What is Steam syncing to the "cloud" when GC3 ends?

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Every time I close GC3, or it terminates abnormally, Steam syncs something to "the cloud". It is a huge amount of data that takes 4-6 minutes to complete, during which time GC3 can not be restarted. This only started in beta 5. Why is there so much data that is considered so critical that it all has to be sent up-link?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

first off you can disable this by right clicking on GC3 in your steam library selecting properties then updates at the bottom is a check box for steam cloud

according to steam 

"The Steam Cloud stores information so your product experience is consistent across computers.

 

now im not sure if this is something that was done by steam or by SD but i think its transferring your save data so that you can continue to play this game from any computer you use and have steam running on

considering i only use one PC i find its useless

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have used it in the past with another (Steam) game to be able to continue a game on one computer that had been saved on another.  Since I only have one computer now capable of running GC3, it's a useless feature for me too, so I've turned it off.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

The big thing I noticed and demonstrated by uninstalling GC3 and removing the My Games/Galciv3 folder is that when syncing the cloud loads all of your saved games and when you reinstall GC3 it will download all of those games to your new Galciv3 folder.   Maybe useful later but right now it's a bother, because save games generally don't translate well to new releases.

So I turned off the cloud.

 

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

@ gilmoy thats something i hadnt thought about 

might be usefull when rebuilding or re-installing 

although i wouldnt mind a weekly/monthly setting 

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Uploading saved games to the cloud could very well be what I am seeing. Unless you have a very fast web connection the time it takes can get annoyingly long. My upload connect speed is only about 800 Mbps.  I am also turning it off, as I don't see saving games as sufficiently critical with the slow connect speed I have.

 

Many thanks for the explanation.

 

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

That's Steam auto-syncing the saves.