I'm so tired of uPlay and Origin. But uPlay currently takes the prize.

Xyplorer vs. When I upgraded my rig a few weeks back I backed up everything I usually do. Like entire 'My.' Folders, since most saves and configs for important games/programs are stored in My Documents or My Games etc. Also backed up quite a bit of other stuff ofc. One thing I did NOT backup however for obvious reasons was the entire Program files folder (or both of them including the x86 one), since that would be insane. Most programs didn't have anything overly important to save in their install folders anyway. Backing up game saves from Steam has never even crossed my mind lately, since pretty much every game I care about my progress saves to the cloud.

I knew for a fact that I always saw both Origin and uPlay syncing my few important titles on there with their clouds every time too, so why bother with local backups, right? Turns out uPlay cloud saves is a lie. It says it's syncing with the cloud, but it seems to be pretty much random bull, or it only transfers one way - to their servers. To get those saves back on a new rig seems impossible. Btw I'm almost not even gonna bother bitching about how pathetic it is that neither uPlay or Origin can simply scan a folder for a previously installed game, without guides on how to cheat the programs.

Backup patch2.rda in the anno 2070/maindata folder. Open patch2.rda with RDA Explorer. Right click extract assets.xml from data/config/game to desktop. Open assets.xml with notepad modify the values you desire, save exit. Go back to RDA Explorer. Right click the game folder from data/config choose add files. Chose the assets.xml. Nov 05, 2015  Anno 2205; Anno 2205 - Feedback & Discussion. View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Junior Member Join Date Nov 2015 Posts 1. Anno 2205 save location anyone know where the save game is? I want to duplicate mine want try something but dont want loose eveything if someone can help me:/. Program Files (x86) Ubisoft Ubisoft Game.

UPlay is by far the worst there tho, since you have to manually start a download, then stop, exit, delete folders and look up codes-names in the process. Ubisoft seems happy with this fix though, since they aren't helping.

The save games, right, they are actually located inside the install folder for uPlay for their games. As in for example 'C:/Program files/Ubisoft/Ubisoft Game Launcher/savegames/random undecipherable code/unspecified number not saying what game it is/files named 1, 2 etc.' (no info anywhere on what the files are, no names, no titles). How anyone would think that is a logical place for that type of movable/backupable data today is beyond me. That seems like something I would expect like 10 years ago. But the cloud should make this all needless anyways, so I contacted the support.

And after a few very odd questions about if I did in fact manually back up all my saves, and I replied that that was what the damn cloud is for, I only got the solution to turn off cloud saves in uPlay from now. Is that Ubisofts way of saying 'we know, our cloud saves don't work - don't use it'? I have even read that for one of their biggest titles - Assassins Creed IV Black Flag - they turned off cloud saves themselves, since it wasn't working as intended. Seems they never turned it back on or fixed it. My uneducated guess is that Ubisoft hasn't figured out a way to tie those clouds down yet, they upload to them, but then they float away, and they are left standing there with sad faces all around. I ended up telling Mr. Ubisoft support man to pass on my recommendations to just give up and let Steam dominate them already.

I don't know why it did not work for you, I reinstalled windows but managed to keep all my farcry3 save files. But yeah some things are just horrible on uplay, like for example if I want to play anno 2070 and use steam to launch it because thats where I bought it, it also forces the uplay to launch so both of them are running. And as for origin, I actually have never had any problems with it, unlike steam for example which doesnt play DAO for some reason but origin does. I think every platform has its problems right now and sure steam seems to be on top but thats because they have been out for longest. I don't know why it did not work for you, I reinstalled windows but managed to keep all my farcry3 save files. But yeah some things are just horrible on uplay, like for example if I want to play anno 2070 and use steam to launch it because thats where I bought it, it also forces the uplay to launch so both of them are running. And as for origin, I actually have never had any problems with it, unlike steam for example which doesnt play DAO for some reason but origin does.