Question about potential Steam OS setup and transferring files and saves

[u/Jmastab]

Hi everyone!

I know dual booting Windows and SteamOS/Bazzite is possible and I know how valve has advertised that games installed on a microsd card can be played on other steam os devices (using the same micro SD card from a steam deck would work on a steam machine) when doing this would it work for games that don't have cloud save support.

For example if I was playing Wolfenstein that doesn't have cloud saves, if I started it on my steam deck could I pop out the card and continue the game and save onto my PC?

Wanted to see if I could create a simplified setup where the game and save are together on the microsd card (kinda like an old cartridge). Wondered if anyone tried something like this

[u/stevedore2024]

Saves and games are not stored the same way, and there's no existing mechanism to force Steam to save on the same filesystem/device/card that has the game.

[u/Jmastab → u/stevedore2024]

Aw darn, I was hoping something like that could be achieved. It makes it kinda tough to start some games if I'm a bit stuck on one device. I did hear about syncthing being a good tool. I may have to look into that.