Ever since the file-deleting update fiasco, I've just been using my custom folders pinned to quick access. I don't even look at the default documents folder anymore.
They have already done that with vista where they request people to store APP DATA into appdata.
Then Linux and open sores became popular and now there are folders in the userfolder starting with a dot.
I have multiple folders of vidya saving their configs, saves, and tempfiles in Documents, ProgramData, AppData. And they are all in different branching folders with no consistency at all. It's over. They fricked my PC and turned it into a cumdumpster. Game devs won.
You're a moron >appdata for storing per-user application-specific programs and files >programdata for systemwide application-specific files >Documents for storing some saves because devs are moronic >registry for settings and sharing values with integrated solutions like group policy
It's not that hard.
No it's not. There's all kinds of shit in /home/$USER/ like .bash_history .cache errorlog .gitconfig .gnupg .var .mozilla .local .pki .steam .ssh .wget-hsts .xinitrc .Xresources
>system-wide configfiles in /etc >wait lol there's some in /usr/lib too >oh wait there's more shit like apt in /var >and some more shit in /proc like my fan speed lol >shit there's a ton of dotfiles in my $HOME directory >and even more shit in ~/.config
lingers, everyone.
>saves should just go into the same game directory the game installs to.
Bad idea. Vidya are expected to go inside program files, which requires admin permissions to write in. Hence they use other folders.
>Most games by default go to the documents folder and it gets really cluttered
Not anymore. I wish it was still My Documents. It's always a mix of AppData > Local/LocalLow/Roaming now.
This should be illegal
I installed games on my F: drive, I didn't give them permission to write on my C: drive
There's no reason for them to write my C: especi when 99% of those files are configs and save data, ooohh I'm guessing they're too moronic to make this shit in the GAME folder, you know, where the GAME is
Frick you OP now I'm mad
It's REALLY annoying if you have multiple drives. You install a game on drive #1 and then the game dumps files on drive #2 anyway
This should be illegal
I installed games on my F: drive, I didn't give them permission to write on my C: drive
There's no reason for them to write my C: especi when 99% of those files are configs and save data, ooohh I'm guessing they're too moronic to make this shit in the GAME folder, you know, where the GAME is
Frick you OP now I'm mad
Ever since the file-deleting update fiasco, I've just been using my custom folders pinned to quick access. I don't even look at the default documents folder anymore.
If you install windows anything on linux all the files the windows program creates end up in the virtual C drive used by that wine instance, not your main filesystem.
>If you install windows anything on linux all the files the windows program creates end up in the virtual C drive used by that wine instance, not your main filesystem.
Not when I did that.
>Devs could just force games to be installed in locations where UAC is not required like C:Games and then place all the configuration/saves/temp in Registry and Game's dedicated folder only. >They instead take a shit all over your PC and turn it into a cumdumpster
BASED
Yes, because vidya devs are fricking israelites that don't want anyone tinkering and modding with shit they OWN a license to. Clown world.
>saves should just go into the same game directory the game installs to.
Bad idea. Vidya are expected to go inside program files, which requires admin permissions to write in. Hence they use other folders.
Why does it need to go to program files? Why not force all games to C:Games? Why not you stupid fricking bastard?
Literally any program has access to Program files as well, you just need to run them as administrator and it takes a single click on the average user profile on OS. Vidya devs are just the most incompetent stupid morons on planet earth
11 months ago
Anonymous
>you just need to run them as administrator
That's the point. 99% of people don't do that you tech-illiterate moron. It's simply bad PR to request permission to frick up someone's computer to get your game to run.
In general, the fewer privileges a program needs, the better.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Are you a fricking moron or something? I'm saying that devs should force all games into C:Games which is not under UAC, which would make it so people DON'T need admin permissions and the devs DON'T need admin permissions to manage and interact with config and save files on fly. You are a fricking low iq Black person cattle blackest gorilla moron on planet earth, shut the frick up you stupid fricking high school drop out mutt.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>devs should force all games into C:Games which is not under UAC >which would make it so people DON'T need admin permissions
That would make game files, saves, and user configs available to other users and any non-privileged process for writing, you tech-illiterate moron. >the devs DON'T need admin permissions to manage and interact with config and save files on fly
They just use appdata, which is there precisely to store per-user settings.
