Where should games put their save files?
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Where should games put their save files?
Where should games put their save files?
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Neutral evil is installing directly to desktop motherfricker that's what I do
appdata/[developer_name]/[development_code_name]
I have never seen a game using Lawful Good
I have. Cyberpunk, E:D, TEW1&2 and Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 all used it.
because you're a summerhomosexual. much more common 2 decades ago in the xp era
Here you go
Diablo 2: LoD after 2010 ish.
Arkane's games do
I have exactly a single save file located in that folder lmao
Forgot the image fugg, it's Disgaea 4
Saved games folder ≠ DocumentsSaved games folder
Well frick me, I assumed entering it into explorer would get me there, turns out I could only find it through Win+R
At least it's a bit more populated
>Saved Games
>Within Documents
Chaotic.
Spread across multiple places. I played a game once that put part of the save data in the game directory, part of the save data in the appdata roaming directory and part of the save data in the appdata local directory. That's how you do it.
In the game folder as practially all games did until Microsoft told people not to do it when they releaed Vista.
Frick Microsoft and frick Windows Vista!
>I don't know how multi-user works
>Mulit-user
Black person, this is my PC. No other fricker is touching it.
>this is my PC
Unless you're still on 7, it's not yours anymore.
go back to Ganker schizo
Is there a reason saves are almost never in the same folder as the game files? It's always in an entirely different area.
Yes.
to be as annoying as possible
File write permissions
Multi user Environment. Do you want your brother saving over your GTA SA save?
maybe the game should implement a way to manage that, wow
>Let's waste time adding a user function within the game on top of the user function that already exists on the system
Tell me you are playing a console port without tell me you are playing a console port.
well gta sa already has save slots so who's the real moron?
I'm not that anon who mentioned GTA, and I wasn't even alluding to it. So I guess you are.
Yes, because it's a super bad idea.
If a game is installed in a place that requires administrator privileges, you'll need an admin account to actually allow that to happen. Also, mixing saves with install data makes it harder to backup what you actually need.
Well if a game on Steam does it you'll lose your fricking saves by uninstalling. And that's the story of me never playing Gunfire Reborn again.
Steam cloud saving is supposed to fix that problem by backing up saves after you exit the game.
In the first place SteamAPI is supposed to fix the whole save file problem because it has an API for creating and managing save files but since developers aren't required to use any of the API you rarely ever see it.
both kotor games do this and when i tried to uninstall a mod it wiped the entire folder including saves
Wrong, uninstalling a game on Steam only deletes the files installed by the game.
Strangle every game that uses the registry for its saves
Name one game.
[Game folder]/Savedata
How do you put a save file in your registry? What's so chaotic evil about it?
Never goes away
Slows down Windows
>people still fall for the "registry cleaner" meme in 2022
isn't it past your bedtime, grandpa?
Anything other than the game's respective installation folder is evil
Top tier
>My Games
High tier
>Local
>Roaming
Mid tier
>Program Files
>My Documents
Low tier
>Saved Games
>LocalLow
>Users
Please stop tier
>regedit.exe
>High tier
>Hidden folders
No
>ever NOT having "show hidden files, folders, and drives" turned on
lmao
>High tier
FRICK OUTTA HERE STOP PUTTING SHIT ON MY BOOT DRIVE REEEEEEEEE
Topper top tier:
>Ask user during install/first config
>Game needs config to know where more config is
>Program Files
no game does this, you'd have to run it with admin privileges for no good reason
Anon...
He's referring to old shit. By default a user only has read access to program files. Programs these days will modify the access privileges for their own shit so users can use them but for old games they didn't have to do that so their installers don't bother and the end result is read access but no write access. For an old game that wants to be able to write to its own folder you either have to run as admin or manually modify the permissions.
>He's referring to old shit
See, that's the thing. Many old games ask for administrator permissions to launch. It may not be required to actually launch, but most would just accept and let the game write wherever it wants.
>Game content goes in /usr/share or /opt
>Saves and configurations go in ~/.game or ~/.local/share/game
>Game binary goes in /usr/share/bin
Windows is mind boggling. Finding a save game is
>Google
>If its not in first three results search for the company name or the game name through the whole filesystem and pray
>Might not be where google says it is anyway because dir convention shorthands change from version to version in windows
Let's not pretend all Linux devs adhere to the conventions. They have the same problem Windows does. OS devs say X goes in Y, W goes in Z, etc. but devs can just stick shit wherever they feel like and there's not a lot the OS devs can do about that.
We don't talk about freedesktop
the xdg standard is the only standard for where shit should go we have. It's one of the few good things to come out of freedesktop.
*FHS and XDG
Regardless freedesktop is still moronic and even XDG has some problems. Especially thumbnails. Did you know they actually cite the wrong RFC# for url encoding of thumbnails and if you comply with the spec, nothing will find them?
>that symbol
nice try op.
i hate that i know what this is referring to. i look at shitposts on Ganker and the party too much
>right next to the little white piece
Woah
Goddammit, anon. Take a break from Ganker.
what do you mean
Meds
Great post
Game's folder is the only acceptable way. I don't want shit scattered all over my computer.
im putting them in fricking C:/GAME and there is nothing you homosexuals can do about it
Like The Sims? Installed Sims 1 for nostalgia the other day and after fricking around for a bit wanted to start a new game. But I couldn't figure out how to do it. The game just automatically loaded my save when I started it and there doesn't seem to be a way to start a new game. After googling for a bit I discovered there are no saves. You directly modify the game's data files. If you want to start fresh again you have to uninstall the game and then reinstall it again.
OP missed the actual chaotic evil.
$XDG_DATA_HOME
Ywnbaw
~/.local/share/game
In their fricking folder.
If I install you on the D drive, it means STAY FRICKING THERE I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE SPACE ON C
Can't think of any games saving in regedit.exe.
Only games I've ever come across that did that were Jap games. More specifically, VNs that would use the registry to track unlocked CGs.
yeah all the ones I can think of that do it are porn games and it always pisses me off
>~/.[GAME]
>~/.local/[GAME]
>~/.local/share/[GAME]
us linuxbros struggle with the same issue...
on the cloud
>no keeping the saves in the game folder
The only lawful good in my books
It's in true neutral.
>installing game into program files instead of being a neat unpackable exe
i have no idea where any of my saves are located an i have never bothered to check
My documents. APPDATA a shit.
Does Windows 11 have AppData bullshit?
That's how they'd get me to upgrade day 1 to an OS.
My Documents is complete unmanagable
I have a "Personal" folder instead which actually contains my documents.
Where I FRICKING TOLD THEM TO PUT THEM GOD DAMNIT.
%programfiles%steamuserdataSteam UserIDGame AppID
Just inside the fricking game folder, I don't need it when I uninstall it