Next-gen game upgrades never seem to go as flawlessly as you'd hope, so I was not at all surprised to find some potholes to avoid in transferring your GTA 5 save file to GTA 5 Enhanced edition on PC.

I nearly hydroplaned trying to figure out how to agree to Rockstar's darn online policies, which sounds ridiculous—but this is GTA Online we're talking about. Why would anything be straightforward? I can at least help you avoid your own road rage by talking you through this poorly-explained requirement for GTA Enhanced.

Here's the quick rundown on what you need to know about transferring your GTA 5 save file from GTA 5 Legacy to Enhanced and how to get it done without stalling out.

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Launch GTA 5 as normal and open story mode

Open the menu to the "game" tab and navigate to "upload save game"

❗Accept Rockstar's online policies (details below) if needed

Choose the one (only one!) save file you want to upload

Open GTA 5 Enhanced and start story mode

Open the menu to the "game" tab and navigate to "download save game"

Accept the download of the save file attached to your account

Remember, Rockstar says that you can only go through the save file transfer process once and never again. You can reupload save games to your account in GTA 5 Legacy, overwriting the one you'd picked before multiple times. But you can only import a save file to GTA 5 Enhanced one time. You also can't transfer GTA 5 Enhanced progress back to the Legacy edition because, yeah, why would you want to?