Not even Linuxtards are this moronic holy shit.
11 months ago
Anonymous
You are literally just backpedaling and using different arguments every time, make up your mind low IQ moron.
The files are interactable anyways just by right licking them and unchecking read-only in properties. There is zero reason to use the current systems, they are shit and never consistent. You are a moron mutt that cannot use a computer.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>That would make game files, saves, and user configs available to other users and any non-privileged process for writing
And?
11 months ago
Anonymous
>babby is computer-illiterate
par for the course
>want to mod a game >look up the mod folder >it's in the fricking roaming folder
Frick you you fricking Black folk. Stop doing this shit. I put the game on another drive for a reason. There'a also the games that automatically install in some moronic folder.
I have a poorman's solution.
It's called symlinks
If you make a symlink programs think the files are stored on the documents folder even thought it's stored somewhere different (for example a 2nd drive). It's not perfect since you will still see the folder there but it won't take any space.
>coworker female needs to look something in his computer >tells me he needs to look in something name appdata >literally go to execute and write %appdata% and folder opens >"hey, how do you know that anon, you must be a cool hacker" >mfw can't tell her that it's because this is where all the savegames of the H-Games i usually play are placed in
I'm surprised neither Microsoft nor Steam standardized a savegame folder.
There is also zero application control, effectively every program you run has more control over the system than the user.
I hope these morons would do it but they don't care. Game storefronts and launchers should be forced to install into a single Games folder and all the config/save files should be in the folders of the games. You can easily create a uninstaller that deletes the game but leaves the config and saved files inside of the folders untouched. But they never will do that because they are lazy unorganized fricks, just look at the dogshit meme unreal engine shader compiling and 25 GB of VRAM needed for games that look as mediocre as 4GB VRAM 2016 games
it really is fricking horrendous these moron coders just leave that shit wherever they had it in-house during development, they should just put it in the my games folder like sane people instead of cluttering the shit out of mydocs
Yah I really hate that. Hgames don't fricking do that. Come on. Hell, I pirated Wasteland 3 recentely and it also put the saves and stuff in the drive I installed it too. So it's really just some devs that are incompetent.
>turn on console >put disc in >It works
Computers are for working, like sorting files and typing things - which is exactly what you end up doing when you try to play games, while i'm already playing them
>turn on console >put disc in >It works
we both know that's not true anymore, you'll have to update you game and console.
Oh and let's not forget paying to play on the internet you already pay for.
I still have a ps2/ps3/n64 that i use regularly and mostly play single player games to begin with, even on my modern consoles. Updates are fricking annoying, but usually once I install a game, thats as much as I ever have to do
>turn on console >put disc in >It works
we both know that's not true anymore, you'll have to update you game and console.
Oh and let's not forget paying to play on the internet you already pay for.
Also PC Propaganda >we both know that's not true anymore, you'll have to update you game and console.
Get a physical copy that isn't shovelware tier. that's literally 90% or more of the physical copies out there. >Oh and let's not forget paying to play on the internet you already pay for.
False, you pay for using their servers.
>Get a physical copy that isn't shovelware tier. that's literally 90% or more of the physical copies out there.
Every single game is incomplete on launch and requires updates, plus firmware updates are mandatory.
>False, you pay for using their servers.
No, you don't, it's peer to peer connections.
Stop being a battered Black person.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Every single game is incomplete on launch and requires updates, plus firmware updates are mandatory.
I have never had any issues. I never had to update or anything. Maybe you think because on the PC it is like that, that consoles are the same. >No, you don't, it's peer to peer connections.
And how do you think these peer to peer systems find each other dickhead?
11 months ago
Anonymous
>I don't play videogames at all and am deeply tech illiterate
You know what, be a battered Black person, I don't care.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>>I don't play videogames at all and am deeply tech illiterate >You know what, be a battered Black person, I don't care.
No it's because, you don't understand that a server is required for match making. a peer to peer system works very well locally because they can broadcast a message. you can't do that on the internet, you have to go through many IP's to find a person to connect to.
>turn on console >put disc in >It works
we both know that's not true anymore, you'll have to update you game and console.
Oh and let's not forget paying to play on the internet you already pay for.
