Changing saved game folder

[tiggerdyret]

Hi.

I want to change my save game folder, so that I no longer save to my documents, so I don't need to save on my ssd drive. I tried to edit a new path in FALLOUT.ini like this SLocalSavePath=Saves\E:Falloutsaves, but it didn't work.

[JerethKhan]

You need to do the old style back out of the folder structure. You are on the right track, but you need to back out of my documents first. Here's how.

If you are using the default path with Windows (usually C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\My Games\Fallout3) you use the this format

 

SLocalSavePath=../

This will put you in the Fallout3 folder.

 

SLocalSavePath=../../

This will put you in the My Games folder.

 

So if you want to go to Root (C:/) from there you'd use

SLocalSavePath=../../../../../../

So you use one ../ per directory

 

Then add your pathing

SLocalSavePath=../../../../../../Fallout/Saves

This will make a folder called Fallout and a folder in it called Saves and read/write to here.

 

I'm pretty sure you only need to change this in the My Documents fallout.ini but it doesn't hurt anything to change it in FalloutPrefs.ini as well.

Hope this helps.

[GENHEN2]

So what if I have a folder on another disk (not in C:\ ) that I want to store the save in?
Like if I have a drive D:\Saves that I want to store everything in, I can't seem to change the directory to get into that folder instead