Has anyone else had problems with the game not saving due to have 2 drives? I've got 2 harddrives in my pc, one smaller SSD (C) for programs and a big fat normal drive (D) for everything else.
To save space, I moved the My Documents folder to the D drive. The problem is, for games that want to put saves/settings in My Documents, this sometimes goes screwy as the game isn't installed on the same drive as My Documents.
Alpha Protocol is apparently one of these games. It runs perfectly fine, it just doesn't save my settings and any savegames I try to make just well, don't get made.
I've googled the issue and the results confirmed my suspicion that it was due to the drive split, but there didn't seem to be a good fix for the issue. I tried making an Alpha Protocol folder with all the correct subfolders on the D drive, but that didn't help.
I want to play Alpha Protocol, but I really, really, don't want to change my Steam games install location to D or move My Documents back to C just for one game.
I do the same thing, my Steam games are installed on my D drive and my saves are on my E drive. I can't remember having any save issues last time I played.
What version of Windows are you using? I'm using 8 and it's much easier to do than when I was using 7.
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I think the difference here is in the moving of the My Documents folder. Not in using a different drive to save.
However, some games reeeealy don't like it when you try to modify default location settings. Most won't tell you and it's not a common issue because few people modify such things during installation.
In this case, NWK may need to just deal with saving game information on the C: Drive.
I think what I did is somehow fuck it up with the Library Documents thing as opposed to the actual My Documents folder.
Cooljammer00, the save files are tiny, that's not the problem. The problem is that the game wants to save the files in My Documents, so I'd need to either move My Documents back to the SSD or install my Steam games on my storage drive. Neither of these are appealing options.
edit: what I'm doing is copying the contents of My Documents to somewhere else on the storage drive, then I'm gonna remake/unbreak the My Documents folder/library. Hopefully it'll do the trick.
They're save files. How big can they be? Just save them to the SSD.
You can, but AP automatically saves to My Documents. If you moved the entire Documents folder to another harddrive, it would affect everything in that folder, not just AP.
Edit: I do it for all My folders, music, documents, pics, downloads, and videos. I don't want those files cluttering up my main SSD, which is only 60gigs. My game SSD is 110gigs, and my E drive is a standard 900gigs, which is where I keep those folders.
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What you want to do is move the directory, but also to create a hard link to the location where you moved the files. You can't use Explorer to move the files either, or the permissions and special directories get jacked up.
Important note: I didn't do this with my entire users directory, but instead with just my directory; e.g. I moved c:\users\moi, not c:\users. That gave me an out if things got all jacked up; I deliberately created a backup administrator account on top of the standard one and my own account just so I could un-fuck things.
What you want to do is move the directory, but also to create a hard link to the location where you moved the files. You can't use Explorer to move the files either, or the permissions and special directories get jacked up.
Important note: I didn't do this with my entire users directory, but instead with just my directory; e.g. I moved c:\users\moi, not c:\users. That gave me an out if things got all jacked up; I deliberately created a backup administrator account on top of the standard one and my own account just so I could un-fuck things.
Yeah, that's crazy complicated. Windows 8 just has you copy and paste the directory to your location in the folders properties. Takes less than five minutes for all of your standard personal folders.
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What you want to do is move the directory, but also to create a hard link to the location where you moved the files. You can't use Explorer to move the files either, or the permissions and special directories get jacked up.
Important note: I didn't do this with my entire users directory, but instead with just my directory; e.g. I moved c:\users\moi, not c:\users. That gave me an out if things got all jacked up; I deliberately created a backup administrator account on top of the standard one and my own account just so I could un-fuck things.
Yeah, that's crazy complicated. Windows 8 just has you copy and paste the directory to your location in the folders properties. Takes less than five minutes for all of your standard personal folders.
Honestly, the complicated stuff was just making sure you could easily back things out.
The actual procedure is:
1) robocopy your shit
2) remove the old directory
3) create hard link
4) reboot
But, well, I fuck around with computers for a living so I guess my perspective is a bit skewed.
I think at this point things are screwed up enough that I'd need to reformat my drive. I uninstalled Alpha Protocol the other day but I've done some futzing around with the My Documents folder so I'll see if I can get it working.
It might be a good idea to do a format anyway to keep things running smoothly. Thanks for the help guys, I'll let you know if I was able to get it working.
Were the game store exclusives obtainable in the game?
No. It was essentially DLC and you needed the code that came with the game to get them. You don't really need them to beat the game anyway (to be honest, I'm not sure which ones they even are [for the Best Buy Stealth Pack anyway]). And, of course, SEGA never bothered to release it as buyable DLC like practically every other exclusive content for every other game.
Maybe you can get lucky finding a new copy or an unused code in a used copy.
I guess I might wait for some sort of sale to get a GoD copy. Unless it's a game I expect to play all the time, anything more than five dollars for a game I still have the disc for is kind of a waste.
(Fun story! [Or not...] I bought my copy nearly six months after the included code said it expired. Worked like a charm. Sometimes I wonder why they bother with expiration dates like that.)
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So I did a thing.. I just told steam to download Alpha Protocol. I don't know why, but I have only ever played through it once, back shortly after release, and.. well that seemed fun to play it again.
So I did a thing.. I just told steam to download Alpha Protocol. I don't know why, but I have only ever played through it once, back shortly after release, and.. well that seemed fun to play it again.
Pistols and Stealth still the way to go?
With a bit of Martial Arts thrown in. But yeah, Chain Shot still rules everything.
