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Personal folder used for saves/replays/mods/maps

Postby maxpower » 08 Mar 2012, 11:27

Hi,

I'm on a french installation of SCFA so every save/replay/etc used with vanilla SCFA goes to this personal folder :
%My Documents Directory%\Mes Parties\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance
With FAF, it uses an "english" one :
%My Documents Directory%\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance

In both vanilla SCFA or FAF-patched-SCFA, in the Replay menu, I can only see the replays in my former directory "...\Mes Parties\...". So it's not quite convenient, as I have to move my FAF replays into this french folder before being able to see/watch them.

The best for me would be to remove the "Mes Parties" and use only "My Games" (as I have other games that SCFA in "My Games", whereas vanilla SCFA alone in "Mes Parties").
I search registry and Game.prefs, but no configuration parameter found for this.
How can I solve that ?

By the way, great job with FAF. ;)

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Re: Personal folder used for saves/replays/mods/maps

Postby Ze_PilOt » 08 Mar 2012, 11:31

Yeps we are saving the replays in "My Games" no matter what.

We are investigating the best way to handle replays right now. I think it will be more easier to determine once the replay vault is in place.

I don't think that you can change where FA is looking for replays. It use your user folder no matter what.
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Re: Personal folder used for saves/replays/mods/maps

Postby thygrrr » 08 Mar 2012, 11:34

I'm actually considering to make that customizable in the lobby, with the new default (FAF replays are incompatible with GPGnet replays) being %COMMON_APPDATA%\replays

The "Mes Parties" vs "My Games" issue is a crappy code problem that GPG introduced by not properly supporting the REAL "My Games" functionality of Vista, which would have localized folder names (e.g. "Mes Parties" or "Meine Spiele").
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Re: Personal folder used for saves/replays/mods/maps

Postby Raging_Squirrel » 08 Mar 2012, 19:30

This problem is easily solvable.

To use "My Games", open your FA's game.prefs
ctrl+f there, find "lang" (or "language") and change it to EN
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Re: Personal folder used for saves/replays/mods/maps

Postby maxpower » 08 Mar 2012, 22:51

Language = 'EN' made it !
Thanks for the tip ! :)
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