Many players do not think about where the computer can save their game files. Having made some progress in the game, the player may want to roll back their actions, and it may also be necessary to find the desired save. It may arise due to the fact that the player forgot to perform an important action in the game. How to find where the games are saved? In this article, we will find out where so-called game saves can be located on Windows.
Saved Location
Games are usually saved to system drive. As a rule, he has the letter C in the name.
To find the save on the system drive:
- go to "My Computer" and select drive C;
- having opened it, go to "documents and settings", after that select account - "local settings-applications";
- another way to find your save is to go to the "My games" section in the "Documents" folder;
- finally, you can go to the folder of the game itself, which will most likely be located in C / Program Files / Games. Look for the save files there by scrolling to the bottom;
- we draw your attention to the fact that if you want to download the save from the network, for example, in order to pass a certain mission, or rather to jump through it, then most likely the file is saved in the "Downloads" folder. Do not forget that you need to download the save from verified sources, so as not to download a virus program that can harm the game and the computer.
The Downloads folder is located in the Documents folder. You can learn more about where games can be saved from the article.
Want to quickly find a save for a game? Then to you here! This guide contains information about the most popular places and the rarest folders where developers put saves for their games. The article contains material not only about new, but also about old, as well as pirate games.
The information in the article is relevant only for personal computers running Windows, starting with Vista and older.
My Documents Folder
In this section of the Windows system, you can find saving games from the following companies and developers:
- Electronic Arts prefers to put the save directly into the folder, so you will immediately see the data of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Mirror "s Edge, Mirror" Edge: Catalyst, data and other materials of all games of the FIFA series.
- Please note that the EA Games folder can be created right there, where there will be save from Dead Space 2, Dead Space 3.
- All games in the Need for Speed \u200b\u200bseries are placed in My Documents, or in subfolders with the names of development studios, for example, Criterion Games (Hot Pursuit (2010), Most Wanted (2012)), Ghost Games (Need for Speed: Rivals, Need for Speed \u200b\u200b(2015)).
- But BioWare prefers to place all its games in a separate subfolder of the same name, in the "My Documents" directory. There you will find saves from Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age: Inquisition and others.
- You can’t help but walk past Rockstar Games - in the name folder, in the My Documents directory, there are saves from GTA 4, GTA 5, Max Payne 3 and others.
- Ubisoft games are also often placed in the “My Documents” folder - there you will find Assassin's Creed, ANNO, and many others.
- And, of course, WB Games - the preservation of Batman: Arkham City, Batman: Arkham City GOTY, Batman: Arkham Origins, Batman: Arkham Knight, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor are in the "My Documents" folder.
- Other publishers and developers also love this folder - in it you will find recent hits such as Lords of the Fallen, Witcher 3, Project CARS, Dying Light and many others.
My Games folder
I would also like to pay attention to the “My Games” folder located all in the same “My Documents” directory - there are saved Far Cry 3, Far Cry 4, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, GRiD series, Dirt series, Sid Meier "s series Civilization, Borderlands series, X-Com series, The Elder Scrolls series and, of course, Watch Dogs preservation.
Saved Games Special Folder
Few people even know about the existence of such a folder. However, if you go to C: \\ Users \\% Username% \\ Saved Games, you can find saves from Crysis 2, Crysis 3, RAGE, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Risen 3: Titan Lords, Command & Conquer 3 and others.
Folder roaming
The Roaming system folder is located at C: \\ Users \\% UserName% \\ AppData \\ Roaming. Many developers put their games there to save, but you need to look not only directly for subfolders with the name of a game, but also subfolders with the names of developers.
In the “Roaming” folder you can find the saves of the following games:
- Battle for Middle-Earth and Battle for Middle-Earth 2, and all add-ons;
- all games of the Total War series, including Total War: Shogun 2, Total War: Rome 2, Total War: Attila in a subfolder of The Creative Assembly;
- profiles of some Ubisoft games - Assassin's Creed series, Anno series, Tom Clancy's series;
- Cities: Skylines in a subfolder named Colossal Order;
- and some others.
Program Data and LocalLow Folder
The system folder “Program Data” is located at C: \\ ProgramData. As usual, you need to search for games to save not only directly by the names of a particular game, but also by subfolders with the name of the development studio. As an example, you can cite the latest games from Codemasters - DiRT 3: CE, GRID 2 and GRID: Autosport - the save from them are in this folder.
In the second case, you need a folder located at C: \\ Users \\% UserName% \\ AppData \\ LocalLow. Here you can find the Warhammer 40,000: Regicide save (in the Hammerfall Publishing folder), as well as save indie projects, for example, Armikrog (in the PencilTestStudios folder).
Where do indie games store saves?
