How do I change the save location of the game?

[The Black Swordsman]

Turns I've got two different drives on my computer, C drive thats limited in space, and D drive that has 900 GB's to spare. I discovered that Witcher 3 loves to force saves to my C drive and even after cut and pasting the save folder from C drive to D drive, witcher 3 still saves to my C drive. Any thing I can do to fix this?

[Vellari]

Don't think you can.

Indirectly though, you can move your entire user home folder to different drive (which is what Witcher uses, hardcoded).

Right click on "My Documents" folder > properties > location > move where ever you like. You can do the same to pictures/movies etc if you are running out of space on your OS drive.

[KriKitBoNeZ]

The saves aren't very large.

[Macke]

You use steams function to change install location

[KriKitBoNeZ]

Originally posted by Carl Gustaf XVI Bernadotte:

You use steams function to change install location

If you had reading comprehension, you would see that is pointless since the game saves in the documents folder regardless of where it is installed.

[Vellari]

Originally posted by KriKitBoNeZ:

The saves aren't very large.

Indeed not, at quick glance I have 333 files in the gamesaves folder (two files per save: actual file + thumbnail image), so over 150 savepoints.

Total size: 332MB, should be insignificant.

Moving the entire home folder though, propably will make a difference.

[cheshirm]

dont know your computer expertise or what OS you are using but win 10 has symbolic links. might be something to try.

[Vellari]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

I would not tamper with your Documents folder unless you enjoy replaying all of your games again.

That is correct. Manually copying/moving will not accomplish anything as the games (or any other program for that matter) will not find it. The reason I posted instruction in earlier post how to properly move it, which updates the mentioned symbolic link, which already exists anyway.

It is stored in registry if you wish to manually verify it (do not mess with registry unless you know what you are doing): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal

If that link is updated accordingly makes no difference where the files physically are on your hard drives.

[c a r b o n g o]

Originally posted by Vellari:

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

I would not tamper with your Documents folder unless you enjoy replaying all of your games again.

That is correct. Manually copying/moving will not accomplish anything as the games (or any other program for that matter) will not find it. The reason I posted instruction in earlier post how to properly move it, which updates the mentioned symbolic link, which already exists anyway.

It is stored in registry if you wish to manually verify it (do not mess with registry unless you know what you are doing): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal

If that link is updated accordingly makes no difference where the files physically are on your hard drives.

WOW THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Just synched my OneDrives locations and then figured out that I had a directories conflict on my second device, editing these lines solved my problems with game saves synch :D