Saved games - why oh why oh why!?!?!

[BubbySoup]

...do some games insist on putting their saves in the most bizarro of places ?! I've never understood why they can't just keep them in the actual game directory in, ooo I don't know, a folder labelled saves perhaps.

All my games are on a separate drive to Windows and my gaming PC is only used for gaming, so there is no stuff in docs/pics etc and very little in the way of progs installed on C. Anyway had to do a re-install of Windows and almost forgot about saves in docs, but carefully backed it up at the last minute along with the saved games folder.

Of course, totally forgot about my Stalker SOC saves - I was about 75% of the way through playing with a tough mod, so a lot of hours spent on it.

It stores its saves in the public docs folder by default - which is now gone

This has made me an extremely sad panda

 

[Stelly]

If I'm going to format my OS I ensure that I make a backup to another location just incase. I use Macrium Reflect to take an image of the OS and then keep it for 6 months to ensure that any save games that I might have missed I can get from the image

Stelly

 

[Omaeka]

Some games save in docs, some save in appdata, some save in the steam folder, some save in the game directory. I agree, it's dumb as ****.

 

[arc@css]

That sucks, man...

 

[wunkley]

...do some games insist on putting their saves in the most bizarro of places ?! I've never understood why they can't just keep them in the actual game directory in, ooo I don't know, a folder labelled saves perhaps.

All my games are on a separate drive to Windows and my gaming PC is only used for gaming, so there is no stuff in docs/pics etc and very little in the way of progs installed on C. Anyway had to do a re-install of Windows and almost forgot about saves in docs, but carefully backed it up at the last minute along with the saved games folder.

Of course, totally forgot about my Stalker SOC saves - I was about 75% of the way through playing with a tough mod, so a lot of hours spent on it.

It stores its saves in the public docs folder by default - which is now gone

This has made me an extremely sad panda

Totally agree. This has always, always baffled me. They should always be in the same install folder as the game. In a folder called 'saved games'.

Or, .......just thought, is it if several people use one machine and each have a windows profile, they then have their own saves?

 

[Deewon]

Yeah really annoying. Especially when you lose saves for game like Fallout and Skyrim. Just lose all will to live.

I usually just back up everything, my docs, app data etc. Then pull it all off after format. Anything I dont use in 6-12months I clean off my backup.

 

[~>Dg<~]

my dirt 3 used to pee me off.

saved it backed it up then steam says no sorry dont like it. must have completed it so many times

 

[Omaeka]

Windows originally wanted a folder as a default called My Saves in documents that a few games adhere to, but then they also gave people creating software registry options to place a game's info in a pretty nifty My Games tab in your computer that looked a little bit like Steam's library. Seems most developers gave both of these up years ago though.

 

[Frenzy]

I prefer they all save in one location too. The most common place appears to be documents\my games\<game name>\

I like it that way. Stuff hidden in appdata is just silly and frustrating.

 

[BubbySoup]

Totally agree. This has always, always baffled me. They should always be in the same install folder as the game. In a folder called 'saved games'.

Or, .......just thought, is it if several people use one machine and each have a windows profile, they then have their own saves?

Yeah, this is probably the number one reason games store their saves in that manner, but could easily be worked around by just having you create profiles from within the game. That way your saves won't even show up to other profiles and they could all be stored in a folder in the game install dir.

 

[andicole0]

Have a look at gamesave-manager it might help.

Andi.

 

[Flubble]

i'm sure i used to have a game that asked me where i wanted to save the save to

they should do this

 

[BubbySoup]

Have a look at gamesave-manager it might help.

Andi.

Thank you, looks very handy

 

[Raumarik]

Crashplan sorts out backups of my saved games although I use Steam cloud whenever possible - although it has messed up a couple of times..

 

[ci_newman]

Steam Cloud f.t.w

 

[KIA]

If only they would all use C:\Users\<user>\Documents\My Games

I hate having random folders in My Docs.