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Re:Dotfile madness by amaccuish on Saturday February 02, 2019 @12:54PM (#19064459)
There is literally a folder in every Windows profile (Vista onwards) called "Saved Games", it should all go there.
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Re:Dotfile madness by Wowfunhappy on Saturday February 02, 2019 @03:40PM (#19065565)
^ This. And the amazing thing is it's probably the least common place for games to put save data. I think I've played exactly one game that ever used it.
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Re:Dotfile madness by dmitrygr on Saturday February 02, 2019 @04:06PM (#19065710)
Most likely because the proper API to get the path to that folder was vista-or-later and games preferred to be backward compatible
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Re:Dotfile madness by Wowfunhappy on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:03PM (#19066017)
Okay, but now nothing supports XP, so there's no excuse!
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