changing location of save files

[daedalus]

Is there anyway to change the location of the save files?

My idea is the following: I want to be able to have CK to save / autosave to a directory sitting in a RAMDISK drive (ie. directly into memory). Sadly, windows does not allow direct linking of directories. Creating a shortcut does not work, since CK does not recognize it as a real directory.


Any suggestions



Edit: this is in the wrong forum. Can someone please move it to the General discussion forum?

 

[richvh]

I'm pretty sure the only way would be patching the executable file, probably with a hex editor, changing the path to "scenarios\save games" to whatever the path to your ramdisk is.

 

[daedalus]

I'm pretty sure the only way would be patching the executable file, probably with a hex editor, changing the path to "scenarios\save games" to whatever the path to your ramdisk is.

I am pretty sure you are right. Very likely the are relative to the .exe file location. However, I would like to know I am wrong, and that it can be changed in some way. Having the savefiles in the RAMDISK speeds up saving/loading of files by a good margin, that it makes it worth it to try to change it

 

[jdrou]

How is the RAMDisk created? In Win2k (and probably XP) you can mount drives as folders so you could probably mount it as your save games folder. If you're using Microsoft's real-mode driver (ramdrive.sys) under 98/ME you can't do this.