Ability to Change Save Game Location

[dwardzala]

Can the Save Game directories be located on a different drive? I did not see a way to set a Save Game file location.

I actually have the game, through Steam loaded on D: drive but the save game files are in Documents on C: drive - this makes no sense.

Note: manually moving the save game directory does not work. The game does not find the save game that way.

If this feature does not exist, PLEASE include it. With the size of the save games growing all the time, it is important that the user have the flexibility to locate them wherever they want.

Thanks.

[dwardzala]

Answering my own question so someone else won't have to look as hard.

So after diving into the depths of the manual, I found this under tools and utilities:

Command Line Options:
path_user_data="cath"
OOTP will use the cath (replace cath with the actual path on your system) as "user data path", i.e. the path which contains the saved_games folder.

I confirmed this works with Steam by adding this line to the Launch Options under the game properties.

I am glad the feature is available but it seems pretty fundamental to be buried as deep as it is.

[glenmere14]

I thought it was the answer to an issue I've been having but I don't think I'm implementing correctly for my STEAM installation.

I plugged in the path to the saved_games folder as below:

path_user_data=C:\Users\bill\AAA OOTP\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 22

But I always get this error message:

APP_FRAMEWORK::startup - unable to open the path_user_data folder C:\Users\bill\AAA

Any direction would be appreciated - thanks.

[glenmere14]

Bump

[Matt Arnold]

FYI you should be able to use path_saved_games if you want to change only the saved game path.
On the command line, if the path contains a space you will have to surround it in quotes. So path_user_data="C:\Users\bill\AAA OOTP\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 22"

Easier though than editing the command line, if in your config folder, you have a paths.cfg file, that can be used to customize paths. You can find that by opening the settings popup, on the troubleshooting tab there should be a button "Open folder containing file 'paths.cfg'"

If you open that up, in the paths.cfg file, you can specify some paths (http://manuals.ootpdevelopments.com/...guration_files), and the game will use those. In that case, if you write them on their own lines, then it's a little easier in parsing.

[glenmere14]

Thanks Matt - much appreciated!