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Pet Peeves with Games? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago* (8 children)

Hey have you tried Steam Family or whatever it's called? You can make a new user and they have access to all of your game library. Only one account would be able to play at a time but it would solve your save file dilemma - games files are in the common folder but save files are in the user folder

[EDIT] Steam Families

When you join a Steam Family, you automatically gain access to the shareable games that your family members own and they will also be able to access the shareable titles in your library. [...]

Best of all, when you are playing a game from your family library, you will create your own saved games, earn your own Steam achievements, have access to workshop files and more.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Since they just have the one pc, they should be able to just make a second user on the pc then sign in to the single steam account. The new user won’t have any save files in the local user directories, so the game gets launched and you’ll only see the “second” set of saves. No idea how this would work with cloud saves on the steam side though.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    That would be even more work IMO

    Unless they want to separate their non-game files, too

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Wait, so how does that work for games that store saves in ‘c:\users%user%\my documents’ and stuff? That’s why I assumed they’d also need a separate user account on the pc.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    This might have been the issue as well? All the saves were in the Cloud. But I'm not very techy. While I can follow instructions (I think), software seems to hate me. The hardware, we're friends!

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    If that was the issue then doing two separate user accounts on the PC, then having a primary steam account (the existing one with all the games) and a secondary new one, and putting them into a Steam family together just like the person I replied to said would be functionally equivalent to yall having two separate PCs with your own steam accounts when it comes to saves and steam achievements and stuff, but you only need to buy and install the game once. It’ll also let you have separate config files so if one person like controls bound one way and the other another you’re not having to rebind each time yall swap who is playing and everything.

    Edit - I, as an adult, took shrooms then accidentally overwrote my dad’s Skyrim save file on his PS3 back in the day and I felt terrible about it :/. I totally understand how annoying save handling can be.

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