Posted November 21, 2014
Where do GOG games like to put the saved games folder? For example, Fallout 2.
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cyberchief.979
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Registered: Apr 2011
From Serbia
Starmaker
go Clarice!
Registered: Sep 2010
From Russian Federation
Posted November 21, 2014
Depends on the game, the OS, and the install location. Fallout 2's saves should be in the installation directory (data/savegame), unless installed to Program Files, in which case good luck sifting through AppData.
rtcvb32
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Registered: Aug 2013
From United States
Posted November 21, 2014
There's a thread regarding this very issue. There tends to be like 6 common locations for savegames.
Game directory (or with a /save/ sub-directory, Diablo 2 and Tyrian do this)
User\AppData (Probably roaming)
User\Some-Other-Name (Te4 does this)
My Documents\Saved Games\Game
My Documents\SavedGames\Game
My Documents\Some-Other-Name (zombie shooter series)
If you're using Windows and you've saved recently, you can probably do a search based on time for the AppData directory for the last day, or better yet, the last hour. These will pull up some garbage, but you're bound to find it.
Game directory (or with a /save/ sub-directory, Diablo 2 and Tyrian do this)
User\AppData (Probably roaming)
User\Some-Other-Name (Te4 does this)
My Documents\Saved Games\Game
My Documents\SavedGames\Game
My Documents\Some-Other-Name (zombie shooter series)
If you're using Windows and you've saved recently, you can probably do a search based on time for the AppData directory for the last day, or better yet, the last hour. These will pull up some garbage, but you're bound to find it.
Charon121
Gray Eminence
Registered: May 2011
From Croatia
Posted November 21, 2014
That's my pet peeve. I always have trouble finding those obscure save game locations. I wish games would just put them inside their own folder.
paladin181
Cheese
Registered: Nov 2012
From United States
Posted November 21, 2014
User\Documents\Developer\Game
That's also fairly common in newer games
That's also fairly common in newer games
Grargar
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Registered: Aug 2012
From Greece
Posted November 21, 2014
PCGamingWiki lists a good amount of information about PC games (including lots of GOG ones), including their save file locations.
Post edited November 21, 2014 by Grargar
Starmaker
go Clarice!
Registered: Sep 2010
From Russian Federation
Nirth
Travel
Registered: Oct 2010
From Other
Posted November 21, 2014
Everything
It takes a few seconds, maybe minutes if you have a slow CPU to index all your files but afterwards, it takes minimal time to search anything. Just write fallout and you will see everything that has to do with fallout and with that filter you can easily and quickly filter the by name, path, modified, date to find it.
Not necessary for this specific purpose but in general to find something it's awesome.
It takes a few seconds, maybe minutes if you have a slow CPU to index all your files but afterwards, it takes minimal time to search anything. Just write fallout and you will see everything that has to do with fallout and with that filter you can easily and quickly filter the by name, path, modified, date to find it.
Not necessary for this specific purpose but in general to find something it's awesome.