mtkennerly
commented
1 month ago Hi! This is covered by #194. I have some ideas of how to support this, but it's a bit complicated. There's more info in that ticket, and I think it'll be important to implement #354 first.
For what it's worth, if you only need to sync a few games, then you could set up a few bidirectional redirects between the Windows and Linux paths. That's not feasible to do in bulk, though.
What's your idea?
The problem
Suppose I play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, as an example, on two different machines – one with Windows 11 and the other with a generic Linux distribution. On Windows, I'd use GOG; on Linux, I'd use Heroic Games Launcher (or Lutris).
Ludasavi is going to look in
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Witcher 3\, according to PCGamingWiki.However, the actual path in the application differs and makes it impossibile for a seamless sync. The two paths are, respectively:
C:\Users\%USER%\Documents\The Witcher 3\and\home\user\Games\Heroic\Prefixes\default\The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition\pfx\drive_c\users\steamuser\Documents\The Witcher 3Notice that
\Documents\The Witcher 3\stays the same between the two. The%USERPROFILE%variable is different since in Windows it's the actual Documents folder, while on Linux it's the Heroic launcher prefix for Windows.As I press Restore mode and Continue, Ludasavi returns an error because the folder
\home\user\Games\Heroic\Prefixes\default\The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition\pfx\drive_c\users\steamuser\Documents\The Witcher 3doesn't exist on Windows since it's justC:\Users\%USER%\Documents\The Witcher 3\, without all the Heroic prefix.The proposed solution
What I suggest is to search in the complete directory – which is
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Witcher 3\in this example, the one listed on PCGamingWiki – though backup only the folder of the gamefiles, not the complete path. This way, one could simply backup and restore their saves between multiple platforms and operating systems.