So I finally got to purchase TSW4 with the Halloween discount and wanted to install it now through the steam application with my old progess TSW3 transfered. However, I can't do that as easily as I thought, because it requires me to have both TSW3 and TSW4 installed simultanously. To make the facts a little bit clearer, in the TSW4 FAQ is stated: In the steam application, TSW4 and with all DLCs I own is currently about 120 GB. My TSW3 installation already occupies about 83 GB of storage. So that basically means, I'm required to have about 203 GB of hard disk storage for both applications in order to transfer my profile. I barely have the 120 GB of storage for TSW4 ready, when deleting all TSW3 files. Not even to mention what would I need to do to have both installed at the same time. Requiring me to either delete other important files of mine or just go with TSW4 with no transferred progress at all. And if I would decide to go for the former, it's a shame to have to delete a big bunch of files just for a quick little profile transfer to have been completed and erase the old TSW3 files nonetheless thereafter. I personally can not understand why it is necessary to do so. Why can't this information be simply stored in my Dovetail Live Account instead and my profile data is downloaded to TSW4 once I log in? I'm pretty sure that the data of the player's progess wouldn't exhaust the Dovetail servers. And what actually is the reason for a Dovetail Live Account at all if it doesn't save player data? Is there an explicit reason why all of the TSW3 files need to remain for transferring the progress?
you can uncheck the DLCs in the DLC manager in Steam and then just install the base game (roughly 4GB) which pretty much only includes the training center, transfer profile and uninstall it again
Thank you for the tip! But I didn't understand it completely yet. So you mean, 1. I install the base game TSW4 (without all the DLCs), 2. Transfer my progress from TSW3 to TSW4. 3. Uninstall TSW3. 4. Install the DLCs for TSW4. Is that correct?
no If I got it correct your current status is TSW4 and DLCs installed, TSW3 uninstalled 1. install TSW3 without DLC 2. transfer profile to TSW4 3. uninstall TSW3
My current state is exactly the opposite: TSW3 and all DLCs installed, TSW4 uninstalled yet. [Since I have storage problems] I'm just asking for the normal way from getting myself from TSW3 to TSW4 without losing the progress or profile. However, in your way, it would mean 1. First I need to uninstall TSW3 and make space for the TSW4 installation, 2. install TSW4 with DLCs, 3. Install TSW3 again (without DLCs - just the base game), 4. Transfer the profile from TSW3 to TSW4, 5. Uninstall TSW3. It would provide a solution to my problem, however still as strange way to transfering profiles to be honest. Why does Dovetail Games not simply store all the profile information in the cloud, and we can can simply obtain whenever we log into an installation?
nah you can uninstall TSW3's DLCs to make more space for TSW4 and it's DLCs, then transfer the profile, and then uninstall TSW3 completely
One week went by, and I didn't said what I actually did. So what I did 1. Move some TSW3 DLCs to another hard to get more space. 2. Installed TSW4. 3. Transferred the profile over to TSW4. 4. Installed only some DLCs for TSW4. 5. Kept TSW3 and TSW4 so far together. Will probably change this setup further, but just for now and to have a stable TSW3 I keep it that way. For the last days and time actually having TSW4 I also only worked with QGIS and the PC Editor, so almost had no play time in TSW4 yet. Still keeps a bit strange to transfer your profile this way. Would be a lot easier if the process would be saved in the Dovetail Live Account, because it would also could be backwards ported to TSW3 once you come back. So the process will activley continue don't matter where you play. But yeah, I guess to much for DTG for any reason. Anyhow, my problem got solved. Thank you for the tip again with unselecting the DLC content from being installed in the Steam app. This helped a lot.
