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Feature request: change Windows save path

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 1:08 am
by adventuringsucks
Currently, when playing 1.7.2 on Windows (downloaded from website), TOME4 saves games, screenshots, etc to C:/users/username/T-Engine/4.0/tome/screenshots/.

This is a bad choice for Windows. This directory is not easily accessible to users using File Explorer, since only Desktop, Documents, Downloads are visible by default. Despite being located in C:/users/username, clicking on one of them like Downloads, gives you no way to navigate "up" (to C:/users/username), because Explorer treats them differently, and going up takes you to the root of the system. The user literally has find this by navigating from the root of the C drive, like some caveman :)

So what should the new path be? There's no clear answer, but the best place is in Documents.

About 80% of games I play, use Documents/Gamename (or Documents/companyname/gamename). So the path would be "%USERPROFILE%/Documents/TOME4".

Microsoft officially recommends using %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games. I'd say maybe 1% of games do this. I don't recommend it, because it's also inaccessible from Explorer, like TOME4's current path.

About 10% put them in AppData/Local. I don't recommend this, same reason as above.

And finally another 10% save to a folder in the game's installation directory. Usually indie games like TOME which have no installer, just extract and play.

Re: Feature request: change Windows save path

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 2:48 am
by HousePet
You can change the location of those files via the Launcher options.

Re: Feature request: change Windows save path

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 3:54 pm
by adventuringsucks
Good to know, but my point stands, the default should be changed.

Re: Feature request: change Windows save path

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:57 am
by mckwack
HousePet wrote: Thu Dec 24, 2020 2:48 am You can change the location of those files via the Launcher options.
This "Launcher options" only works for the game version downloaded directly from ToME website but NOT the one from Steam..

Steam version still goes to the default save path under C:/user/username/<etc>, even though I have changed the save path using the launcher from the directly downloaded one.. :(

Re: Feature request: change Windows save path

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:57 pm
by HousePet
That should be changeable with command line arguments on the Steam version. Unsure if it permanently moves it though.