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[adolf hamster]

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]?

 

[adolf hamster]

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.

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?

 

[adolf hamster]

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

 

[adolf hamster]

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