Steam / XCOM / cloud save game sync issue

[mikeymikec]

XCOM: Enemy Unknown has a bug in, which in my case I believe was triggered by having too many save games. When trying to correct the problem through the UI failed (trying to delete old save games, a lot of the time it would just ignore me), I thought the solution would be simple - go into the save games folder and nuke the old save games. The problem is, when I do that, Steam 'helpfully' re-syncs my old save games back when I try to start the game.

For now I've worked around that issue by disabling my network connection before starting Steam, but that's a bit of a sucky workaround.

Any ideas?

 

[ImpulsE69]

If you open steam, go to your library list, you can right click on each game and select properties and disable cloud syncing for it under "updates"

 

[mikeymikec]

Will that have any effect on the game being able to receive program updates?

- edit - going into the game's properties answered that question.

Thanks for your help