>Turn on ps5 >Have to connect the pozzed controller where the mic is on by default, sending all voice communications to Sony servers >Controller needs an update yet again, put it off for 24 hours >Have to sign into PlayStation >Firmware update required to do so >Download and install firmware >Alright, time to play >Put disc inside PlayStation >Installing the data off the disc, please wait 20 minutes >Finally done, start the game >downloading a software update, please wai >It downloads and installs >Start game >30 page Eula IN ALL CAPS SO YOU KNOW IT'S SERIOUS enforcing no no-no words or you'll lose access to the game with no refunds, they also record and harvest your text and voice communications to sell to 3rd party AI trainer companies >accept, start the game >20 minutes long unskippable intro cutscene, mandatory tutorial levels
Modern gaming is such fricking trash
I forgot >After agreeing to the Eula you get thrown to the store page and shown all the daily store deals where you can save 10% and get an exp bonus for an hour if you buy the $150 dollar game currency package
There is 4 post arguing this. I always wonder, why? Why try to convince, to advocate to an unwilling recipetent, about PCgaming? I've game on console and PC and prefer PC, but I won't say why to someone whose clearly biased against the PC. They're not going to care, you create a PC with a 4060 and give it to them with all game in existence and they will still go back to console
I'm not implying this doesn't happen in reverse. I'm saying that if someone is hostile, they're looking for a contest of ideas, with no referee or way to win or lose. So what's the point?
I think this guy must be gatekeeping so hard that he salts the earth. He can't be real.
PS1 gen was nice. PS2 gen was nice. Past that, "backwards" stopped existing and I started having more flexibility in PC gaming, for the pricetag.
Yeah, surprises like wii modding did happen, which were nice, but there's little to no adventure still. You pop game in, you have fun in it. Pre social media you could tell friends and family and that was your world of metainteraction.
Honestly, there might be a bit of a potential for metagaming by having a console and opening social media on a phone but, I had less than that going into gaming. Gaming mags still exist, bookstores less so, bla bla bla metagame.
TLDR: Consoles can't into customization; no adventure involved aside from the game. Metagame is better on PC.
Games are notoriously poor code, they should be sandboxed at all times.
Ironically running console games via emulator is generally cleaner to native ports due to the emulator creating an environment the foreign code requires
It would be possible to make a tool/mod that fixes this. Usage would be something like this.
(1) Find the folder containing the game's main EXE. To that folder, copy myfix.exe and create myfix.ini:
[Settings]
GameExe=TheWitcher.exe
SavesDir=F:/MyShit/witcher1
(2) Start the game by running myfix.exe instead of TheWitcher.exe.
(3) Whenever the game tries to write to:
C:/Users/Anon/Documents/The Witcher/save1.dat
it instead writes to:
F:/MyShit/witcher1/Users/Anon/Documents/The Witcher/save1.dat
I could make the myfix.exe I describe, but I'm not sure how many people care about this, or whether faffing around with ini files would actually be an improvement over just putting up with a cluttered documents folder. (Or how many people would be willing to run a file called "myfix.exe" posted on Ganker.)
Except this way you'd have to change how the games behave when it saves and when it loads, which is not a one solution fits all. You could on the other hand make a hidden symlink for all the folders you don't want to show in Documents, but is tedious and would have to be after having the game save at least once. Though, it could be somewhat made automatic by using the same process ludusavi uses when backing up saves
Patching the system call table isn't a bright way to go about fixing this.
I'd need to patch all functions that take a path (CreateFile etc) and apply identical logic for all of them.
With that done, the plan would be to use some simple heuristic to determine whether a path looks like a settings/save location, i.e. if it's in <system drive>:/Users. Those reads and writes get changed to a different path, others go through as-is.
I'm sure there would be some edge cases to handle but it feels completely doable.
