Prevent the loss of game progress: Save File Backups/Disable & download Cloud Saves + Fix corrupted files - ELDEN RING 2:45 AM / by admin / in ELDEN RING / with No comments / Share This: Facebook Twitter Google+ Stumble Digg Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook
![A guide on how to disable Steam Cloud saves, use newer cloud or local saves when prompted, download cloud saves, make manual and auto saves and fixing corrupted save files. Disabling Steam Cloud saves In your Steam Library, Right click on Elden Ring>Properties and untick “Keep game saves in the Steam Cloud for Elden Ring”. The reason for doing this is because usually, the local saves are written more frequently than the cloud versions which may not save due to a drop in internet, a forced exit, game crash etc. Regular backups of your local save files should be maintained. Also, by disabling cloud saves, you will not receive a prompt to choose between cloud or local saves where one might chose the wrong option. To re-enable Steam Cloud saves, make sure “Keep game saves in the Steam Cloud for Elden Ring” is ticked. Creating a manual save backup To find your Elden Ring save files either: 1. Copy and paste this string in any Windows Explorer Navigation bar and hit enter %AppData%\EldenRing or 2. Navigate to C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\EldenRing. (The AppData folder may be hidden) Click on the folder within. The actual saves are all .sl2 files, (ER0000.sl2 file in my example) however, to err on the side of caution, I personally make a copy of all files within that folder. The .bak file is also a backup made by Elden Ring but usually what happens to the actual save happens to it as well. To make a backup, right click anywhere and select New>Folder. Name it anything then copy and paste your save files inside. Creating an auto save backup Credits to Raigavin for the following write up. Originally posted by Raigavin: ...you can create a batch file on the desktop which does backing up your EldenRing saves automatically for you .... - Right Click on desktop -> New Text Document - Open it then copy and paste the following into the text file: cd %APPDATA%\ xcopy EldenRing "C:\ER backup\EldenRing\" /e /y cd C:\"ER backup" ren EldenRing "EldenRing %date%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%" - Save file - Rename text file to a batch file, example: ER_Savebackup.bat Double click on the file to create a save backup. (give a minute of gap at least between making the backups) It will copy the EldenRing save data files to C:\ER backup\ Add a date stamp (if needed) Cloud sync error A sync error may happen if Steam did not properly sync the local save file’s progress with that on the Cloud. Upon launch, the user will have the following prompt: The best thing to do is ALWAYS SELECT THE NEWER FILE. In my example, the newer file is my local save: If for some reason, the Cloud save is newer, I would first cancel, make a backup of my local save then finally re-launch Elden Ring and choose to download the cloud save. If the cloud save isn’t where you left off, just close the game and replace your local saves from the backup and choose local files instead. If you load a save from the cloud, it's older than your local save and you have lost progress, there's no way to get back that progress as it'll overwrite the local save files and vice versa. The game can at times crash resulting in a corrupted save, so it's best practice to have manual/auto backups made even with cloud saves enabled and ALWAYS CHOOSE THE NEWEST SAVE WHEN PROMPTED. Final note: it may happen that you select the local file as the newer save but you still lost progress. That would just be the game's fault for not saving your progress for a variety of reasons and a simple one maybe be that the game was closed forcefully without having the chance to completely save: It may just be that either way, you were going to lose that progress. Making periodic saves is the foolproof way to ensure that if you do lose progress, it not too much should it happen. All the best and happy gaming! Download Cloud Save file To download your Elden Ring Cloud save files, provided you have Steam Cloud enabled for this game, go here (login if required) and hit download for your save, then copy and paste in your local save folder. Fixing a corrupted save files Download this Hex Editor[mh-nexus.de] 1. Make a backup of your save (.sl2 file) located at %AppData%\EldenRing\"numbers" 2. Launch Elden Ring, select New game, create a second character and exit game. 3. Open Hex editor and find the.sl2 you want to fix (for my example, ER0000.sl2 4. Right click in the Offset column and choose Select block... 5. in Start-offset put 000000310 and in End-offset put 0028030F and hit OK 6. From the menu bar, go to Analysis and select Checksums 7. In Available algorithms, scroll down and select MD-5 and hit OK 8. Right click again in the Offset column and choose Select block 9. in Start-offset put 000000300 and in End-offset put 00000030F and hit OK 10. At the bottom under Checksum right click and copy the entire MD-5 string 11. Go above to the highlighted line, right click it and select Paste write 12. Save 13. Delete ER0000.sl2.bak and launch game.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi49Cc9Kx9AZdBXhQiAZ2dThsxLGTitueMxGdLulyua3Ah8896WyNqMMBfQLjxFnkUptBZFbqXoYWTxT3s247D1Uje8RdHA61JxaXZYd6dKhG1PzrCFMa1pnis6BUKMq8-qm-P2RDWzA81vIsRJd06DHsQfFn0K4-c4TrN8r324CtZ6k3x82kDTr8KD/s9114/1.png)
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