Darks wrote on Apr 11, 2012, 21:42:
The problem is most people don’t understand how GFWL uses the AppData Directory to store their files. Many people will rebuild and blow away their hard drive not realizing that in the C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\XLiveLive directory your saves and setting are stored there. This is what needs to be backed up If you back this folder up in the AppData and the one in the Roaming you WILL NOT lose your saves.
I love how you guys all pile on and complain about GFWL etc etc
As others said I am not talking about losing saves after a format. And on that note I always back up the entire user tree when doing a wipe anyways. I have had deleted game issues on Fallout 3 and Arkham Asylum. I save my game, come back later, not there. Hours lost, and I am not alone. I also had GFWL program issues on Bioshock 2. Those are the only three GFWL games I own, so that's a 0% success rate. Yes I understand there is a difference between the online and offline profiles.
GFLW absolutely mangled itself after it tried to update 4 times on the last game (Bioshock2). Gave a nice generic error, as a good PC user off to the forums I went. Tried every fix, manually edited the registery, tried clean installs, no effect. Had to wait for the next system format to start completely clean. My theory thus far is that GFWL badly handles updating the client if it hasn't been used for a long time.
Steam has been rock solid for me since Half Life 2. Had a couple minor issues with Origin but nothing serious. Also liked Impulse but only used it for Sins and Galcvi2.