>Move and redirect "Documents" folder from C:users<username> to D:Profile so it easily survives OS reinstalls and get bloat off the C: drive >Some games have the path hardcoded to C:users, still save their shit on C:users<username>Documents and don't use the "personal" shell folder variable, despite the folder no longer being located there
Looking at you MGR:Revengance
This should be illegal
I installed games on my F: drive, I didn't give them permission to write on my C: drive
There's no reason for them to write my C: especi when 99% of those files are configs and save data, ooohh I'm guessing they're too moronic to make this shit in the GAME folder, you know, where the GAME is
Frick you OP now I'm mad
shut up antisemite
not sure if its witcher 1 or 3, but holy shit each save is like 50mb and in one play through your save folder can reach 200gb
No problem, just have a separate 2 TB drive where you keep all of your old saved games which you back up (5 hours) every month 🙂
you could technically move all the folders into the my games folder and replace the originals with symbolic links to where you moved them, and then mark them as hidden, but that might not work for games, and is moronic because you can also just mark those folders as hidden if you really can't stand the clutter.
anything i don't need to access regularly especially empty folders i just mark as hidden
>moved default screenshots folder to a separate hard drive >unplugged hard drive and moved it to another computer >screenshotting no longer works on first computer due to windows not knowing a folder to put the file >have to download a sketchy .bat file that restores the default location
Remember when gearbox tried to sell gold key microtransactions and people found out you could just edit a notepad file and give yourself infinite gold keys? Good times
>want to mod a game >look up the mod folder >it's in the fricking roaming folder
Frick you you fricking Black folk. Stop doing this shit. I put the game on another drive for a reason. There'a also the games that automatically install in some moronic folder.
I unironically miss when all the files were in the actual installation folder instead of deep in the user folders of the OS.
Why the frick? Who asked for this change?
You have the game in installed in one folder. You have all of its related files in said folder.
Why would you ever split it up?
because >programs/vidya go in privileged directory so only admin can install/remove them >user data goes in user's directory to keep it safe from other users
It's not rocket science homosexual.
i prefer my save games going to the documents folder.
1) you will always know where they are, vs some frickoff obscure directory buried under some appdata folder of the company who made the game's name that you don't know
2) i can just cloud sync one folder and all my game saves are backed up
3) you will never be a real woman
100% FRICK THIS SHIT
I got embarrassed in a Zoom presentation last year when I was trying to find a PPT in my documents folder and these games I don't want to show made save folders
Ever since the file-deleting update fiasco, I've just been using my custom folders pinned to quick access. I don't even look at the default documents folder anymore.
>file-deleting update
?
Some years ago W10 shipped an update that deleted everything in user's home folders for some people.
I'm glad I always refuse to update.
I Wish MS would just rename the saved games folder to Games and require game devs to put game files there.
>and require game devs to put game files there
And how would they do that?
They have already done that with vista where they request people to store APP DATA into appdata.
Then Linux and open sores became popular and now there are folders in the userfolder starting with a dot.
What's the problem here?
I have multiple folders of vidya saving their configs, saves, and tempfiles in Documents, ProgramData, AppData. And they are all in different branching folders with no consistency at all. It's over. They fricked my PC and turned it into a cumdumpster. Game devs won.
You're a moron
>appdata for storing per-user application-specific programs and files
>programdata for systemwide application-specific files
>Documents for storing some saves because devs are moronic
>registry for settings and sharing values with integrated solutions like group policy
It's not that hard.
winblows everyone, all my shit in one .config folder
No it's not. There's all kinds of shit in /home/$USER/ like .bash_history .cache errorlog .gitconfig .gnupg .var .mozilla .local .pki .steam .ssh .wget-hsts .xinitrc .Xresources
>system-wide configfiles in /etc
>wait lol there's some in /usr/lib too
>oh wait there's more shit like apt in /var
>and some more shit in /proc like my fan speed lol
>shit there's a ton of dotfiles in my $HOME directory
>and even more shit in ~/.config
lingers, everyone.
all saves should just go into the same game directory the game installs to.
>saves should just go into the same game directory the game installs to.
Bad idea. Vidya are expected to go inside program files, which requires admin permissions to write in. Hence they use other folders.
PC games don't let you pick where the save files are stored. Most games by default go to the documents folder and it gets really cluttered
>Most games by default go to the documents folder and it gets really cluttered
Not anymore. I wish it was still My Documents. It's always a mix of AppData > Local/LocalLow/Roaming now.
see
It's REALLY annoying if you have multiple drives. You install a game on drive #1 and then the game dumps files on drive #2 anyway
I fricking hate this.
If I install you on D, you frick only with D.
Never happens.
OP has autism.
