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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Krusty on March 21, 2011, 12:40:55 AM

Title: Advanced path options for film, screenshots, maybe textures/skins
Post by: Krusty on March 21, 2011, 12:40:55 AM

I built a newer PC lately. Not gaming with it yet (waiting for a gameport-to-USB adapter to arrive for my old analog pedals).

When I do I want to take advantage of the SSD primary drive. It will have my 1 TB SATA as a secondary drive.

However, to minimize swapping and all that I would love to be able to tell Aces High to write film files to the 1TB and not the SSD. I would love to tell it to write screenshots to that drive as well.

Or perhaps maybe I'm looking at it backwards... maybe we can install the game on the 1TB and tell it to load the textures and skins off the SSD so that they are the fastest part of the equation.


In short, I'd like to split the different files to different drives, to prioritize what needs the extra performance.

I'll be installing most of what I can on the 1TB but for AH I wanted some part of it on the SSD. I really would love to have it quick and responsive.

Title: Re: Advanced path options for film, screenshots, maybe textures/skins
Post by: Ack-Ack on March 21, 2011, 02:14:52 PM

I'd also like the ability to set a different save path for films and screenshots instead of using the default path.

ack-ack

Title: Re: Advanced path options for film, screenshots, maybe textures/skins
Post by: MachFly on March 21, 2011, 02:18:57 PM

+1

Title: Re: Advanced path options for film, screenshots, maybe textures/skins
Post by: gyrene81 on March 21, 2011, 02:38:27 PM

would be nice if it was possible to set a default location other than the game directory...be a lot easier to manage.

Title: Re: Advanced path options for film, screenshots, maybe textures/skins
Post by: Bruv119 on March 21, 2011, 02:41:32 PM

+1    this would have saved 32 pages in a different thread recently.   :D

Title: Re: Advanced path options for film, screenshots, maybe textures/skins
Post by: kvuo75 on March 21, 2011, 05:39:07 PM

wouldn't just replacing the films folder with a shortcut named "films" to a directory on the other drive work?


I guess it wouldnt work for screenshots, but I'm guessing it would work for films since it's a separate directory

Title: Re: Advanced path options for film, screenshots, maybe textures/skins
Post by: Chilli on March 23, 2011, 06:21:59 AM

 :aok Good wish.  Kvuo, the shortcut would still require some "swapping".  It would be nice to be able to automatically save films in another directory even.

Title: Re: Advanced path options for film, screenshots, maybe textures/skins
Post by: Noir on March 23, 2011, 10:54:19 AM

a shortcut isn't transparent for the game, it will look in the 'strict' folder tree, maybe with mapping a logical drive to a folder it could work, but it is hassle and requires a server OS IIRC.

+1 anyway, the film folder can become quite big

Title: Re: Advanced path options for film, screenshots, maybe textures/skins
Post by: JOACH1M on March 23, 2011, 11:25:29 AM

Quote from: Bruv119 on March 21, 2011, 02:41:32 PM

+1    this would have saved 32 pages in a different thread recently.   :D

There would be no fun without drama!  :old:



On a more serious note +1

Title: Re: Advanced path options for film, screenshots, maybe textures/skins
Post by: kvuo75 on March 23, 2011, 03:53:42 PM

Quote from: Noir on March 23, 2011, 10:54:19 AM

a shortcut isn't transparent for the game,

ahh roger.. here I was thinking windows was slowly getting more unix-like.. guess not :cry