FNV Doesn't Use Steam Cloud for game saves. This was something i was looking forward to, will it be added in later.

It's possible, I guess, but I certainly wouldn't bet on it.

Oblivion/Fallout3/NV saves are kind of large - might not work so well with the Cloud.

On the steam page for FNV, it says it does have Steam Cloud support.

Ubuntu users get a couple free gigabytes just for using that OS. These are in Cloud.

Why can't steam cloud manage?

"Cloud" doesn't refer to a specific entity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage still requires someone to host it. Steam Cloud uses VALVE's storage systems. I have no idea what Cloud you are referring to.

I do travel a lot because im in the US Army, i have to switch between my laptop and desktop a lot while im away from base. That is why i wanted Steam Cloud to work with FNV

Are you allowed to move a USB drive back and forth?

if not, something like http://www.dropbox.com/ would let you keep the save directories synced up...

There is a Cloud for Ubuntu users . Ubuntu is a Linux OS.

They offer several gigabytes to users of their OS. If they can manage that space, why not VALVE?

FYI: That OS is free and the space.

Why not ask VALVE, or Canonical?

VALVE has set aside a specific quota per user, you'll have to ask them for their reasons.

(I know what Ubuntu is. RHCE, bughunter for several distros, sysadmin at work, etc)

"Oblivion/Fallout3/NV saves are kind of large - might not work so well with the Cloud. "

Gigabytes large? Not even close.

/facepalm


My FO3 save dir is ~ 30mb, and that's not a lot in there. A quicksave, and maybe 5 saves. Steam gives you like 6mb per game, AFAIK.

Also, VALVE IS NOT CANONICAL. What they give you is completely unrelated to what VALVE does.

Some conjecture:

Ubuntu gets a lot of pro-bono mirroring to lighten load.
Ubuntu's systems are not geared for throughput like a game/media distribution system will be.
VALVE is hosting -metric-buttloads- more data than the Ubuntu mirrors. This I know, because I manage a local mirror. My own collection of games, installed, takes up about as much (or more) space than the entire production Ubuntu mirror. (and you KNOW I don't own close to everything they host)

It does sync the quick and auto save, and a lot of people are reporting problems with it not syncing correctly and finding older versions or they are gone completely when they quit and come back later.

This has happened to my twice now. I give up until there is a fix, lost almost 3 hours now due to this.

Someone posted a workaround in the support forum http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1122356-problems-with-save-games/page__p__16509289&#entry16509289. It doesn't effect hard saves, so just make sure you hard save before exiting. Of course that won't help if the game crashes. Playing in offline mode will disable the Steam Cloud sync and fix it too.

Except, this doesn't work either. Tried again doing all this and still repopulates the game with the old saves.