Hi all,
I played the shadow of the tombs raider back in August and got to about 25% of it. Today I wanted to play it and thought I'd be able to just continue, but I was wrong. First, steam was saying the game was "out of sync" so I clicked it and it said it was "up to date". Launched the game and it's almost from scratch, like 1 %, so me panik. Looked into the saved data files and they have all these .dat files with one that is a cloud one. Looked online and found a post where someone said I can download my old saves and add them to the folder. Sure enough, downloaded the .dat files for the correct date, but they have reaaaaally long names that have the paths to where they were saved then at the end of each name was the correct name (blahblahblahlinuxsomethingsave206.dat for example). Tried two ways,
One: removed the existing .dat files and replaced them with the ones I downloaded (with their long names)and launched the game. Same thing. I was watching the new ones get created and take over the old ones. Nope, still 1% in the game.
Two: same as one, but I renamed the files to match the existing ones which I removed and replaced. So, save202.dat, save206.dat, profile.dat.....etc Same thing. Am I doing this wrong? How do I go about it? I really don't want to start over on the game. I run Linux, if that makes any difference. Thank you in advance.
Are you running the Linux version or the Windows version of Tomb Raider? At least for Tomb Raider 2013 the Windows version is superior. So maybe you were running the Windows version back then and are now on the Linux version or vice versa. Their save files are not compatible with each other.
To switch versions go to the game's settings and set the compatibility tool to Proton for the Windows version or to the Linux runtime for the Linux version.
This has something to do with what I have going on. And I do believe it's the Linux ones since the folder's name is something something Feral which is the name of the folks who made the game work on Linux I think. Also, in my steam cloud saves, I do see windows saves and Linux saves. The old saves are the Linux ones, and the saves I want to play are those Linux ones. The ones they are very new (the ones I don't want) are the windows ones. ~~So, does this mean I have the windows version installed and I will need to install the Linux ones so I can get my saves? That hinges on how to get either one.~~ scratch all of that. I'm going to uncheck the "compatibility" check box to switch to the Linux version then. Because I checked the box today because it was complaining about my Linux distro not being good enough or some shit like that.