>create a save in an Alicesoft game
>creates a new folder in my documents folder
Frickin' Japs.
chooses save folder during installation
WTF THATS NOT WHERE I WANT IT
This should be illegal
I installed games on my F: drive, I didn't give them permission to write on my C: drive
There's no reason for them to write my C: especi when 99% of those files are configs and save data, ooohh I'm guessing they're too moronic to make this shit in the GAME folder, you know, where the GAME is
Frick you OP now I'm mad
>using proprietary spyware
you deserved it.
If you install windows games on Linux you will have the same issue.
If you install games on Linux, they won't run.
>games on Linux, they won't run.
based linuxchads are immune to distractions
If you install windows anything on linux all the files the windows program creates end up in the virtual C drive used by that wine instance, not your main filesystem.
>If you install windows anything on linux all the files the windows program creates end up in the virtual C drive used by that wine instance, not your main filesystem.
Not when I did that.
Turn off desktop integration in winecfg, it's a shitty feature I've had disabled for so long I forgot it's on by default in vanilla wine.
>Devs could just force games to be installed in locations where UAC is not required like C:Games and then place all the configuration/saves/temp in Registry and Game's dedicated folder only.
>They instead take a shit all over your PC and turn it into a cumdumpster
BASED
>where UAC is not needed
But they WANT it to be in a location that requires UAC. That way only the Admin account can touch the files there.
Yes, because vidya devs are fricking israelites that don't want anyone tinkering and modding with shit they OWN a license to. Clown world.
Why does it need to go to program files? Why not force all games to C:Games? Why not you stupid fricking bastard?
>own a license to
only to play the game goy.
>Why not force all games to C:Games
because any program has access to that directory you moron.
Literally any program has access to Program files as well, you just need to run them as administrator and it takes a single click on the average user profile on OS. Vidya devs are just the most incompetent stupid morons on planet earth
>you just need to run them as administrator
That's the point. 99% of people don't do that you tech-illiterate moron. It's simply bad PR to request permission to frick up someone's computer to get your game to run.
In general, the fewer privileges a program needs, the better.
Are you a fricking moron or something? I'm saying that devs should force all games into C:Games which is not under UAC, which would make it so people DON'T need admin permissions and the devs DON'T need admin permissions to manage and interact with config and save files on fly. You are a fricking low iq Black person cattle blackest gorilla moron on planet earth, shut the frick up you stupid fricking high school drop out mutt.
>devs should force all games into C:Games which is not under UAC
>which would make it so people DON'T need admin permissions
That would make game files, saves, and user configs available to other users and any non-privileged process for writing, you tech-illiterate moron.
>the devs DON'T need admin permissions to manage and interact with config and save files on fly
They just use appdata, which is there precisely to store per-user settings.
Not even Linuxtards are this moronic holy shit.
You are literally just backpedaling and using different arguments every time, make up your mind low IQ moron.
The files are interactable anyways just by right licking them and unchecking read-only in properties. There is zero reason to use the current systems, they are shit and never consistent. You are a moron mutt that cannot use a computer.
>That would make game files, saves, and user configs available to other users and any non-privileged process for writing
And?
>babby is computer-illiterate
par for the course
>he can't into junctions
homosexual
I DO NOT GIVE A FRICK IF MY PROGRAMS HAVE ACCESS TO MY GAMES. IT IS NOT BANKING SOFTWARE. STOP STRINGING YOUR SHITTY FILES ALL OVER MY COMPUTER
Bro you literally did give them permission when you clicked ok on the UAC prompt.
test
You idiots actually use the Windows default folders?
this plus using a save game manager app for backups
99% of this thread is self-inflicted autism
For me? It's when vidya just duplicate in control panel after you launch them on steam.
>install football manager to f drive
>every player portrait and kit is saved in documents along with every 250mb save file
I have a poorman's solution.
It's called symlinks
If you make a symlink programs think the files are stored on the documents folder even thought it's stored somewhere different (for example a 2nd drive). It's not perfect since you will still see the folder there but it won't take any space.
