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Posted July 02, 2011
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hedwards: Which also means that if you get one that's infected with some sort of malware or poor coding practice that it's even easier to go from vulnerability to outright exploit.
Sure, you should only install mods where you trust the source. But that's true for anything.
Posted July 02, 2011
Games get their own hard drive. G:\Games. I never use the default path.
Posted July 02, 2011
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Wishbone: I have two folders, C:\Games and C:\Apps, where I install most things. The only things that get installed to the default folder are low-level stuff like Java, and Microsoft programs. I've had too many problems with the Program Files folders on Vista and 7 in the past, so I generally avoid them if I think there's a chance I may need to edit any files in the installation folder.
Wow, I have almost the exact same setup, except my C: drive is Windows and low-level stuff only, while my additional applications and games are all on the D: drive, in separate "Applications" and "Games" directories.
Post edited July 02, 2011 by cogadh
Posted July 02, 2011
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hedwards: Which also means that if you get one that's infected with some sort of malware or poor coding practice that it's even easier to go from vulnerability to outright exploit.
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Irenaeus.: Sure, you should only install mods where you trust the source. But that's true for anything.
Yes, but you're still taking extra risks, if trusting the source was really enough we wouldn't need UAC. UAC exists because there's all sorts of nasty things that can happen either intentionally or unintentionally. I remember years back that there was a nasty bug with OSX where it would wipe partitions which started with a particular character.
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hedwards: Actually, most DOS games were perfectly happy installing pretty much wherever you tell them to, including directories that you can't delete and system directories.
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Navagon: That's what I meant. Developers had to then move onto Windows and don't seem to have figured it out properly, even after all these years and even though a lot of them are probably too young to even remember DOS.
Ah, gotcha. I think the bigger problem seems to be that Windows has historically had workarounds for that sort of thing. I'm not really sure that Linux and *NIX programmers are really that much better, but the platforms tend to be less tolerant of putting files in random places and user specific data never goes anywhere other than in the home directory of the appropriate user.

Something I wish that Mr. Gog would do, rather than having to worry about backing up my saves because they're intermingled with the program files.
Post edited July 02, 2011 by hedwards
Posted July 02, 2011
Mine are all scattered in either the Games, GOG, or Steam folder.
Posted July 02, 2011
This "default path" stuff brought me on the edge of madness for the past 20 years, because I've tried to group programs and games not by their default path but by developers, genres, types (for utility software) and so on.

Now I'm fucking tired of this craziness, so I've decided to use whatever the path is the default installation dir and kiss my bad dreams goodnight :-P
Post edited July 02, 2011 by KingofGnG
Posted July 02, 2011
I use Wine on Ubuntu to run games and tend to stick to the default path set by the installer. Everything before the 'c:' is not applicable to Windows.

/home/my_user_name/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/GOG.com/name_of_game
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/home/my_user_name/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/GOGcom/name_of_game

I am unsure weather some games cannot tolerate the decimal point or GOG developers changing the default path for new releases since Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
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