[BUG] Half-Life: Alyx - saves downloaded from Steam Cloud unavailable ingame

[LiquidPL]

Reporting this here since there seems to be no Alyx specific GitHub repo available. If there's a better place for this report please let me know.

Describe the bug After downloading Half-Life: Alyx on a fresh Linux system and letting Steam synchronize the cloud saves, said saves are not shown in the ingame menus (it's just prompting to start a new game, as if there were no saves).

After going to the game directory (Half-Life Alyx/game/hlvr), you can notice the saves being downloaded to the SAVE directory (in all caps). Renaming the folder to save, and the S* folders inside it to s* (in non capital letters) causes the game to recognize the saves.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have some saves for Alyx uploaded to the Steam Cloud.
2. Have a fresh system install (specifically one where Alyx isn't installed, and there is no leftover Half-Life Alyx folder in steamapps, or any game saves stored).
3. Download or install Alyx in a standard way, and wait until the Steam Cloud saves are synchronized.
4. Launch the game.
5. No saves are visible in the game menu.

Expected behavior The saves downloaded from the Steam Cloud should be shown in the game's menus.

System Information (please complete the following information):

• Distribution: Arch
• SteamVR version: 1.12.3
• Steam client version: May 15, 2020
• Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
• Graphics driver version: NVIDIA 440.82
• Gist for SteamVR System Information: https://gist.github.com/LiquidPL/faf581f4031cdd9a6974fff21e2b6b38

Note: Commenters who are also experiencing this issue are encouraged to include the "System Information" section in their replies.

[MarcoDePollo]

I wondered about this as well. I checked my steam-cloud to see if anything was saved and I did have savegames from October 2020, but nothing later than that. I then checked my laptop and found two folders, one labeled save and one labeled SAVE.. The SAVE-folder contained everything synced to steam-cloud, while save contained everything else.

[kontiko]

for a quick workaround under Linux delete the save folder in hlvr and then open a terminal and create a symlink by opening a terminal and running ln -s Save save