>I wonder where could GAME saves be
>C:Users[username]AppdataLolcalLowSTUDIOGAME
>coworker female needs to look something in his computer
>tells me he needs to look in something name appdata
>literally go to execute and write %appdata% and folder opens
>"hey, how do you know that anon, you must be a cool hacker"
>mfw can't tell her that it's because this is where all the savegames of the H-Games i usually play are placed in
>mfw can't tell her that it's because this is where all the savegames of the H-Games i usually play are placed in
Minecraft settings are in Appdata so you can say that
>coworker female
>his
>
>coworker female
>he needs
abort mission to woo coworker anon, it's a trap
I dunno why Eroge devs love to put their save datas there.
because it's the correct place to put them
>I wonder where I should put my application's data
>hmm maybe in a standard location as per the operating system's best practices
>standards change every version of the OS
>every game now puts its data in a different place
>DefaultCompany
I shit you not, I have a coworker who refuses to direct game saves to the local folder because “that’s what unity devs do”
I don't know if it's possible to package the game as an MSIX?
This fricking shit
Every goddamn time
Tired of going to APPDATA to PROPERLY UNINSTALL MY GAMES. „Uninstall” means frick all these days.
I'm surprised neither Microsoft nor Steam standardized a savegame folder.
There is also zero application control, effectively every program you run has more control over the system than the user.
I hope these morons would do it but they don't care. Game storefronts and launchers should be forced to install into a single Games folder and all the config/save files should be in the folders of the games. You can easily create a uninstaller that deletes the game but leaves the config and saved files inside of the folders untouched. But they never will do that because they are lazy unorganized fricks, just look at the dogshit meme unreal engine shader compiling and 25 GB of VRAM needed for games that look as mediocre as 4GB VRAM 2016 games
What do you mean do you have to run all PC games using UAC? I don't know because I play on consoles. Because if not they are only user limited.
Steam did standardize a save folder, it's in your userdata.
Or rather, they tried, but barely anybody does it
MS tried like 20 years ago, devs complained
it really is fricking horrendous these moron coders just leave that shit wherever they had it in-house during development, they should just put it in the my games folder like sane people instead of cluttering the shit out of mydocs
>uninstall game
>it’s folders still remain
>random stray files in them
The power of PC Gaming.
No program or game is able to clean it's mess.
Yah I really hate that. Hgames don't fricking do that. Come on. Hell, I pirated Wasteland 3 recentely and it also put the saves and stuff in the drive I installed it too. So it's really just some devs that are incompetent.
Hmm, we could do:
>The Witcher I / 1
>The Witcher II / 2
>The Witcher III / 3
or....
KINO
>Being concerned with game data
What year is it, 2001? I stopped using memory cards ages ago, all this stuff takes care of itself
kek, just phone call to someone who reinstall OS for (you), right?
>turn on console
>put disc in
>It works
Computers are for working, like sorting files and typing things - which is exactly what you end up doing when you try to play games, while i'm already playing them
That's after skiping the account suggestion.
Which is a requirement on the PC.
lmao not these days
I still have a ps2/ps3/n64 that i use regularly and mostly play single player games to begin with, even on my modern consoles. Updates are fricking annoying, but usually once I install a game, thats as much as I ever have to do
>Updates are fricking annoying
Don't update.
If you told that to the people in here complaining about their PC moving shit around behind their backs, this thread wouldn't have happened
>but usually once I install a game, thats as much as I ever have to do
Which is the same as on PC.
PC Propaganda
Also PC Propaganda
>we both know that's not true anymore, you'll have to update you game and console.
Get a physical copy that isn't shovelware tier. that's literally 90% or more of the physical copies out there.
>Oh and let's not forget paying to play on the internet you already pay for.
False, you pay for using their servers.
>Get a physical copy that isn't shovelware tier. that's literally 90% or more of the physical copies out there.
Every single game is incomplete on launch and requires updates, plus firmware updates are mandatory.
>False, you pay for using their servers.
No, you don't, it's peer to peer connections.
Stop being a battered Black person.
>Every single game is incomplete on launch and requires updates, plus firmware updates are mandatory.
I have never had any issues. I never had to update or anything. Maybe you think because on the PC it is like that, that consoles are the same.
>No, you don't, it's peer to peer connections.
And how do you think these peer to peer systems find each other dickhead?
>I don't play videogames at all and am deeply tech illiterate
You know what, be a battered Black person, I don't care.
>>I don't play videogames at all and am deeply tech illiterate
>You know what, be a battered Black person, I don't care.
No it's because, you don't understand that a server is required for match making. a peer to peer system works very well locally because they can broadcast a message. you can't do that on the internet, you have to go through many IP's to find a person to connect to.
