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Start a game on a PC, pick it up on the Steam Deck.
The release of Valve’s portable Steam Deck device is only a month away, and every new announcement is making the device more appealing. Many major games in the Steam catalog have already been confirmed to work with the device, and it will have full connectivity with just about every feature inherent to the Steam platform. According to a Steam community announcement released this week, this will also include one of Steam’s newest features, dynamic cloud sync.
In layman’s terms, dynamic cloud sync allows you to start playing a game on a PC, and as long as it’s connected to the Steam Cloud service, seamlessly resume your game progress on another platform (i.e., a Steam Deck). Previously, Steam sync wouldn’t go into effect until you exited out of a game entirely, but now your save data will be constantly kept up to date.
“We anticipate that users will frequently suspend their Steam Deck without exiting the game, as is common with other hand-held gaming devices,” Valve wrote in the community announcement. “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.”
Steam's new feature lets you switch from playing on Steam Deck to PC and back again without losing any game progress. https://t.co/csw8Buo4aR
— PCMag (@PCMag) January 25, 2022
“With Dynamic Cloud Sync, Steam will automatically upload all modified save game data to the cloud prior to the device entering sleep mode. Users can then resume their game on any PC, laptop or other device. Steam will also automatically download any save game changes when users return to their Steam Deck and wake up the device.”
