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finalhack13

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

Tampa, Florida

Warriors Of Anu [WOA]

Mo/E

01 Dec 2007 at 22:24 - 1

I just installed Guild Wars on my Vista and when I went to save a PvX build I couldn't find my folder to save it in! Is there anyway to remake that folder or do I have to reinstall Guild Wars....

Bowstring Badass

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Character selection screen figuring what I want to play...

Purple Lingerie - :D

01 Dec 2007 at 22:35 - 2

Save it inside of Guild wars and GW should remake the folder for you I believe.

If you don't know how just put [name of template;code]

gremlin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

GWAR

Me/Mo

01 Dec 2007 at 22:37 - 3

Havn't got vista but my template folder is in the gw folder.
Have you tried saving a template while in the game and watching where it says its saving it ?

Mine is in D:\Games\Guild Wars\Templates\Skills
So I guess the default folder would be C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Templates\Skills

isamu kurosawa

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

United Kingdom

Me/

01 Dec 2007 at 22:37 - 4

should be in "X:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\guild wars"

Vista installations stick it there for some reason.

bsoltan

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2005

UK

[SoF]

01 Dec 2007 at 23:49 - 5

For security reasons in Vista the Guild Wars folder that data is saved to (builds, templates, screenshots etc.) is in you My Documents folder.

This makes a lot of sense to me. I wish XP would do it too.

CyberMesh0

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Charter Vanguard [CV]

N/Me

02 Dec 2007 at 00:08 - 6

I can confirm what's been said, I am also running Vista.

Jedimagician

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

02 Dec 2007 at 06:45 - 7

if u want it back inside your gw folder like xp, just run gw under compatibility mode for xp

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

02 Dec 2007 at 17:28 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by bsoltan

For security reasons in Vista the Guild Wars folder that data is saved to (builds, templates, screenshots etc.) is in you My Documents folder.

This makes a lot of sense to me. I wish XP would do it too.

Security reasons?!? No thank you! At the moment I have my OS (XP) on one partition and my games (GW) on another. If something trashes the OS and I have to reinstall/reformat, I don't have to worry about losing my GW stuff (or other saved games etc.)

Yes, I know, Vista probably has something equivalent to the "File and Settings Transfer Wizard" - if your Vista is not so screwed up you can't boot it.
And yes, I know, you can just copy the files from the My Documents folder - if you can find it, and it's not trashed with the OS.

And, yes, I know that if the whole hard drive crashes I would still lose all the GW stuff, but if I was that paranoid I would run GW off my RAID1.

dargon

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

The Seraphim Knights [TSK]

R/

03 Dec 2007 at 08:58 - 9

as they said, it's in "X:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\guild wars". This applies to ALL games that right out data in Vista. So for example, crysis save games would be in "X:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\crysis". etc etc etc. It's just how microsoft designed Vista to work.

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

03 Dec 2007 at 14:10 - 10

Quote:

Originally Posted by dargon

as they said, it's in "X:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\guild wars". This applies to ALL games that right(sic) out data in Vista. So for example, crysis save games would be in "X:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\crysis". etc etc etc. It's just how microsoft designed Vista to work.

I'd be curious to know how Vista determines what data should be saved under Documents. Or is ALL saved data redirected from where you want it to where Vista thinks it should be?

Sounds like another good reason to avoid Vista if you ask me.