Valve has announced that transferring cloud saves between the Steam Deck and PC will become easier with a new feature.
Called Dynamic Cloud Sync, the technology means that players can suspend a game on the Steam Deck, then boot up Steam on their PC and pick up where they left off.
“We anticipate that users will frequently suspend their Steam Deck without exiting the game, as is common with other hand-held gaming devices,” says Valve in the post. “With Dynamic Cloud Sync, if they then choose to play on another device (whether a PC or another Steam Deck), their progress will be there waiting for them.”
As players put the Steam Deck into sleep mode, modified save data will be uploaded to the cloud, and new save data will also be downloaded when players wake up the Steam Deck from sleep mode as well.
If used without Dynamic Cloud Sync, players will be asked to return to the Steam Deck if booting the same game on PC, otherwise they’ll have to play without the handheld’s most recent save data.
According to the Steamworks post, to set it up players need to go to the relevant game’s Steamworks page, and select “Steam Cloud” in the applications drop menu. Then they just enable the cloud sync on suspend and resume. Before that, Valve says to go and integrate the dynamic cloud save APIs.
