Reinstalling Steam - Lose progress?

[MeatLoaf]

Considering reformatting my rig and also adding a 2nd SSD for my gaming drive.

My current steam folder is on a 2tb mechanical drive.

Will reinstalling windows and then reinstalling steam on a new SSD lose all my prgress and achievements in multiplayer games like MW3 and black ops or can i retrieve the info from the 2tb drive?

 

[Chris [BEANS]]

You'll lose any progress on anything that doesn't use cloud saves. You 'probably' won't lose achievements because they're Steam side rather than client side.

 

[Raumarik]

if you're able to copy your steam folder plus take a backup of your users folder from your current windows build you can rebuild all progress etc later on by posting in game specific data into their respective locations after reinstalling steam, overwriting with the backed up copy of steam and running the game once to get it to build your "user" folders for that game.

You won't lose much if anything, provided you are careful and get a copy of it first.

90% of the time all you need is the steam folder, your my documents and anything in c:\users\username which might be necessary later on.

achievements etc are all held on steam, specific game one which don't show up on the steam client are probably mostly held on game servers too.

 

[agw_01]

FWIW, Steam saved games are in the Steam\SteamApps\*username*\*gamename* folders.

I know my HL2 and Portal saved games are. Not sure if it relates to all Steam apps.

 

[Raumarik]

Some steam games save to your my documents or even some other random areas if they're older games.

 

[MeMeMeMe]

Before you reformat, install Game Save Manager.
Run it to back up all your save games (whether steam or non-steam), then after you reformat, use that to restore them.

After you run it, check it has found all your saves. Some less common games might not be in its database, but you can manually add them so they are saved.

 

[orderoftheflame]

Before you reformat, install Game Save Manager.
Run it to back up all your save games (whether steam or non-steam), then after you reformat, use that to restore them.

After you run it, check it has found all your saves. Some less common games might not be in its database, but you can manually add them so they are saved.

This.

 

[Utnac]

Blacks ops and MW3 use cloud saving if that's all you worried about.

 

[V4NT0M]

lol I was going to make the exact same thread for the same reason.

 

[Ace Modder]

Game save manager.... I love you

 

[malachi]

Game save manager.... I love you

+1

 

[LostCorpse]

i've seen game saves also in :
c:\dcs and settings\<user name>\application data
&
c:\dcs and settings\<user name>\local settings

Documents and settings

you may need to dig for them, though.

Which games spesifically are you refering to?