In this case, you must first look directly in the game folder. However, if the game was released on Steam, then start the search from the "My Documents" folder, and then follow the instructions above.
Where do old games store saves?
If we are talking about games from 2000-2010, then the advice will be the same - the “My Documents” folder, the “My Games” sub-folder in the same place, the “Saved Games” system folder, and the “Roaming” system folder.
In addition, pay close attention to the folder itself with established game - there will probably be a folder “Data” or “Saves” with the saves.
Where do Origin games store saves?
Since this client is part of the Electronic Arts online store, the main My Documents folder will be the main place to search.
Where do Uplay games store saves?
IN lately all Ubisoft games occupy quite a few folders on the computer. Saves may be stored in My Documents, but game profiles, without which they would be useless, will be located in the Roaming folder, and some license information should be found in C: \\ Program Files (x86) \\ Ubisoft \\ Ubisoft Game Launcher.
Where do Battle.Net games store their save?
Alas, the games from Blizzard do not store any significant player data on his personal computer, everything lies on the company's servers.
Where do Steam games store saves?
In this case, you won’t have to run anywhere. It will only be necessary to clarify the details. Steam Client stores all the saves in its folder, for example, \\ Steam \\ userdata \\ 123456789, where 123456789 is the unique digital identifier of the user. I believe that most in the \\ Steam \\ userdata directory will have one folder, since only one account is registered.
We go into our conditional folder "123456789" and we see there a bunch of folders with digital names. To find the right one, compare the date of installation of the game with the date of creation of the folder, if it was a long time ago and you no longer remember or for whatever reason, refer to.
Just enter a digital code into the search and pay attention to the end of the search results, block "Apps found for 242700":
Now let's talk about pirate games
Just note that the preservation of pirated games, licensed versions of which are distributed using Uplay or Origin, will lie all the same places as in the case of purchase. So you can easily find them by resorting to the instructions above.
Games from Blizzard, as mentioned above, have become entirely network, so there is nothing to pirate.
But with pirated Steam-games have to tinker, because the save, as mentioned above, have a digital code.
You can find this digital code through the same one, just enter the name of the game in the search, and also select the Game item in the App Type menu or you can go to Google asking “where is the licensed version of Game Name” stores the save “or“ where is the Steam version Game Name "stores save".
As soon as you find out the AppID, feel free to run a search on drive C or on the drive where you have Windows installed. The fact is that various repackers and crackers place the saves of pirated games released on Steam in completely different folders, these can be system folders like “Roaming”, “ProgramData”, subfolders with the names of release groups or crackers. Manually sorting through all the options is just a waste of time.
In all Windows operating systems, up to the recently appeared Windows 8, the screenshot was saved only to the clipboard. Clipboard it rAM. Usually you use the clipboard when you copy and paste something in another place. For example, selecting text, and pressing Ctrl + C, you put the selected text on the clipboard. Later you can paste this text in any convenient place.
The same thing happens when you press the Print Screen key. The Windows operating system takes a screenshot (a picture with everything that happens on your screen). After the screenshot is taken, operating system puts it on the clipboard.
After that, the screenshot is available to the user. It can be inserted into any program that knows how to work with images. In order to insert the received screenshot it is enough to use the usual key combination Ctrl + V or the “Paste” command from the context menu.
Most often, Paint is used to save screenshots. It is installed with the operating system and is available in the Start - All Programs menu. It can also be launched using the search or the Run menu, which is launched using the Windows + R key combination.
It should be recalled that, in addition to simply pressing the Print Screen key, you can use the Print Screen + Alt key combination. If you use this combination of keys, you will get a snapshot of only one active window, that is, the window that is located at the very top and with which you are working. Naturally, screenshots taken using the Print Screen + Alt combination are saved in exactly the same way. After taking a screenshot, it is placed on the clipboard, after which it can be pasted anywhere.
How to save Print Screen in the operating system Windows 8
Everything works the exact same way. But there is one feature here, besides the old keyboard shortcuts Print Screen and Print Screen + Alt, in Windows 8 there is another one - Windows + Print Screen.
The Windows keyboard shortcut + Print Screen automatically saves the screenshot to Libraries \\ Images \\ Screenshots. Thus, you immediately get the finished file, and you do not have to run Paint to save the resulting screenshot.
Many inexperienced computer users cannot find a file downloaded from the Internet. It seems that the file downloaded successfully, but it is not clear where exactly. You can try to find it by opening all the folders in a row, but you can spend a year of your life without finding anything. So what to do? Where are the files stored on the computer? Where then to look for them?
Where files are saved in the browser
But, let's sort it out gradually. Consider the procedure for finding files using the most popular browsers.
