Change savegame location

[bh-schmidt]

Recently I had to move my EU5 and EU4 savegames out of the default path because it was consuming a lot of space in my OneDrive. This change made the PDX Unlimiter stop working because it is searching for the default path, is there a workaround to solve this? If not is there the possibility to add a field at the bottom of the game to map the new savegame directory?

I changed the directory by adding these arguments at steam: --userdir="C:\games\documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis V"

Thanks!

[crschnick]

Is that argument documented somewhere?

[bh-schmidt]

Is that argument documented somewhere?

I didn't find it officially documented, but it is officially posted by a moderator in this thread. Here instead of using an argument it creates a file userdir.txt, where it maps to the new directory.

I initially found out this argument at this thread.

I tested both methods in EU4 and EU5 and here is the results I've got:

	ARGUMENT	TXT CONFIG
EU4	WORKING	WORKING
EU5	WORKING	NOT WORKING

[crschnick]

I think you might be able to trick pdxu by creating a userdir.txt in the EU5 install root directory. That should make it look in that directory as the code was copied from eu4

[bh-schmidt]

Just tried doing this and this is what I've got.

EU5 (Using execution arguments + userdir.txt)

Here the Import function is working fine and Continue game is copying the files to the correct directory, but I've got these problems:

• The Revert to autosave and Load latest checkpoint copied the saves to the correct directory, but they didn't restart correctly, they went directly into the Initial Menu and regenerated the config files in the default directory like it was the first time running the game (I suppose this is because of the lacking execution arguments).

EU4 (using only userdir.txt)

Here I had these problems:

• The Continue game is copying my saves into the default directory.
• The Import function didn't work, nothing happened.
• The Revert to autosave and Load latest checkpoint just closed the game and never opened again.

[crschnick]

Yes, it currently does not pass the execution arguments.

About eu4, that should work in theory. I will look into that.

For now, if you are using pdxu anyways, you can do two things: Used the default directory for EU5 and in the pdxu settings change the storage location and enable to delete savegames on import. That way, you won't consume any space in your onedrive