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[CrazyMonk]

Everything I have read on the net suggest doing a system restore to the point where "My Documents" was setup back on C:

Otherwise you can do a long winded way which is just create yourself another user account. This will setup everything with its default config, make sure you give your self Admin rights and copy everything from your old user account to the new one the delete the old account.

Hope this helps

 

[marc2003]

just do it manually. make a copy of the folder from d: to the right place on c: and then update the location by browsing to it.

 

[CrazyMonk]

Awesome

 

[jas72]

Bioshock2 doesn't like that people don't store their documents alongside the OS.

Jeez that's a major bug hope someone has to work for nothing to fix that error.

 

[Dano]

Does Bioshock2 still use the UT3 engine? Because it's a known issue with that one, it doesn't like it when the users My Documents folder is the root folder of a drive, other than that it's usually fine.

 

[V_R]

What about a directory/NTFS junction? That would work wouldn't it?

A lot easier that new user profile etc.

 

[marc2003]

this is quite ridiculous really. being able to re-locate the "my documents" folder has been possible since windows 2000 and i would have thought windows itself would make that fact transparent to any applications using it. but it seems these crappy games have been hardcoded to ignore windows and use c:\blah blah... lame.

 

[V_R]

Too late i know but hey sorry.

Posted in the 'official' BS2 thread too.....

Dunno if this has been posted before or not, but just had chance to try and play this after finding out my savegames were not readable by the game as i have moved my documents to another drive...

Seems this game doesn't like it if your doc's are not in the default location. (C:\Users\NAME)

Anyway.....

Heres the fix.

Reason is that the ini file will be pointing to the wrong location for the save games.

1. Go to - C:\users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\Bioshock2\Bios hock2SP.ini
2. Open the .ini file with notepad so you can edit the file
3. Find the line SavePath=Savegames (Use CTRL + F and type savepath into the box, hit find)
4. Change the flollowing...

SavePath=SaveGames to SavePath=H:\Bioshock2\SaveGames Or what ever yours is.

 

[stockhausen]

Awesome

THIS . . . 100%!

You have got to love the way Microsoft's attempt to make Windows "idiot-proof" has been achieved by making it nigh on impossible to do some perfectly reasonable things.

I'm not particularly knocking Microsoft here; many software installation routines nowadays seem to feel that there is absolutely no way that anyone would actually want to choose where they want stuff stored or change their minds at a later date. Have these people not yet caught up with the fact that "The new black is the freedom to choose"

 

[mrk]

Huh!

On Win7 you just remove the default library location for user docs and add the new drive's location though surely, this is what I have done and BS2 as well as all other games work perfectly fine!

It's MUCH better than in Vista where you had to right click properties each user document folder and change location to the new drive's mirror location where you store your documents/game saves etc.

 

[Locke]

Huh!

On Win7 you just remove the default library location for user docs and add the new drive's location though surely, this is what I have done and BS2 as well as all other games work perfectly fine!

It's MUCH better than in Vista where you had to right click properties each user document folder and change location to the new drive's mirror location where you store your documents/game saves etc.

Hmm I've tried that, but many things just save back into that C:\Users directory =/

 

[mrk]

I just checked how I did mine and indeed I used the above, some locations like the "Downloads" folder I don't use so mapped them to my desktop as all downloads go there and I manually archive them later or delete.

Your library store should look like this for each library parent: