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Article #697927Re: Moved Steam and GOG to Win10 from Win7 (dual boot) and games are listed but not game files
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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 03:53
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 03:53
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 03:16:55 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) wrote: ><noemail...@noaddress.com> wrote: >>Steam in Win10 says I am 52 hours into Skyrim but the load a game >>option is disabled. Only start a new game is enabled. I am afraid to >>do that. > >Skyrim puts its save game files in: > > C:\Users\<yourname>\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves > >where <yourname> is your user name on Windows. So find that directory >on your Windows 7 drive and copy everything it to the location above on >your Windows 10 drive. It'll probaby easier if you boot into Windows 10, >search through all your drives until you find Windows 7 save files and >then copy the files to directory named above. > >>GOG: Installed GOG Galaxy but although all my games are listed, GOG >>is downloading them all and I have to start a new game (such as >>Witcher 3) also. For some stupid reason (probably due to curiosity) I >>started a new game and that is just what happened. I have to go >>through training all over again. I know I was way into it. >> >>Where are my save games? > >For Witcher 3 they're stored in: > > C:\Users\<yourname>\Documents\The Witcher 3 > >You can copy them over the same with as with Skyrim. > >Other game may store their save files in other places. You can try >using Google to find out where. > > Ross Ridge *---- With Steam and Skyrim, I messed around in Properties/Updates/ and noticed that "Enable Steam Cloud Synchronization..." was disabled and saw that it said "View Settings/Downloads+Cloud to reenable the Steam Cloud for your account.". I exited Steam and there were my save games! I cannot belive it's been since 2012 since I saved a game! Doom is working now with a save game but it is not where I remember I left off and there is a slot with the difficulty "Hurt me plenty" which I would never do. I will try your suggestions. Be right back :-) -pw -pw
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