Moving Game Directory (..\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's C...)

[debineezer]

Hey all...due to the fact that I'm (sssshhhhhh!) playing Civ IV on my work computer (during the off hours of course!), I need to move the preference folder out the My Docs subdirectory. I tried moving it and redirecting the _Civ4Config shortcut, but nothing doing.

It's not the end of the world if I can't do it, but all the same, I'd rather my network My Docs folder (which gets backed up daily) be storing evidence of my misuse of corporate assets

 

[Thrar]

I don't know how to do this either, but I'd also be very interested to find out if it's possible.
My 'documents and settings' folder is stored to network on shutdown and loaded from there when logging in. Space there is a bit limited so installing larger files as custom assets or mods (e.g. FfH) to the 'my games' folder is a problem.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Hi guys,

This is indeed possible. Check out the discussion and steps in this thread as well as this thread.

Reply back if you have trouble...

 

[debineezer]

THANK YOU! I swear, I searched every darn combination I could think of to no avail. It DOES still put an empty folder in "My Games", but there's nothing in it...kinda odd...

 

[Thrar]

Excellent!

If you want to get rid of that folder, maybe you can try using a batch file that starts Civ and afterwards deletes it?

File contents would be:

"<path to civ>\Civ4BeyondSword.exe" /altroot="D:\blah"
del "C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\My Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword"

Put that into an empty file, name it Civ.bat and try running it!

If you're on Windows XP (or Vista, I presume) you can use a tool called TweakUI to change the 'My Games' folder to be stored in a different place. Doing that, you should be able to run Civ without any special configurations I think.