My deus ex human revolution & star wars the force unleashed saves are gone.

Well i tried booting up a diffrent game today (heroes of might & magic 5), and after that i booted up my dues ex game and all of sudden my save file is gone and now all my games are asking me to try "wine experimental" again like after booting them up for the first time.
As of right now it seems to only affect deus ex and force unleased, while knight of the old republic and hitman absolution seem to be unaffected. "I only have these 5 games installed".
Im not the most tech savy person out there so any help would be appreciated.

dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 6:40 PM

Did you change from wine to proton (or the reverse?)

wet-aquaOP•5/17/25, 8:01 PM

No just proton experimental.
The basic one my heroic came with.

popular-magenta•5/17/25, 8:01 PM

I’m pretty sure heroic didn’t come with proton experimental

wet-aquaOP•5/17/25, 8:04 PM

I dont know if this is what allora was talking about?

wet-aquaOP•5/17/25, 8:05 PM

dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 8:08 PM

Ah it means you havent set up any wine with heroic's wine manager or set a default (because you likely didnt have wine installed)

dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 8:08 PM

So it found one installed by steam

wet-aquaOP•5/17/25, 8:12 PM

I fiqured thats what it meant.

wet-aquaOP•5/17/25, 8:14 PM

I was able to replicate that by reseting the heroic cache but i dont see why that would remove my save data?

dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 8:15 PM

So the basics are: there are two common flavors of wine, the unmodified wine, and proton, the version of wine valve maintains to run games.

In heroic, both Wine and proton create a "wine prefix" which is kind of like a virtual c drive for windows. It kind of acts as a place holder for windows systems. Among other things, this is where most games will put their save files.

However proton and wine dont use the same file structure in their prefixes, so its common to "lose" your save when you change between them

Similarly if you delete the prefix it will delete your save

dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 8:16 PM

If you didnt delete the prefix folder then the save is simply in the worng place for the game to see it. You can copy it over to the right one like any other file

wet-aquaOP•5/17/25, 8:19 PM

wet-aquaOP•5/17/25, 8:21 PM

So i heard, your supposed to start new game and transfer the files from the old save to the new one. but where do i find the old one?

dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 8:22 PM

Tbh first thing I would do is make a copy of the prefix folder heh so you dont lose anything

dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 8:23 PM

Then post a screenshot of what is in the folder

dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 8:23 PM

The prefix folders are defaulted to be placed in ~/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default

wet-aquaOP•5/17/25, 8:28 PM

wet-aquaOP•5/17/25, 9:02 PM

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dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 9:12 PM

Oh boy thats not good

dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 9:13 PM

Looks like something is misconfigured, looks like something set the default folder as its prefix rather than a subfolder for the specific game

dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 9:14 PM

Which games do you need the save files from?

wet-aquaOP•5/17/25, 10:24 PM

Deus ex and force unleased. i checked knights of old republic and save files where still there.

dry-scarlet•5/17/25, 11:00 PM

can you post a game log from one of those games?

HeroicBotAPP•5/17/25, 11:02 PM

To help you, we need a game log. Please see the following images on how to get it.

wet-aquaOP•5/17/25, 11:44 PM

Sorry i was at chick fil a one moment

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wet-aquaOP•5/18/25, 12:01 AM

And the force unleased says it has no log file.

nursing-lime•5/18/25, 12:02 AM

Verify your URL because it looks like you’re manually typing that in

nursing-lime•5/18/25, 12:03 AM

https://0x0.st/8vGe.log

nursing-lime•5/18/25, 12:03 AM

Do not use stock Proton. Switch to GE-Proton-latest

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:04 AM

you need to enable wine logs as perthe instructions too

nursing-lime•5/18/25, 12:04 AM

Also, use a game specific prefix

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:04 AM

well my goal here was to see what was messed up

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:04 AM

because he has some game specific prefixes and i wanted to see which games were not set correctly

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:05 AM

cuz if you look at the screen shot of the folder 2 games are in the prefix and then default was used as a prefix so there's a lot to clean up, but first we have to save the save games

nursing-lime•5/18/25, 12:05 AM

Oh fair

wet-aquaOP•5/18/25, 12:08 AM

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:12 AM

so like a few things: your prefix folder in game settings is wrong, but it looks like there is a deus ex folder already in there, so you can change the prefix location from /home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default to home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Deus Ex Human Revolution - Director's Cuthome/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Deus Ex Human Revolution - Director's Cut

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:17 AM

see if that restores your save games

wet-aquaOP•5/18/25, 12:24 AM

Found my saved game for deus ex

wet-aquaOP•5/18/25, 12:24 AM

Do i do the same for force unleased?

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:25 AM

yeah

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:25 AM

your other issue is that you aren't using GE-Proton from heroics wine manager

wet-aquaOP•5/18/25, 12:26 AM

So download the latest proton like what the other guy said

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:28 AM

yep yep its in the wine manager on the left, you can then set heroic to use it by default

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:28 AM

so that next time you install it will have the right one

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:28 AM

you will have to change the others.. granted i hesitate to change things if its otherwise working

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:29 AM

but this will set you up better in the future when you install new games

dry-scarlet•5/18/25, 12:30 AM

GE-Proton with umu enabled will generally lead to a more successful time with playing games (umu will automatically apply fixes that the whole linux gaming community contributes to) so more games "just work" once that's set up

My deus ex human revolution & star wars the force unleashed saves are gone.

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