Unable to locate save folder.

[palmera]

boi oh boi oh boi... 

so this is silly. strange, and fully well I've never seen this before. and i have spent the last 3 hours looking for help. going through stuff online and even asking on discord, where 2 helpful and nice folk. like me are stumped. i was told to come here. where I have been so far met with the largest activation key i have ever seen in my whole life. and i used to enter keys when i was refurbishing computers back when XP was a operating system...

now that I'm done that rant. my problem is simple enough. 

first off i bought this game off steam last month. i enjoy it. but well who doesn't want to cheat once and a while right? max out those tech trees and dominate with no issues right? well found out you can do that by editing save game files.

now enter my problem. my game saves no problem. it loads no problem. hell I've played several campaigns already. and again, no issue saving and loading right where it left off.
where is my game saving too... sure as hell isn't where it says it is. because I've checked. re checked. and even manually inputted the commands for that location. and you guessed it. I'm pissed... and even more pissed to find out. it wasn't always like this. so now I'm here, trying to find out how this can be fixed. those are 2 files... (really not a fan of forums)... but i need the help.

so William, please. get in contact with me. PalmerA is my Discord. 

PS sorry for all my lack of caps and proper use of grammar, its 2 AM. and i wanted to get this up, so it can be seen, and someone can take a look at it, and hopefully have a answer.
PSS yes i know cheating isnt cool. but you know what, its ok once in a while and i wanted to explore the late game global domination early on.

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[blarglol]

Your first picture is looking at OneDrive. It's not in that, but normal documents. Otherwise, look under your Steam files, Steamapps, etc.

I have the Matrix version and it's in Documents, just not under OneDrive

[palmera]

did, its no longer under steam.

and i checked under documents.

[palmera]

cant post the image. ugh

[williammiller]

palmera -


When you save a game in v1.00.41 or later the game actually tells you where your save game is located at:

[blarglol]

Do you have a D drive? Also - can you save preferences? If you play a game, change preferences, exit, and load that game again - do they stay the same or are they reset?

[golingarf]

Jul 12, 2024 11:32:09 GMT -6 williammiller said:

palmera -

The "user" part of the path to the save game is your current Windows account user name...for example say my Windows username is "miller", the path to the save games would then be "C:\Users\miller\Documents\My Games\Rule the Waves 3\Save".
If I was using OneDrive then the path should be something like: "C:\Users\miller\OneDrive\Documents\My Games\Rule the Waves 3\Save".

Also, you can do a drive-wide search for a file by opening the root of your hard drive in Windows explorer and typing in the filename in the search box...for a save folder you could use one of the save game folder-names, for example "Game1".

I don't have this problem but a lot of people do.

When you save the game, it states the save location but the text does not wrap around and so the end of the file path is not visible. That should be easy to fix.