If you are trying to disable cloud saves in Baldur’s Gate 3 to help speed up save times or in order to help fix “Failed To Load The Main Menu From The Current Game Mod” or another similar error. This article will show you how to quickly and easily turn off cloud saves in Baldur’s Gate 3 in Steam.
Related: How to fix Astarion stuck encumbered in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Cloud saves are one of the best things to ever come to the gaming industry! I can’t even remember the amount of times they have saved me from complete devastation! If your computer ever fails and you only have locally saved games you will be utterly broken, especially if you have been grinding away in games like Final Fantasy or Baldur’s Gate 3.
While Cloud Saves are the ultimate insurance plan and also allow the ability to have cross saves between different devices they can occasionally cause conflicts, especially when you are using Mods in games. Let me explain! For example, in Baldur’s Gate 3 there is an annoying error called Failed To Load The Main Menu From The Current Game Mod which appears when there is an issue with a mod/s in your game.
While fixing the error is quick and easy, there may be extra conflicts for some people depending on the mods they were using and the content stored in their cloud saves. So you can try to disable it to solve the issue. Once that is solved you can enable cloud saves again.
How do you Turn off Cloud Saves in Baldur’s Gate 3? Disable Baldur’s Gate 3 Steam Cloud Saves.
While you can disable Cloud Saves in the game, it’s best to disable them from Steam so to do this follow the steps shown below.
- First, open Steam then go to the Library tab and find Baldur’s Gate 3.
- Once you have found the game right-click on it and select Properties.
- In the new window that appears stay on the General tab and disable Keep game saves in the Steam Cloud for Baldur’s Gate 3.
- As soon as you make the change Steam will know not to sync any more saves from your PC to the cloud.
If you are disabling cloud saves for Baldur’s Gate in order to fix the modding issue or any other issue, don’t forget to enable them once again when you have solved the problem. If cloud saves were the problem and you still have all of your local saves you can purge all your cloud saves. But for the process, you are going to have to check out the following guide as the process isn’t a simple one. How to Delete Steam Cloud Saves.
If you are having some other problems with Baldur’s Gate 3 check out our full guide library here.
