I moved my game installation to another drive using the Steam feature. I start the game, it asks for an installation, looks like a check, it's fast, game starts. I don't have my preferences, sound, video, no FFB profile... I create a new profile and check the directories in Documents\My Games\SimBin. I find that the new profile is created under the directory "RaceRoom Racing Experience Install 7" so the previous one "RaceRoom Racing Experience" seems not used at all. To recover my preferences, should I copy/paste all my preferences files from "RaceRoom Racing Experience" to "RaceRoom Racing Experience Install 7"? Shouldn't S3S fix this or did I do something wrong?
Hey. You can just copy the GameInstallDir.ini from the new install (7) and replace the one in the old install. And then you can delete the entire new Install 7 folder.
What Kitsune said. Not sure they can do sth about this tbh. There need to be several documents folders f.e. for dedi hosts (or people running several builds simultaneously for testing purposes ). The folder naming could be a bit clearer, but that has been discussed already. However, I would not advise to move an existing installation. We've had several people reporting issues which in the end turned out to be caused by moving their RR installation.
Thanks. I reorganized some disk partitions so I don't have choice, apart downloading the game again which sounds stupid. I'll see if that works fine later, I didn't play it yet. Praise for me.
Good luck. Hopefully it all works out just fine. Just wanted to give you a heads up, if you run into any problems consider this as a possible cause.
A bit off topic, but I once moved steam, origin etc. to a different disk. Windows allows to create directory link mappings via command line. So the original install dir forwards to the new location. Meaning you don't need to change anything as it's a 1 to 1 mapping. I did this with the content folders.
That's what Kitsune proposed, or almost. ^^ My first thought was to use symbolinc link like in Linux, but I have more knowledge in Linux than Windows and didn't know (and didn't search if) there was this feature. ^^ Thanks for the tip.
You can use Code: mklink from the command line. See this: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194(WS.10).aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 But I agree, Code: ln -s is cooler