How to find a savegame location with Process Monitor.

[aimeeandbeatles]

I didnt know where to put this, but a moderator can merge it if be. I thought someone else may find it useful.

1. Download and launch Process Monitor. It's free.
2. Make sure Process Monitor is running ok. Next, open your game. And then open a savegame. Once you do that you can close it.
3. Now, in Process Monitor, open the filters. Next, go to Filter > Filter. And then you put in ProcessName > Is > and the process name of the game.
4. There will be a LOT of things. So you can use the filters to exclude some of them. Most of the time it'll be useful to limit the operation to ReadFile.
5. After a while you'll be likely to find where the process was accessing the savegame and it'll give you the path.

I hope someone else finds this useful. (One of my games dumped its savegames in Public Documents? weird)

EDIT: THough this takes a while. Sometimes its easier to check the regular locations -- on Vista, ProgramData and User/AppData. And dont forget the VirtualStores whatever those are

 

[Maniacal]

Probably just easier to look at the folders.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Probably just easier to look at the folders.

Yeah but sometimes they put them in very strange locations (e.g. one of my horse games put it under C:\Users\Aimee\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Director MX 2004... I guess the game was made with Macromedia?)

 

[Disgustipated]

I never could find my save games for Baldur's Gate (tutu) in order to import into Baldur's Gate 2 (using Windows 7 btw). Windows 7 can be annoying in this regard. This could help me out, thanks.