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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s Steam Cloud Save Syncing Is Killing My Internet (www.forbes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Hairyblue@kbin.social to c/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

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The more I play Baldur’s Gate 3, the more fun I am having, but as time has gone on, the more I find that the game is somehow breaking both Steam and my entire household internet.

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[–] Skeptic043@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I noticed at the start of the final act that my save folder had ballooned to 4.2 GB which seemed a bit outrageous to me. After a bit of digging, I found that for some reason if you play on 2 separate machines (steam deck and a desktop PC for example), the game was failing to replace your old saves with the new ones when switching, rather syncing the new saves made while leaving the old ones in place.

After manually deleting the saves and setting quick and auto save limits at 5, cloud syncing is infinitely faster due to a vastly reduced size. You do have to go in and delete all your old saves each time you swap platforms unfortunately, but this is at least a work around for those like myself who don't want to feel stuck only playing on one platform. It also makes the cloud syncing (at least through steam, I have the in game cloud sync option disabled) far less time consuming.