Vista users: Screenshot folder

Anyone using Vista can explain to me why is it saving images to a new location instead of the folder inside of the GW directory? If so, how to change that directory back?

Foe me GW was saving screenshots and templates to some random character folder which failed most of the time. I 'solved' the issues by running Guild Wars in Windows XP compatibility mode.

For me, It saves it in the "My document" Folder for some reason.

Yes, Windows Vista moves the folder to your My Documents in accordance with "Games for Windows" guidelines set down by microsoft to enable easier games coverage for gamers...

this is microsofts way of bringing some standardization to the games industry for PC users and its working pretty bloody well so far

Of course, Microsoft knows best.

Well, you make a game for an operating system, why the hell not have a set of operating system set guidelines so that things install and work more smoothly?

I'll try the compatibility mode and see if it works.

Regardless of what the GFW guidelines are, I should be able to save stuff wherever I want.

EDIT:

The Compatibility mode thing works! Thanks Hyper!

I will have to remember this when I get my version of Vista.

I dont know if it really is the game for windows thing...

Well they might be following some standards but not all. Mind you, To be branded GFW, you'll need 64 bit compatibility

Well.... that's just it... Right now GW isn't meant to be run on Windows Vista... I can't even get it to run at all on my system ever since i've installed Vista, so i imagine that when it is running you can expect some compatibility issues outside of that. If anything i'd say that the location of the Screenshots folder is the last of your worries until they release a patch making it run like it should on Vista.

I've had vista for a while now and GW works perfectly fine.

Umm, no, I actually had a rise in FPS and itseems a lot smoother aswell under Vista...

There is only one glitch I'm getting and thats the portal effect in nightfall showing through other objects as i get closer to it, but thats it

The fact Guild Wars won't save images to its own directory in Windows Vista without running in a compatibility mode is not because of some new invention by Microsoft, but a critical security feature that has so far been mostly ignored in previous versions of Windows even though every other operating system design has supported it for ages.

Preventing userspace programs from writing wherever they please on the hard drive prevents massive numbers of viruses and such from functioning as without the ability to modify other programs and system files they cannot easily compromise the entire system. Guild Wars is merely supporting this by not trying to write screenshots where it's not guaranteed to have write permissions.

Forcing this by default is one of the best new features of Windows Vista, in my opinion.

i hadn't looked at it as a security feature, but looking at it and thinking about it, it does seem to work aswell (aswell as being handy for backing up save games and screenshots from games from one space )