>turn on console
>put disc in
>It works
we both know that's not true anymore, you'll have to update you game and console.
Oh and let's not forget paying to play on the internet you already pay for.
>Turn on ps5
>Have to connect the pozzed controller where the mic is on by default, sending all voice communications to Sony servers
>Controller needs an update yet again, put it off for 24 hours
>Have to sign into PlayStation
>Firmware update required to do so
>Download and install firmware
>Alright, time to play
>Put disc inside PlayStation
>Installing the data off the disc, please wait 20 minutes
>Finally done, start the game
>downloading a software update, please wai
>It downloads and installs
>Start game
>30 page Eula IN ALL CAPS SO YOU KNOW IT'S SERIOUS enforcing no no-no words or you'll lose access to the game with no refunds, they also record and harvest your text and voice communications to sell to 3rd party AI trainer companies
>accept, start the game
>20 minutes long unskippable intro cutscene, mandatory tutorial levels
Modern gaming is such fricking trash
I forgot
>After agreeing to the Eula you get thrown to the store page and shown all the daily store deals where you can save 10% and get an exp bonus for an hour if you buy the $150 dollar game currency package
There is 4 post arguing this. I always wonder, why? Why try to convince, to advocate to an unwilling recipetent, about PCgaming? I've game on console and PC and prefer PC, but I won't say why to someone whose clearly biased against the PC. They're not going to care, you create a PC with a 4060 and give it to them with all game in existence and they will still go back to console
I'm not implying this doesn't happen in reverse. I'm saying that if someone is hostile, they're looking for a contest of ideas, with no referee or way to win or lose. So what's the point?
Same reason he posted it in the first place.
I think this guy must be gatekeeping so hard that he salts the earth. He can't be real.
PS1 gen was nice. PS2 gen was nice. Past that, "backwards" stopped existing and I started having more flexibility in PC gaming, for the pricetag.
Yeah, surprises like wii modding did happen, which were nice, but there's little to no adventure still. You pop game in, you have fun in it. Pre social media you could tell friends and family and that was your world of metainteraction.
Honestly, there might be a bit of a potential for metagaming by having a console and opening social media on a phone but, I had less than that going into gaming. Gaming mags still exist, bookstores less so, bla bla bla metagame.
TLDR: Consoles can't into customization; no adventure involved aside from the game. Metagame is better on PC.
Games are notoriously poor code, they should be sandboxed at all times.
Ironically running console games via emulator is generally cleaner to native ports due to the emulator creating an environment the foreign code requires
>delete wineprefix
>everything is clean
>pirate all my games
>all saves to to Public/Documents/Steam
nothing personal devs.
it's like a random sample of what i do but not a good sample
This, it's not called "My Documents" because the documents belong to you, it's called that because the documents are ABOUT you.
What kind of moron uses the documents folder anyway
It would be possible to make a tool/mod that fixes this. Usage would be something like this.
(1) Find the folder containing the game's main EXE. To that folder, copy myfix.exe and create myfix.ini:
[Settings]
GameExe=TheWitcher.exe
SavesDir=F:/MyShit/witcher1
(2) Start the game by running myfix.exe instead of TheWitcher.exe.
(3) Whenever the game tries to write to:
C:/Users/Anon/Documents/The Witcher/save1.dat
it instead writes to:
F:/MyShit/witcher1/Users/Anon/Documents/The Witcher/save1.dat
I could make the myfix.exe I describe, but I'm not sure how many people care about this, or whether faffing around with ini files would actually be an improvement over just putting up with a cluttered documents folder. (Or how many people would be willing to run a file called "myfix.exe" posted on Ganker.)
Except this way you'd have to change how the games behave when it saves and when it loads, which is not a one solution fits all. You could on the other hand make a hidden symlink for all the folders you don't want to show in Documents, but is tedious and would have to be after having the game save at least once. Though, it could be somewhat made automatic by using the same process ludusavi uses when backing up saves
I'd need to patch all functions that take a path (CreateFile etc) and apply identical logic for all of them.
With that done, the plan would be to use some simple heuristic to determine whether a path looks like a settings/save location, i.e. if it's in <system drive>:/Users. Those reads and writes get changed to a different path, others go through as-is.
I'm sure there would be some edge cases to handle but it feels completely doable.