So I did a thing.. I just told steam to download Alpha Protocol. I don't know why, but I have only ever played through it once, back shortly after release, and.. well that seemed fun to play it again.
Pistols and Stealth still the way to go?
Unless you want to engage with the combat portions of the game then Stealth and Pistols are still clearly the way to go.
The key thing is to pick a persona to role-play and stick to that persona. Inhabit the role. Don't try and game the system, the most rewarding way to play is to stick to your personality and be amazed at how the conversations adapt to you.
And enough of the...tech tree? To get the ability to use ECMs to skip minigames, and maybe unlock brilliance to make chain shot even sillier. Not sure if those were 2 separate trees, but it's only a few points in either anyway
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To save space, I moved the My Documents folder to the D drive. The problem is, for games that want to put saves/settings in My Documents, this sometimes goes screwy as the game isn't installed on the same drive as My Documents.
Alpha Protocol is apparently one of these games. It runs perfectly fine, it just doesn't save my settings and any savegames I try to make just well, don't get made.
I've googled the issue and the results confirmed my suspicion that it was due to the drive split, but there didn't seem to be a good fix for the issue. I tried making an Alpha Protocol folder with all the correct subfolders on the D drive, but that didn't help.
I want to play Alpha Protocol, but I really, really, don't want to change my Steam games install location to D or move My Documents back to C just for one game.
Does anyone have an idea for a workaround or fix?
If you did, you shouldn't have any problems.
If you didn't, how the fuck did it work in the first place?!!!
How would I be able to check?
You can use http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768 this to see if it is a junction.
I seem to recall you need to go through some contortions to make the special directories (e.g. My Music) work right.
What version of Windows are you using? I'm using 8 and it's much easier to do than when I was using 7.
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However, some games reeeealy don't like it when you try to modify default location settings. Most won't tell you and it's not a common issue because few people modify such things during installation.
In this case, NWK may need to just deal with saving game information on the C: Drive.
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Cooljammer00, the save files are tiny, that's not the problem. The problem is that the game wants to save the files in My Documents, so I'd need to either move My Documents back to the SSD or install my Steam games on my storage drive. Neither of these are appealing options.
edit: what I'm doing is copying the contents of My Documents to somewhere else on the storage drive, then I'm gonna remake/unbreak the My Documents folder/library. Hopefully it'll do the trick.
You can, but AP automatically saves to My Documents. If you moved the entire Documents folder to another harddrive, it would affect everything in that folder, not just AP.
Edit: I do it for all My folders, music, documents, pics, downloads, and videos. I don't want those files cluttering up my main SSD, which is only 60gigs. My game SSD is 110gigs, and my E drive is a standard 900gigs, which is where I keep those folders.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
I think the procedure listed here will work (at least, the steps, if not the parameters, sound like what I vaguely remember doing): http://lifehacker.com/5467758/move-the-users-directory-in-windows-7
Important note: I didn't do this with my entire users directory, but instead with just my directory; e.g. I moved c:\users\moi, not c:\users. That gave me an out if things got all jacked up; I deliberately created a backup administrator account on top of the standard one and my own account just so I could un-fuck things.
Yeah, that's crazy complicated. Windows 8 just has you copy and paste the directory to your location in the folders properties. Takes less than five minutes for all of your standard personal folders.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
Honestly, the complicated stuff was just making sure you could easily back things out.
The actual procedure is:
1) robocopy your shit
2) remove the old directory
3) create hard link
4) reboot
But, well, I fuck around with computers for a living so I guess my perspective is a bit skewed.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
It might be a good idea to do a format anyway to keep things running smoothly. Thanks for the help guys, I'll let you know if I was able to get it working.
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Will wonders never cease? Next thing you know, Sega will actually approve a patch/update!
Fuck...
Then they let people stream their games. After that I guess the Rapture. :P
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I'm wondering why you even uninstalled it...?
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No. It was essentially DLC and you needed the code that came with the game to get them. You don't really need them to beat the game anyway (to be honest, I'm not sure which ones they even are [for the Best Buy Stealth Pack anyway]). And, of course, SEGA never bothered to release it as buyable DLC like practically every other exclusive content for every other game.
Maybe you can get lucky finding a new copy or an unused code in a used copy.
I guess I might wait for some sort of sale to get a GoD copy. Unless it's a game I expect to play all the time, anything more than five dollars for a game I still have the disc for is kind of a waste.
(Fun story! [Or not...] I bought my copy nearly six months after the included code said it expired. Worked like a charm. Sometimes I wonder why they bother with expiration dates like that.)
I built a new computer earlier this year that only has a 500GB hard drive. Not enough room for every game in my library.
What is this, 2006?
SSDs are for your OS and programs!
Not for bulk data!
I just uninstall games when I'm done with them.
My moderately-quiet PC's case fans are louder than the hard drives, and the fans I paid extra for the quiet ones.
I'm rocking one SSD for my OS, one SSD for my other games, one HDD for movies, photos, music, and other shit, and one backup external hard-drive.
The backup is the only thing loud about my computer, but only when it's backing up.
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Is Chris gonna get involved with Klei in that project?
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
Pistols and Stealth still the way to go?
With a bit of Martial Arts thrown in. But yeah, Chain Shot still rules everything.
Unless you want to engage with the combat portions of the game then Stealth and Pistols are still clearly the way to go.
The key thing is to pick a persona to role-play and stick to that persona. Inhabit the role. Don't try and game the system, the most rewarding way to play is to stick to your personality and be amazed at how the conversations adapt to you.
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