Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout: New Vegas

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Smoke Mar 23, 2019 @ 4:39pm
Is there anyway to change the save files location?
By default the saves are in the My Games folder in your Documents. Is there anyway to change the save game location? Because I have my documents set to my HDD and I am wanting to set the save files to my SSD so they will load faster in-game.
Last edited by Smoke; Mar 23, 2019 @ 4:39pm
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Jurassic Fart 2 Mar 23, 2019 @ 7:49pm 
No. This requires tweaking your operating system, the environment in which this game operates. I have tried sanctioned / supported / official means of changing default locations for system folders, and the changes SEEM to be accepted by Windows, but then I end up with TWO such "default" locations, and good luck figuring out what documents end up where (also results in icon assignment problems for these folders)!

You can try this,[www.dummies.com], but…like I said, good luck (Cross your fingers!).

It would be different if the game stored these files in the installation directory, but this is a legacy game. You can share this game among multiple Steam accounts, but there is no profile differentiation—all accounts will use the same directory, the Documents directory. Of course, playing on any but the owner account will bug the crap out of your achievements on non-owner accounts, so if you give a squat about that kind of thing, I wouldn't recommend it.

My specific criticism of Windows in this matter: I specified a folder on a non-OS drive (a drive upon which Windows was not resident, but had access to) for Music. That was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ disaster. I got around that by storing NOTHING in my Music folder except a shortcut to where I really keep my music…gigabytes and gigabytes of music, which confuses the crap out of Windows Media Player Library! So, stopped using WMP, now exclusively VLC Media Player. VLC could care LESS where the Hell your files are, just as long as the addresses in your playlists are system-valid.
Last edited by Jurassic Fart 2; Mar 23, 2019 @ 7:57pm
talgaby Mar 23, 2019 @ 11:23pm 
Make a symbolic link (or, more precisely, a junction). This is the only reliable and safe way when it comes to protected folders.
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Date Posted: Mar 23, 2019 @ 4:39pm
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