[Scummvm-devel] Windows experience

Johannes Schickel lordhoto at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 01:40:33 CET 2011


On 12/23/2011 01:31 AM, J. King wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:35:56 -0500, Willem Jan Palenstijn
> <wjp at usecode.org>  wrote:
>
>>> There is no standard location for saved games, that covers all the
>>> various Windows versions. A standard location ( %USERPROFILE%\Saved
>>> games ) for saved games is only available in Windows Vista/7. APPDATA is
>>> only mean for configuration/preference files, while My Documents is only
>>> meant for user created files.
>> There are hundreds of modern Windows games around. Surely there's
>> something
>> resembling a consensus about where savegames go?
> You'd be surprised.  Just about the only thing modern games -do- agree on
> is that %programfiles%\<AppDir>  is not the right place, but that's hardly
> surprising.  However, I should point out that Windows 7 (and possibly
> Windows Vista, but I no longer have an installed system to check) does
> have a very explicit, built-in and specially-styled "%USERPROFILE%\Saved
> Games" folder, which Windows' built-in games use, but which only two other
> games I've installed on this machine use.
>
> Everything else uses either "%documents%\<AppName>" or
> "%documents%\<Vendor>\<AppName>" [1], "%documents%\My Games\<AppName>" [2]
> or more rarely "%AppData%\<Vendor>\<AppName>" [3].
>
> Personally I'd very much like to see ScummVM use "%USERPROFILE%\Saved
> Games" (I have my home-made launcher use this when it exists) or failing
> that "%documents%\My Games\<AppName>".  Anything else is just obscure
> and/or messy.
>
> [1] for big vendors like BioWare, EA, etc
> [2] mostly XP-era games, but also newer titles like Fallout: New Vegas;
> this was a built-in folder in Windows XP, if memory serves, but wasn't
> used much until much later
> [3] e.g. the Drawn series and some adventure games like those from
> FrogWares, none of which I seem to have installed on this machine
>
>


I'm not a Windows port user myself, but I think "%documents%\ScummVM" 
seems like a good place for the config file, the log file and the 
default savegame location for modern Windows (i.e. Vista/7) systems at 
least. Of course one might want to have some directory structure in 
there, like a special subfolder for saves, so it's not so easy to miss 
the config file in a lot of saves or the like ;-).

// Johannes




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