Confusion about game saving

Gandalf Parker · #1 November 29th, 2003, 04:12 AM

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Originally posted by Johan K:

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I also don't see any way to specify directories in the command line switches, but hopefully I'm missing something.

The save directory can be specified by setting the DOM2_SAVE enivornment variable. It is possible to set data and temp directory too if you really want to.

Very nice. By "data" do you mean the home directory? That seems to be where Dom2 keeps its data. That way newlords and maps can both be off of that. Does this work with Linux also? This would be very handy in setting up multiple games off of a server.

Johan K · #2 November 29th, 2003, 12:14 PM

To clear some confusion, here are the env variables, their default value and what they are used for.

DOM2_SAVE default="." Save directories and the newlords directory are created here. You need write permissions here.

DOM2_DATA default="." Data files, the maps folder and the rawsound folder must be found here. You only need read permissions here.

And Raen your problem with two game using the same save directory seems strange. Maybe one of your shortcuts doesn't set the current directory and thus the old one is still used.

Raen · #3 November 29th, 2003, 01:09 PM

Ok, I'm probably doing something wrong, but I tried the following 2-line .bat file (executed from within the Dominions2 directory) and I got "cannot create config file":

set dom2_save=".\test"
dom2 --window --res 1000 725

What did I do wrong? (I created the test directory before running the .bat)

Johan K · #4 November 29th, 2003, 01:49 PM

Try specifying the complete path like c:\games\dominions2\test or something like that.

Edit: Dominions2 doesn't want the "", I only added those to make the dot clearer. So I think you should do set DOM2_SAVE=./test, unless the set command really requires those "". I seldom use dos.

[ November 29, 2003, 12:02: Message edited by: Johan K ]

Raen · #5 November 30th, 2003, 02:30 AM

Yeah I tried taking out the quotes before I came here and saw your edit

It's working now.

A minor annoyance is that you have to enter the CD key again, but I can live with that.

Thanks for your help.

Gandalf Parker · #6 November 29th, 2003, 04:04 PM

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Originally posted by Raen:
A minor annoyance is that you have to enter the CD key again, but I can live with that.

I havent tested but it looks like the key is saved as a simple text file. Check for the latest file created in that dir. You should be able to copy it to where you need it.