Operation Anchorage FIX for users with seperate System and Games Drive

[NoisyFox]

I have come up witha way to fix this problem for people with files on drives other than the system drive which also allows the GFWL system to work properly. This involves tricking the operating system / GFWL. Because the game loks for the DLC files on the same drive as it is installed on but GFWL insists on placing them on the C:\ drive, we need to do some sleight-of-hand using junction points.

 

 

Here is how - note that this method requires you to download some software and involves tinkering with the operating system.

 

 

1 . Firstly, on the drive on which the game is actually installed, create an empty folder called "Documents and Settings" - this will be the folder we use to trick windows. For example if your games drive is G:\ create "G:\Documents and Settings" as an empty folder.

 

 

2 . Download Junction Link Magic from http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm

 

 

3. Run Junction Link Magic. It will scan your system for a minute or two for existing junction points.

 

 

4. Once the scan has finished, click the "Create" button. Select your new empty "Documents and Settings" folder on your game drive as the host and "C:\Documents and Settings" as the destination.

 

 

5. Confirm by clicking "Create" and then exit Junction Link Magic

 

 

This makes your "G:\Documents and Settings" folder a transparent link to "C:\Documents and Settings" ; that is, it appears to be on the G:\ drive but is in fact on the C:\ drive and all changes made to it affect the actual files on C:\

 

 

Next time you run Fallout 3 the DLC will work as planned and you can even get your achievements etc.

 

 

Computer Scienced! Take that Microsoft!

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Stephen

 

 

P.S. Message me if you need help or anything :-) feel free to add my gamertag (PodRED) also

 

P.P.S. Could someone sticky / pin this?