Save Location

[AHadley]

Is it possible to change the save location of Battlezone II (or any game which saves in a similar manner) to a different folder (ideally the Windows 7 default of C:\Users\Anthony\Saved Games instead of My Documents)?

[TheJamsh]

I don't think so unless there's a preference in windows somewhere, but recently they seem to have got pretty anal about arranging files for particular games in one place.

[AHadley]

I don't think so unless there's a preference in windows somewhere, but recently they seem to have got pretty anal about arranging files for particular games in one place.

There isn't a preference for it anywhere I can see, no.

Most games tend to specify their own save locations, and this always used to be in the game's install directory, but this would cause problems for limited users, which is why most now save to My Documents, or some similar user-specific folder.

I don't like My Documents being cluttered by however many games.

[GSH]

The call to get the 'saved games' folder, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762188%28VS.85%29.aspx works in Vista and up, only. Microsoft had a perfectly reasonable set of 'CSIDL's that were usable from Win9x and up (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762494%28VS.85%29.aspx ) which they decided to go and replace with something different and not really much better at all. If they'd added another CSIDL for Vista, and made it return a "I don't know what you mean by that" on pre-Vista, I could have made the change. But, to use the KNOWNFOLDERID system, you have to link against Vista-only libs. And then things won't run on pre-Vista. That's the story of most of Vista; unfortunately they didn't wise up and fix this part for Win7.

Personally, I prefer My Docs/My Games/<GAMENAME> , as it makes my monthly system backups much easier to run -- I just grab all of MyDocs for the backup.

-- GSH