What's the point?

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by lencombs

I don't like data on my C: drive other than my operating system, as I usually end up reformatting C: and re-installing the OS a couple times a year.

Yep. That's why I keep my files in custom-named folders on the other drives. And why I changed the default location of the My Documents folder to a different drive... just for OOTP.

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by battists

Ranger,

Don't worry about all of the crabby people. Trust me, the beta team discussed this with Markus & crew ad-infinitum, but to get Vista compatibility, it was a requirement.

Just try the steps I posted a few posts up, and let us know how it works, please!

Sorry, can't see this being a real reason.
If the installer was correctly written is should realise what operating system it is being installed upon and act accordingly.
Nowhere in it's install did it let you know it was dumping the vast majority of data onto the 'C' drive when it was DELIBTATELY instructed not to and to install to an alternate drive.

Now the odd bit on C drive has been the norm for a while e.g. the odd small save game file but the amount that was dumped there can't be overlooked.

Will this be addressed?

[KySteveH]

Originally Posted by ChrisH

Sorry, can't see this being a real reason.
If the installer was correctly written is should realise what operating system it is being installed upon and act accordingly.
Nowhere in it's install did it let you know it was dumping the vast majority of data onto the 'C' drive when it was DELIBTATELY instructed not to and to install to an alternate drive.

Now the odd bit on C drive has been the norm for a while e.g. the odd small save game file but the amount that was dumped there can't be overlooked.

Will this be addressed?

Let me try to explain this, for those of you who are bitching about something you have that you have complete control over.

OOTP, like many other applications written for Windows, points its data files to the "my documents folder". That's not a specific folder, like c:\porn, or d:\warez. It's a pointer to wherever you have chosen to put your "my documents" folder. Normally, it's located on the system drive, but if you have some objection to that, you can tell Windows to point "my documents" to g:\docs, an as example.

I guess what I don't understand is, if you are freaking out about this, where do you store data files? Do you have a panic attack every time you save a document, too?

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by KySteveH

Let me try to explain this, for those of you who are bitching about something you have that you have complete control over.

OOTP, like many other applications written for Windows, points its data files to the "my documents folder". That's not a specific folder, like c:\porn, or d:\warez. It's a pointer to wherever you have chosen to put your "my documents" folder. Normally, it's located on the system drive, but if you have some objection to that, you can tell Windows to point "my documents" to g:\docs, an as example.

I guess what I don't understand is, if you are freaking out about this, where do you store data files? Do you have a panic attack every time you save a document, too?

My drives are very specifcally laid out as to what roll each has.
I know exactly where I save anything, and so where to find it again I do not have game data writting to my main OS drive fullstop that's why I have multiple drives one is dedicated to games.

Why should a program write to a location that I don't want it too? answer lazy coding in the first place, if the installation actually bothered to inform you of this situation then ok but it doesn't. It also ignores you to tell it to install to a different drive, a simple way would be a warning box, 'default location is..... want to change this?' very easy, but no it's not done this way.

Oh and if you alter the path in the 'game preference' the interface is so poor that the path is totally unreadable, the font colour is totally wrong for the default skin making it even harder to figure out what is happening.

Yet again this game seems to have ignored simple 'system level' testing that makes the program run correctly.
Unfortunately since I test systems for a living it's so obvious when things don't work right they jump out at you. They need testers to perform this in the beta stage, but it never seems to be done.

As it is it's sort of cludge aroundable but would have been curtious for the install program to inform the user what it was doing.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by ChrisH

If the installer was correctly written is should realise what operating system it is being installed upon and act accordingly.

Trust me, I was beating that drum during beta. The installer is still as you see it now, so I've just made my peace with it by moving the default location of the My Documents folder. All things considered, it was the easiest path to follow.