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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0022446AI War 2SuggestionDec 31, 2019 4:55 pm
ReporterAdmiral Assigned ToChris_McElligottPark  
Status closedResolutionwon't fix 
Product Version1.025 Hotfix 
Summary0022446: Move save games to Home Directory (for ease of backup)
DescriptionOn Windows 10:

Many of the games I have these days put their saves & configurations into this location (your home\Documents\MyGames\Game Name). (Examples: Into the Breach, FTL, Path of Exile, Borderlands 3, F1 2019, Rocket League, They Are Billions, so you see it's not particularly genre-specific nor AAA vs Indie.)

I suggest putting the saves & other "Player Data" into there. I don't know how that will impact Steam save syncing. I do know I am not a fan of having important data to back up in the same directories as programs, because I then have to manually tell my back up program to back up that directory.

There may be a similar "home-based" location for Mac (e.g., Library/Application Support) and Linux (~/.aiwar2/...).

Thanks!
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Sigma7

Dec 28, 2019 4:44 pm

reporter   ~0055205

That's the Windows XP directory, and that OS is depricated.

If using Windows Vista or newer, saved games should be found in %userprofile%\Saved Games\ - and technically it should be taken from a function call described here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/knownfolderid

Admiral

Dec 28, 2019 7:47 pm

reporter   ~0055206

I don't mind where it is, as long as it is located in my home folder somewhere where things get backed up by default. :)

Admiral

Dec 28, 2019 10:17 pm

reporter   ~0055208

On my gaming PC, I see several games using @Sigma7's Saved Games directory:

The Outer Worlds, Elite Dangerous, Steel Division, etc.

Most use a Vendor\GameName subdirectory, but TOW uses something else. TOW is a Windows Store game, though. It has __LOCAL__ and some ################ subdirectory.

Chris_McElligottPark

Dec 31, 2019 4:18 pm

administrator   ~0055230

I know this is preferred by some folks, and there are certain benefits, but it is something that I've considered for the last 11 years and decided on repeatedly that in the folder is best in terms of general portability and a few other factors, particularly cross-OS. It does have other disadvantages such as the note about backups, but we had a lot of public discussions and debates about this for a number of our games (since every game we ever made works like this), and ultimately came down to this location. Moving the location just for some people wouldn't work as it would break steam sync among many other things, and OSes tend to be kind of problematic, especially older windows ones.

BadgerBadger

Dec 31, 2019 4:21 pm

manager   ~0055231

Keep in mind that you can just make a symlink from "AIW2 Saves Directory" to wherever you want...

Chris_McElligottPark

Dec 31, 2019 4:55 pm

administrator   ~0055233

Very true -- I've done that for some other software on windows 10, even.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Dec 28, 2019 3:00 pm Admiral New Issue
Dec 28, 2019 4:44 pm Sigma7 Note Added: 0055205
Dec 28, 2019 7:47 pm Admiral Note Added: 0055206
Dec 28, 2019 10:17 pm Admiral Note Added: 0055208
Dec 28, 2019 10:18 pm Admiral Summary Move save games to Documents\My Games\AI War 2 => Move save games to Home Directory (for ease of backup)
Dec 31, 2019 4:18 pm Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To => Chris_McElligottPark
Dec 31, 2019 4:18 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status new => closed
Dec 31, 2019 4:18 pm Chris_McElligottPark Resolution open => won't fix
Dec 31, 2019 4:18 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0055230
Dec 31, 2019 4:21 pm BadgerBadger Note Added: 0055231
Dec 31, 2019 4:55 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0055233