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adolf hamster

adolf hamster

adolf hamster

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get games from steam installs to have their save folders [that many defult create in "my documents"] pointed to a certain directory?

i do have a my games folder that the majority of games save to, however certain games [metro, arma 2, assasins creed series, battlefield [origin admittedly], need for speed, theif, trials and the witcher 2] seem to like my documets creating a terrible mess.

any way to force them to change to a certain directory [ie inside the my games folder where the mess is meant to be]?
 
meandu229 said:
I would think you would need a game by game fix. It would be nice if they all just naturally went to 1 folder though wouldn't it.
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I figured itd be the hard way, but steam doesnt seem to bother asking where to put it.

thing is I havent the foggiest how they change the location, im guessing its a case of messing about log files for each game?
 
It's not down to Steam it's down to each individual game. I guess most of them will be hard coded to put the saves in My Docs and you may not be able to change it.
 
As Clav suggested. I've tried to keep all my games separate from my C: drive, but unfortunately some of the save data ends up there.
 
oh dear, guess i'm going to have to stick to my usual method of having a discrete folder for tidy documents.

thanks anyway, now just for the backups to let me nuke my c drive so i can run off my ssd once it arrives
 
If I were you, I would leave the documents folder on you current drive and leave it in your PC as a 2nd drive once you have the SSD. When the SSD arrives you can just point the doc library at the folder on the non-ssd drive and use it as normal. This way your docs are preserved through OS reinstalls and not taking up valuable fast storage space on the SSD.

Personally all of my user folders so docs, pictures, videos, music, favourites, desktop etc are all on alternate drives. To change the location just go to c:\users\username right-click on one you want to move then put the new location in the Location tab.
 
the plan is the ssd is going to be just windows and certain steam games [whatever is hdd heavy]

current drive will then be docs and the rest of the steam library, but to get rid of windows on that drive i'm going to nuke it and restore from a backup, although moving the libraries might be handy. although tbh i'm probably just going to use shortcuts because no actual documents of any importance will be on the ssd
 
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