the only game ive ever had issues with was batman:aa. if you cant find them google "game name save location".
some are in the games install dir, some are in my documents\publisher, some in my documents\my games\publisher. having done this fairly recently, here's what i know.ġ. again highly unlikely and still impossible to know which files are important.Īs you can see there's just no good way for Steam to figure out or anticipate where a game is going to generate its user data files, at best it can only make guesses based on convention. But again not likely since the convention isn't agreed upon by everyone (even Microsoft stores user data across many different locations, though typically Windows games seem to settle on storing in Documents folders in this regard Linux/Mac is a lot more consistent always storing in the user's home dir)Ĭ) hook every single call in every single binary of the game when a file handle is opened for writing. This leaves Steam with only very precarious options if they wanted to do as you say:Ī) trust game devs to tell them ahead of time where they're going to be saving extra any files (not likely, since devs are rarely that coordinated, and file locations can be many and change over time).ī) trust game devs to use common conventions/standards. Once the (game) application is launched it's free to generate as many files wherever it wants, Steam only controls the initial download and installation of the application, not how it behaves during runtime. no way I should move regisrtry entries manually. Do I just reinstall the client and it picks up the games on the other drive? If I could just make shortcut to Steam on my desktop once I get the new win install sorted and everything worked I'd be amazed - wanting someone to tell me that does work - ha! Seriously though any advice appreciated. Steam is installed on the 'D' drive in windows (1TB HDD where SSD is main OS drive 'C') so will the Steam install be okay if I reinstall win7 on the SSD? I know the main Steam files are on the HDD but I'm not sure about saves etc. The thing is, since I got the new rig, I've built up some saves on Deus EX and MW3 which I'd like to keep. I have a separate 1TB old school spinning HDD with all my work stuff on (obviously backed up elsewhere too) it so that'll be okay. Going to reinstall on the main SSD when I overclock, just so I can install over a corrupted (by me hacking) partition easily, and do whatever I want without fear of losing data.
Found a few problems with SSD firmware and flashed it. Due to the modifictions I wanted to do a test install first - just to see how it goes under Prime95 at stock and all that. I recently spent a _lot_ of money on my gaming rig.
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