If you use Internet explorer, then even before downloading the file, you can save the document in a place convenient for you by clicking “Save As”. After which, a new window should open, in which you need to select the desired folder, and click "Save." If you just clicked save and have no idea where the file was saved, then go to your browser’s settings and then to “View downloads”. As a result, a list of downloaded files opens, from which you need to select the one you need.
The process of saving the file to opera browser similar to the previous one. To search for a previously downloaded file, you need to find “All downloads” in the left functional panel and click on it, after which a list of all downloaded files will open, and you just have to find the one you need.
FROM firefox browser things are somewhat more problematic. The problem is that when saving a file, it does not ask to specify it for saving, and sometimes there are difficulties with its search. To find the necessary download, go through the following menu chain: "Tools"\u003e "Downloads", and then find the file in the window that opens.
If you are an ardent supporter google browser Chrome, then you can find the just downloaded file in the panel below, or go to the "settings" and select "downloads" and look for it in the list.
It is also worth knowing where the downloaded files are saved through the Torrent program. The file is saved in my documents or in the download folder, however, the file storage location can be changed by going to the program settings.
If you did not change the settings in the browser or torrent, then the files are saved by default to a folder at the address D: \\ Users \\ Username \\ Downloads.
Where temporary files are stored
Many are also interested in the question: where are temporary files stored? The location of temporary files depends on which files you are looking for.
Temporary program files are saved on that hDDwhere the operating system is installed. That is, you need to open, for example, drive C, then go to the "Documents and Settings" folder, then to the "Username" folder, then to "Local Settings", and finally to the "Temp" folder (For Windows XP) or first drive C, then "Users", then the folder "Username", then "Local Settings", and "Temp" (for Windows Vista and 7)
If you are interested in the location of temporary browser files, then you should look for them in the drive chain C: \\ users \\ Username \\ Local Settings \\ Application Data \\ Browser Name.
If all attempts to find the file were unsuccessful, but you remember at least part of its name, then use the standard Windows search.
If from time to time you have problems finding on your computer files downloaded from the Internet, then in this article I will try to help you. I will tell you where files downloaded from the Internet are most often saved. Plus, let's see how you can change the save folder.
Naturally, the ways to save the files that we download from the network may vary depending on the program. So, for example, when downloading a browser, one way is used, and torrent programs the other, download managers such as Download Master - the third. But naturally, all folders in these programs for saving files can be reassigned, for your convenience.
So, in this tutorial we will look at the most popular programs, and see how to change the default download and save path. In a word, we will make sure that all the files that we will download from the Internet are placed in one folder, for example, in the "Downloads" on disk (D :).
In general, let’s go according to the following scheme: we look at where everything downloaded at the moment is saved and immediately change this folder to the one that is more convenient for us.
Where are files downloaded from the Internet saved?
Let's start with the Google Chrome browser. To understand where it currently saves files, you need to go to its settings by clicking on the corresponding icon in the upper right corner and select “Settings”.
Then go down a bit and see that there is a “Download” option. Item “ Download Location"Indicates where files downloaded from the Internet are currently stored.
By clicking on the “Change” button we can select another folder, for example, “Downloads” on the disk (D :), as agreed.
The changes made have taken effect and now everything downloaded from the Internet will be saved in this folder.
I want to draw your attention to the item: “ Ask for a place to save each file before downloading"By checking the box next to which, each time we have to choose the folder in which we want to upload the file.
IN mozilla Browser Firefox scheme is similar. We need to go to the settings by clicking on the appropriate items.
And immediately on the first tab "Basic" we see where the files are currently saved. In this case, this is the Downloads folder for saving files to Windows by default. It is located on the system drive.
I recommend that you change this path through the "Browse" button. Or you can set the switch to “ Always prompt to save files»And each time you upload files, select the folder you need, as is the case with Google Chrome.
I think we’ll stop at browsers for now and see where the files are saved in other programs, for example, uTorrent which is used to download files from torrent trackers.
Having opened the program, we can select the download we need and press the “Enter” button on the keyboard and the folder into which the file is downloaded, or already downloaded, will immediately open. This is the easiest way in uTorrent to find the file we are uploading.
And then go to the “Folders” tab, then you can choose the paths that are convenient for you, both for saving downloaded files, and for those that are just loading.
The last thing we will look at today is the Download Master, which is used to download files from the Internet replacing the standard download manager from the browser.
You need to open the main window download program Master and go along the path " Tools - Settings».
And on the “Downloads” tab, see where all downloaded files are saved, and if necessary, change this path using the button of the same name.
You can actually find out absolutely in any program that is designed to download files, or has a built-in function for these purposes, for example, in browsers. Well, and if necessary, you can go to the settings to change this path.
Hope now downloaded files from the Internet Do not get lost on your computer. And everything will be fine. Good luck.
