Can the game-save path be changed to another drive?

[Olham 164]

Sometimes, after installing a new program or after an update, I find I'm getting problems, which make me

want to get back to the state I had before. For this reason I use ACRONIS BackUp - I just write the whole

back up of my C: partition back and I'm fine. But then, OFF won't be able to save any pilot records no more.

 

I'm pretty sure my OFF savegames are saved in: AppData > Roaming > Microsoft > CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields

My OS is Vista.

It is totally annoying to have to reinstall "OFF" and everything included after making a recovery with my backup program,

because my savegames don't work anymore.

Is it possible to change the savegame path of "OFF" to another drive to avoid this?

If so, could anyone explain how to do this.

I would be totally gratefull.

[+Polovski 460]

But were did you install OFF to? If it was also on C: and you backed it up as an image of C: then I can't see why that wouldn't work unless acronis skipped some files or didn't backup the registry??

 

If the latter, then of course you'd normally need to reinstall to get those settings back.

[von Baur 54]

I may not be following you exactly here but I think what you're asking about is the campaign pilots. If that's the case, you can certainly make a copy before you reset your hard drive. The folder isn't that big and would easily fit on a flash drive and likely on a floppy disc, assuming your computer has a floppy drive. If you reinstall the game completely I believe that you'd have to recreate all pilots, and probably in order, then replace the folder. Otherwise simply replacing should work. Bear in mind that I'm till running XP. "If it ain't broke..."

 

Another option is to have the game on a seperate drive. I had an old 80GB EIDE hd sitting around which, with the help of a very inexpensive adapter, I installed for the sole purpose of housing OFF. At 23G out of a useable 74.5 it's less than 1/3 full and I can reformat my boot drive if I need to without adversely affecting the game.

[Olham 164]

Pol, I never have my games and sims on C:, I always use the D: or the E: partition.

That was said somewhere to be a little faster that way - not sure, if it is necessary.

Should I put OFF on C ?

 

Von Baur, it didn't help me to have the sim on another drive, cause the campaign savegames are on C:

But yes, of course one can save those folders of CFS3 and OFF, before overwriting the C: partition.

[+Polovski 460]

No you can install any drive you like Olham, but it always saves pilot names etc data to the game's folder, and also saves info into the CFS3 data files

(to the path you gave above). These would need to match up of course. If you have 30 pilots in the off folder but the old data you restored to C: only knows of 7 then that would be likely problem.

 

If you install OFF to a different drive then the pilots data saved into the OFF game folders will not match the CFS3 data stored on C: anymore (which is older restored data)

 

So you need to backup all the data in ...AppData > Roaming > Microsoft > CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields.. I'd say and also restore that after the older C: restore.

 

if you installed OFF to C: too then at least the data in OFF and Appdata would match although newer pilots would have been lost of course if you did not backup everyday.

 

If it's important to you then I suggest you do a DAILY backup all your cfs3 data files both in Appdata.. and in OFF campaigndata folder and zip them up somewhere every day?

[Olham 164]

Okay, thanks - so I suppose, the folders now on C: can not be placed on another drive and linked to the sim.