Overview
A quick guide to backing up your saved games and config, in case something goes very wrong and they get corrupted.
Location
Your Saved game is the following file:
C:Users<username>AppDataLocalCotHSavedSaveGames<somenumber>Profile_1.sav
… it is NOT the steam_autocloud.vdf found under your Steam install directory!
Your Config is in the same area.
I would personally recommend just making a zip of all of this:
C:Users<username>AppDataLocalCotHSaved
Just do it when the game isn’t running, and move the .zip into one of your own folders (say My Documents), for future reference.
It can’t hurt, and it can save all your gaming hours if ever the file gets corrupted. It hasn’t happened to many, but it has happened to some.
Better safe than sorry, considering it’s so easy to do.