sparse. I'm also a lot older now (37), and have a better paying job, so can finally afford solutions I desperately wanted when I was younger.

 

A few ideas I had were:

- Manually telling each computer and each game to save games into a folder on my OneDrive account. 

- If that didn't work, perhaps mapping a share on my Unraid server and telling them to save there? (My home LAN is Very fast. 10gb wired everywhere and Wifi6 everywhere else)

- Perhaps there's software to help? Maybe a docker container that syncs them all?

- Maybe steam has a setting I don't know about that can accomplish this?

- Setup a Gaming server that does all the heavy lifting and use the pcs as simple heads. I have a 3080 in my server so with minimal changes, it could be a great gaming Virtual PC.

 

Time is precious with a 2 year old, So I'm hoping that I can be at least steered in the right direction, so I don't waste countless hours going down the wrong rabbit hole.

 

Any help would be great. Thanks

[SONYSIKE]

You're going to want to save to the cloud and not local (if not doing so already). The switch should be seamless as long as the saves are to the game's cloud storage and not your own. Once you switch over to the pc you want to play on, select the save that is on the cloud. This is my take on it, may or may not be as seamless as you want it to be.

[PDifolco]

12 minutes ago, Sambol said:

G'day guys.

 

I've got multiple PCs that I game on. I have a mid range gaming laptop (ROG Zephyrus Ryzen 7 6800HS/ 3060), A Gaming PC (10th gen i9/3080) and a ROG Ally. I also have a decent media server running Unraid, etc if that helps.

 

Sometimes I play on my desktop for a month or two without touching the other 2. Sometimes I'll briefly pickup the Ally for a game either handheld, or on the TV. And rarely, I'll also use my laptop for gaming when away from home.

 

I play 90% through steam. Various games such as Satisfactory, Supreme Commander, Fallout 4, Forza, Minecraft, etc.

 

What I want to achieve is to be able to seamlessly swap between PCs and pick up my save games. I live in Australia, so our internet connections aren't the fastest (currently fastest I get is 60mbit down and 25 Up at home) in case that matters.

 

Is there an easy solution to this? I've never been in a situation where this has been necessary before, but now I've got a kid, and free time is sparse. I'm also a lot older now (37), and have a better paying job, so can finally afford solutions I desperately wanted when I was younger.

 

A few ideas I had were:

- Manually telling each computer and each game to save games into a folder on my OneDrive account. 

- If that didn't work, perhaps mapping a share on my Unraid server and telling them to save there? (My home LAN is Very fast. 10gb wired everywhere and Wifi6 everywhere else)

- Perhaps there's software to help? Maybe a docker container that syncs them all?

- Maybe steam has a setting I don't know about that can accomplish this?

- Setup a Gaming server that does all the heavy lifting and use the pcs as simple heads. I have a 3080 in my server so with minimal changes, it could be a great gaming Virtual PC.

 

Time is precious with a 2 year old, So I'm hoping that I can be at least steered in the right direction, so I don't waste countless hours going down the wrong rabbit hole.

 

Any help would be great. Thanks

You don't use Steam Cloud  ??

[Sambol]

2 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

You don't use Steam Cloud  ??

Never heard of it. I used to game very heavily when I was younger (from about 6yo to 20yo) but then I was very poor and girls and cars swayed my interests. I got back into gaming a little bit about 5 years ago after a 12 year out of it. Everything is very different, and between working long hours and a marriage, then a baby, I struggle to keep up with all the advancements.  Last time I truly had free time to be a genuine "enthusiast" as back when dial up internet was first coming onto the scene in the 90s. 

 

That said, now you've mentioned it, I'll do some research. Sometimes I just need a direction to head in, to save me wasting time trying to figure out what words google needs to show me the right solution.

 

Thanks

[Issac Zachary]

SteamCloud sounds the best.

 

I wonder if there's a way to move the AppData folder to any cloud service (e.g. OneDrive) maybe perhaps by regedit manipulation. That could possibly work, or cause a lot of problems.

[PDifolco]

6 minutes ago, Sambol said:

Never heard of it. I used to game very heavily when I was younger (from about 6yo to 20yo) but then I was very poor and girls and cars swayed my interests. I got back into gaming a little bit about 5 years ago after a 12 year out of it. Everything is very different, and between working long hours and a marriage, then a baby, I struggle to keep up with all the advancements.  Last time I truly had free time to be a genuine "enthusiast" as back when dial up internet was first coming onto the scene in the 90s. 

 

That said, now you've mentioned it, I'll do some research. Sometimes I just need a direction to head in, to save me wasting time trying to figure out what words google needs to show me the right solution.

 

Thanks

It's a mostly defaultmatic Steam feature...

[dilpickle]

Steam solved this a long time ago. Its enabled by default as far as I know. 

[Mark Kaine]

On 11/29/2023 at 12:26 AM, Sambol said:

Never heard of it

it saves your "saves" online, if u log in with any computer it'll download the save and you can keep going from where u left off. 

 

its a standard feature, since i wanna say ~20years...

 

 

However, much older and more reliable is just copying your saves on an USB stick so have them wherever you need them.

 

 

 

yes - do some research,  where folders and such are (its *not* standardized funny enough) 

 

pc wiki is a good source for pretty much any game for example.  

[Mark Kaine]

On 11/29/2023 at 12:08 AM, Sambol said:

I play 90% through steam. Various games such as Satisfactory, Supreme Commander, Fallout 4, Forza, Minecraft, etc.

then you should already know/have steam cloud saves, because its enabled by default. 

 

On 11/29/2023 at 12:08 AM, Sambol said:

Manually telling each computer and each game to save games into a folder on my OneDrive account. 

- If that didn't work, perhaps mapping a share on my Unraid server and telling them to save there? (My home LAN is Very fast. 10gb wired everywhere and Wifi6 everywhere else)

.... that's exactly what steam cloud does automatically,  no user interaction required