Default Saved Games Folder

[LordShiva]

Is there any way to get Civ4/Warlords to use a saved games folder other than "My Documents\My Saved Games?" I find this particular folder path highly annoying, for some reason, especially now that I'm running Vista which alters the traditional user directory structure.

[LordShiva]

Anyone? It's really rather annoying to have this ugly folder mucking up my glorious organisation structure

[Dis]

vista is out?

[LordShiva]

Yup (for businesses), and the pre-release versions have been out for a while.

[Dracolisk]

Other then that directory is Civ4 running fine on Vista? I'm about to take the plunge

[Petek]

Re: Default Saved Games Folder

Originally posted by LordShiva
Is there any way to get Civ4/Warlords to use a saved games folder other than "My Documents\My Saved Games?" I find this particular folder path highly annoying, for some reason, especially now that I'm running Vista which alters the traditional user directory structure.

See here for some suggestions on how to change the save path.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Dracolisk
Other then that directory is Civ4 running fine on Vista? I'm about to take the plunge

Yup. I had some flickering when using nVidia's drivers off their website, but I've since updated to more recent drivers from www.guru3d.com and everything is now fine.

[LordShiva]

Re: Re: Default Saved Games Folder

Originally posted by Petek
Here's how to change the location of your save files (and everything else in the Civ 4 portion of the My Documents folder):

Find the Civ4 shortcut (for example, on your desktop). Right-Click on it, and choose "properties". On the form that appears, click on the 'shortcut' tab, and find the box that says 'Target'.

Click in the box, and add the following to the end of it:

/ALTROOT=pathtosaves

For example, to get it to put the saves in the C:\Games\Civ4_Saves directory, change it to:

/ALTROOT=C:\games\Civ4_saves

Note: If you want the saves stored in the base Civ4 directory, change it to:
/ALTROOT=.

If you want to set it to a path that contains spaces, you need to enclose the path using quotation marks:
/ALTROOT="C:\Data\Civ 4 Saves"

(Courtesy of the Civ Fanatics Civ4 Unofficial Tech Support FAQ at http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=135019)

Thanks, petek! Exactly what I was looking for.

I say "was" because I went and installed Company of Heroes, and it uses the My Games folder too . So, now I need to figure out how to change its default save folder .

[Lord Avalon]

Thanks, Petek.

Although it puts Saves\(subfolders) in whatever folder you use in the path, so since I first tried /ALTROOT="...Warlords\Saves", I ended up with ...Warlords\Saves\Saves. I took the "Saves" out of the ALTROOT path and got what I wanted.

Lost my profile settings, had to redo that. No biggie, though.