Patching the system call table isn't a bright way to go about fixing this.
>Local
>Locallow
>Roaming
wat
>Move and redirect "Documents" folder from C:users<username> to D:Profile so it easily survives OS reinstalls and get bloat off the C: drive
>Some games have the path hardcoded to C:users, still save their shit on C:users<username>Documents and don't use the "personal" shell folder variable, despite the folder no longer being located there
Looking at you MGR:Revengance
take you autism, OCD and ADHD medication you fricking manchild
oh no my documents folder is full of folders im going fricking insane aaahhhh
You live in filth
>decide to try Gamepass
>it installs two copies of the game, one in the WindowsApps folder and another in the selected drive
why can't dev just use a dedicated saves folder? it's been there since win7. are they moronic?
Yes.
I love it
Too easy
shut up antisemite
No problem, just have a separate 2 TB drive where you keep all of your old saved games which you back up (5 hours) every month 🙂
you could technically move all the folders into the my games folder and replace the originals with symbolic links to where you moved them, and then mark them as hidden, but that might not work for games, and is moronic because you can also just mark those folders as hidden if you really can't stand the clutter.
anything i don't need to access regularly especially empty folders i just mark as hidden
>DocumentsDead Space 2
>DocumentsDead Space2
SOVL
Also another one in AppData/Roaming/EA
Pic related
Fricking why
It's been there since vista. Blame lazy devs
>Insert game into DVD drive
>Drive E: "My Disc 03/09/2007"
Someone at the studio got lazy
>moved default screenshots folder to a separate hard drive
>unplugged hard drive and moved it to another computer
>screenshotting no longer works on first computer due to windows not knowing a folder to put the file
>have to download a sketchy .bat file that restores the default location
not sure if its witcher 1 or 3, but holy shit each save is like 50mb and in one play through your save folder can reach 200gb
why the frick cant games just save in their own folders?
Get GameSave Manager, you're welcome
This thread is genuine autism. Women care about neat file structure beyond what's necessary
>tfw every fricking dev makes folders all over the pc
Can't they just...make it in one place
No because you’ll edit the save data!! Aaaaahhhhh!!!!!
Remember when gearbox tried to sell gold key microtransactions and people found out you could just edit a notepad file and give yourself infinite gold keys? Good times
Le epic sanity check!!!
Haha, let me give you some gold, fellow epic moments loving brother 😀
fricking homosexual frick off
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hate it when they put saves into some %user%/appdata/localrow/drivers/system32/etc/companyname/gamename/data/ folders instead of the game folder
>Random log files from installers got stored in My Documents or worse, the desktop
>When you delete them they just come back the next reboot
I'm not a programmer. Why can't every program be portable? It would perform worse or what?
People actually use the default document folder? I mostly keep everything not the OS off the OS drive.
>want to mod a game
>look up the mod folder
>it's in the fricking roaming folder
Frick you you fricking Black folk. Stop doing this shit. I put the game on another drive for a reason. There'a also the games that automatically install in some moronic folder.
I miss the Vista games explorer
>level editor saves in Saved Games
>exports to My Documents
>game config data stored in hidden folder
>savegame state written to registry
state written to registry
Good Shit.
I unironically miss when all the files were in the actual installation folder instead of deep in the user folders of the OS.
Why the frick? Who asked for this change?
You have the game in installed in one folder. You have all of its related files in said folder.
Why would you ever split it up?
because
>programs/vidya go in privileged directory so only admin can install/remove them
>user data goes in user's directory to keep it safe from other users
It's not rocket science homosexual.
go in privileged directory so only admin can install/remove them
Is that a feature?
Yes you babby moron.
>>user data goes in user's directory to keep it safe from other users
Who fricking cares?
ZOOMERS CANT INTO FOLDERS
i prefer my save games going to the documents folder.
1) you will always know where they are, vs some frickoff obscure directory buried under some appdata folder of the company who made the game's name that you don't know
2) i can just cloud sync one folder and all my game saves are backed up
3) you will never be a real woman
100% FRICK THIS SHIT
I got embarrassed in a Zoom presentation last year when I was trying to find a PPT in my documents folder and these games I don't want to show made save folders
>doing professional work on your home PC
Had it coming.
why do they even do this? Just keep all that shit in the root folder for the game.