#SIMAIRPORT SAVE GAME LOCATION INSTALL#
#SIMAIRPORT SAVE GAME LOCATION UPDATE#
#SIMAIRPORT SAVE GAME LOCATION PATCH#

The Steam library folder shouldn’t be copied as it’s where all games is installed.

Move ~/.var/app//data/Steam/ to ~/.var/app//home/.local/share/Steam/.

Create ~/.var/app//home/.local/share/ and set it as $XDG_DATA_HOME in the launcher.

Create ~/.var/app//home/.config/ and set it as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME in the launcher.

Create ~/.var/app//home/.cache/ and set it as $XDG_CACHE_HOME in the launcher.

Create ~/.var/app//home/ and set it as $HOME in the launcher.

I believe this should fix the issues and preserve both sets of data: However, we shouldn’t overwrite either the local copy of the Steam Cloud or the local game progress to make it possible to recover either two. A dialog in Steam will ask players to choose which they want to keep. I’ve experimented a bit with merging local folders on top of steam cloud folders. We need to make a decision on what to break to proceed with this issue.

Bridge Constructor Portal (cloud profile doesn’t match actual storage location).

The following titles have broken cloud sync implementations and can’t be fixed without creative game-specific patching that has nothing to do with Flatpak: † Works with at least RimWorld, City Skylines, Borderlands 2, Project Highrise, Sim Airport (game doesn’t work, but sync does), Transport Fever (game doesn’t work, but sync does), Mini Metro, Dream Daddy, and Space Run (game doesn’t work, but sync does). Some are inside the Flatpak app directory, some are in the home directory, some are partially in one place and partially in the other. We also don’t know what the actual paths that need to be migrated are. These are recoverable but we can’t migrate the data for the user without causing Steam Cloud conflicts.

Local saves inside and outside the Flatpak container is lost.

#SIMAIRPORT SAVE GAME LOCATION INSTALL#

It can’t be migrated as moving it breaks some games that use absolute install paths and causes crashes with the Steam overlay. The old Steam library and install is no good.All games† now sync to and from Steam Cloud, meaning players get back years worth of game progression.All games† now only have one data directory and everyone agrees on where that directory is located.

#SIMAIRPORT SAVE GAME LOCATION PATCH#

Here is a suggested patch for `steam-wrapper:Įxport HOME='$HOME/.var/app//data/home'Įxport XDG_DATA_HOME='$HOME/.local/share' Should be a workable solution that works for a majority of games (at least Unit圓D titles, and I suggest most others too) - unless anyone has contacts at Valve and can make them fix this upstream? I tested with restoring the sandboxed $HOME prefix stuff in the wrapper committed by and reverted by This seems to fix cloud syncing with many games, but broke some games like Cities Skylines.Ĭombining this special sandboxed $HOME variable with having $XDG_DATA_HOME point to /home/user/.var/app//home/.local/share/ and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME point to /home/user/.var/app//home/.config/ should fix pretty much every game as Steam and games then should agree on where saves are kept.

#SIMAIRPORT SAVE GAME LOCATION UPDATE#

Players have access to existing syncs, but can’t update existing saves or add new ones.Ī few games, like FTL, are synced to /home/user/.var/app//data/studio/gamename and everything appears to work out of the box. Some games, like Cities Skylines, are synced to /home/user/.local/share/studio/gamename and will read from both locations, but only write changes and new saves to /home/user/.var/app//data/studio/gamename. These won’t be synced and players won’t have access to existing saves. Many games, like RimWorld, won’t read from /home/user/.local/share/studio/gamename where saves are synced by Steam but instead only read from and write to /home/user/.var/app//data/studio/gamename. Unit圓D) but Steam itself doesn’t actually read the $XDG_DATA_HOME variable but just hardcodes $HOME/.local/share/ or $HOME/.config/. It appears that game developers use $XDG_DATA_HOME (default in e.g. This is the LinuxXdgDataHome data root path in Steam Cloud, which documentation suggests is corresponding to $XDG_DATA_HOME. The below ended up serving as drafts for that analysis and is less less accurate.įor most games, Steam Cloud syncs saves and configurations to and from /home/user/.local/share/studio/gamename. Update: Read this analysis of this bug which includes two suggestions for possible fixes. TL DR: Paths are broken because of XDG overwrites.

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