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Hi, asked to submit here after support ticket [BI-RT #316464]

When using GeForce Now to play ARMA 3, Steam Cloud is not integrated properly and campaign saves, editor saves & all local content is wiped after exiting the session each time. I'm sure this problem is more extensive with things like challenges but I've never used them so I wouldn't know.

Currently ARMA 3 is being advertised on there, NVIDIA say it's not their issue but clearly is a problem as new users will likely refund if they manage to notice this in the first 2 hours. To anyone who relies on SP experiences this is essentially a game breaking experience.

Multiplayer is the only way to have any form of persistence, but my user profile name seems to remain each time so clearly something is being saved. I personally think the solution would be to use Steam Cloud for local files, it works in other games with huge save sizes so shouldn't be an issue with file size.

There are issues with mods like ACE breaking it entirely, but am aware third party mods won't be covered just thought worth mentioning this as well, especially as a significant amount of MP groups use this

Have added it as Win 10 but do not know what NVIDIA rigs natively run on & often are different each time

Details

Severity
Major
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Category
Savegame/Loadgame
Steps To Reproduce

Use GeForce now to play ARMA 3

Event Timeline

savgor97 created this task.Nov 25 2024, 1:38 PM
dedmen added a subscriber: dedmen.Thu, Dec 12, 4:52 PM

Correct, we do not support cloud saves. And we do not plan to change that.
The default user profile name, is the username of the account playing the game. If the username stays the same, every new profile will have the same name.

Correct, we do not support cloud saves. And we do not plan to change that.
The default user profile name, is the username of the account playing the game. If the username stays the same, every new profile will have the same name.

It doesn't, there is some kind of persistence with new profiles. There is a default profile, yes, this is called Kiosk as it must be something to do with the VMs that NVIDIA uses. But, it also saves new profiles. I have made 4 profiles now and each one of these saves.

NVIDIA are saving something, and as I've found in other games it seems to not just be limited to cloud saving either.

Either way, personally I have thousands of hours invested and host a server - I can look past this. But without attaching any kind of warning, notice or caution that your session WILL NOT save campaign progress is a deal breaker. This is going to be compounded by the nature of ARMA 3 Gameplay - it's likely a user won't notice until they are out of their refund hours on Steam, and although not intentional it's easy to see how this is pretty scummy when listing this game on the front sales page within GeForce Now.

Either don't support it, or make it clear this is how it works. I'm sure a fair few sales wouldn't have been made if this was known, I'm going to leave a comment on the Steam page outlining this.