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Reply to PLEASE stop putting game files (mods, saves, etc.) in windows profile in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Now I know you two don't know me, and neither does anyone else, but it wouldn't be all that difficult to go into some of that development software I run and sift through binary/hex/machine code/whatever you want to call it to figure out where the references to the current mods folder are and change them. However, that's unethical, potentially illegal, would violate the EULA, and could harm my ability to get updates so I'm not going to do it and I have never done that in the past for those

Reply to PLEASE stop putting game files (mods, saves, etc.) in windows profile in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I agree with everything you said except for the part about putting the files in the My Documents/Games folder. For people like myself that doesn't fix the problem because My Documents/Games cannot be moved off the C Windows drive.[/quote] Technically, this is not correct. As discussed, there are means to do this built into windows. They're not easy to find nor perform, and can be dangerous, but they are there. For most people, installing everything on one great big part

Reply to PLEASE stop putting game files (mods, saves, etc.) in windows profile in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Believe me, I do all this and have since the Windows 95 days. My drives typically: C: Windows system drive. Very little else lives here other then things like Java and stuff. 15-20 gigs plenty for XP D: Page file partition, usually 2 gigs. Nothing else goes here but the page file so that it's not fragmented E: Programs partition. Any non game programs get installed here G: Games partition. Biggest of them all F: My Documents/Data partition. I point "My Documen

Reply to PLEASE stop putting game files (mods, saves, etc.) in windows profile in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'm with you guys, and I have a solution I use to work around this dilemma. There's details on the web, but the short story is that you can change the default profile folder from "System Root\Documents and Settings" (For XP, or "System Root\Users" for Vista) to the drive and folder of your choice. This is a complicated and technical thing to do, so I'll warn that it could have consequences and take some time, but if you're going to customize your windows installation on this level, you might as