DEVELOPER!! Get Your Saves Out Of the ProgramData Folder!!

[Pops]

Get your saves into the Steam folder architecture OR into User\documents\My Games!!!!!!
You are clogging up our SSD's with your current save path! Thanks in advance!

[Pops]

Ideally they should go into the Steam folder architecture so that its compatible with where the user has steam installed (in my case it's D:\steam so my SSD isnt being used for storage). That's the way PC's are headed from now on, so you need to jump on board the bandwagon ASAP.

[GrandPa Gaming NL]

Wow, some people have no manners.... how about please... ever heard of that?

[Ashar]

try using this if you desperate:
mklink /d C:\Path\Of\Original\Folder D:\Path\Of\New\Folder
Allows you to create a ghost directory on programdata, btu teh actual contents are where ever you like, so for me it would look like:
mklink /d C:\ProgramData\ForceOfNature F:\My Savefiles\ForceOfNature

oh, open cmd in admin mode to be sure

[Tajin]

My savegame is currently about 20mb and I doubt it will ever get bigger than maybe 50mb, that is hardly clogging up anything.

[Draxxalon]

It'd be nice if they were at least someplace more "standard" for save files.

[Spectre5]

Originally posted by Ashar:

try using this if you desperate:
mklink /d C:\Path\Of\Original\Folder D:\Path\Of\New\Folder
Allows you to create a ghost directory on programdata, btu teh actual contents are where ever you like, so for me it would look like:
mklink /d C:\ProgramData\ForceOfNature F:\My Savefiles\ForceOfNature

oh, open cmd in admin mode to be sure

I like this!

[Pops]

You guys need to open your eyes.

Making links is not the solution. This developer is not the only developer doing this. Save games, in general, are tossed all over the C: drive. A great example is 7 days to Die which stores its saves in a hidden folder called Roaming of all places...

SSD's right now are small, about 256 Gig, and have been standard issue as the boot drive for a while now. That 256 gig SSD formats out to about 230 gig, of which microsoft and partners use up to about 100 gig. So...add in just a few programs or games and you've clogged the drive.

I'm stuck, just like 1000's of others, trying to get some organization to the data and save systems. I'm not gonna make 100's of manual inks for games and programs, so its up to the developers to solve this and to put game saves in the places I've described above.

Please understand that I'm not being mean to this developer, I'm just identifying he has a serious problem that only he can resolve. It's important to all game owners.

[Draxxalon]

I use the symlink system to relocate my savegames in my dropbox folder, as my saves then exist on all my pcs (home and work), for games that are not using steam cloud.

As for the "roaming" folder, it's just another system folder. Many many games stick their stuff in there (I actually checked it when I was trying to find the saves for this), and it at least makes "some" sense, based on what that folder is - data specific to you as a user, that will be applied to whatever machine you are logged into, if you are on a network that moves data between users in that manner (hence, it "roams") when they move between machines.

Several "Standards" have been attempted over the years (which is why you have these different places that most stuff shows up).

Sadly, several of them only work on one platform/OS, and as such... no real standard exists.

Personally, I prefer defaulting to somewhere in my documents, as I can map that to another location as I see fit. And it's clear that it's game specific, and not an actual game file (which is often unclear when they are stored in the steam folder).

[Syd Khaos]

LMFAO...

So because YOU jumped in the SSD bandwagon you think developers have to code for it?

SSD is still a trend....not the standard.

Get over yourself.....

[Deedlie DoLL]

Originally posted by Pops:

You guys need to open your eyes.

Making links is not the solution. This developer is not the only developer doing this. Save games, in general, are tossed all over the C: drive. A great example is 7 days to Die which stores its saves in a hidden folder called Roaming of all places...

SSD's right now are small, about 256 Gig, and have been standard issue as the boot drive for a while now. That 256 gig SSD formats out to about 230 gig, of which microsoft and partners use up to about 100 gig. So...add in just a few programs or games and you've clogged the drive.

I'm stuck, just like 1000's of others, trying to get some organization to the data and save systems. I'm not gonna make 100's of manual inks for games and programs, so its up to the developers to solve this and to put game saves in the places I've described above.

Please understand that I'm not being mean to this developer, I'm just identifying he has a serious problem that only he can resolve. It's important to all game owners.

Lol so funny to read total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ from someone who don't even know he can block access to his SSD and let only windows program do any change/install on his SSD while all other program/game are sent to another HD.... (yea game save too)
Please before trying to do anything at least go to learn how to use your SSD and stop saying some total random crap......

[Syd Khaos]

Originally posted by ☆☆ Kuro ☆☆:

Lol so funny to read total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ from someone who don't even know he can block access to his SSD and let only windows program do any change/install on his SSD while all other program/game are sent to another HD....
Please before trying to do anything at least go to learn how to use your SSD and stop saying some total random crap......

This happenes EVERY time there is any type of new tech fad.
You get mindless tools hopping on the bandwagon (because that is what tools do) without actually bothering to fully learn said new tech.

And FYI OP, saying things like
"I'm just identifying he has a serious problem that only he can resolve. It's important to all game owners."
makes you look absolutly foolish.

You are speaking like ALL pc gamers do 100% of their gaming vis SSDs....and that is so far from the truth of it.


Get over yourself....
Maybe get your head out of your own ass long enough to actually learn how to use an SSD properly, rather than project your shortcoming onto game developers.

[Pops]

Here's an idea for all the trolls, go someplace else. You're showing your ignorance.

@☆☆ Kuro ☆☆ - you're a dumbass - Just what do you think is going to happen to those programs when they make a call that cant be fulfilled....Some people will always be imbeciles.

@SydKhaos - you're an absolute idiot. There's really nothing else to add to that. The SSD is already a standard. Why dont you check out a few gaming systems. Whine much?

@Draxxalon - I'd agree with using \documents\my games as a standard..as I've already said.

[Zordah]

Pops this is hardly a "serious problem". It is a problem perhaps with YOUR system and there already exists mechanisms like the symlink method to move directories to other places if you don't like the default location.

Besides SSDs are much larger than 256GB nowadays. I'm currently looking at buying a gaming laptop and it comes with 512GB SSD as standard and I am upgrading that to a 1 TB SSD for another $250 or so.

There are also TONS of gaming laptops that come with non-SSD drives usually in the order of 512GB-1TB as standard.

So get off your high horse, toughen up and just deal with it.

[Pops]

@zordah - Actually zordah, this is a REAL problem. Many many tech pubs have already published advice on how to deal with it and have taken issue with program developers who aren't programming smartly. I just agree with them.

I will probably be doing like you are, and increasing the size of the SSD. For most folks buying tho, symlinks are a pita. Its hard to tell what you've done without a specialized program to tell you what's been done to the system as you keep making them.

As for being on a high horse...I don't think I am. I think am an average gamer and I bought a gaming system...the SSD came as standard equipment. Most Windows 10 gaming systems are like that now. I have over 140 games through Steam and about half keep their saves in a good visible place...the other half do NOT.

[Zordah]

@Pops - Well that's a much better and measured response than "Yo devs fix your ****" :)

I do agree it is annoying but it is impossible to get every developer to decide and follow on a standard for this even further compounded by different Windows versions etc.

The only thing you can do is move the folder to a better location and symlink it and just live with it :)