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This game left files so deep in my computer I was finding them for YEARS. f**k this game.
Only way to rid this game from my pc was to build a new one and reinstall windows.
If you don't mind me asking, do you recall anything about where those files were or what they were called? The game itself should only be writing files in its install folder and to Steam cloud.
No I was a year one player, this was so long ago that I can’t recall much of anything. I just know that I was finding them for years after uninstalling the game.
Also I say f**k this game solely because of that, the game Itself was good. I wish I could remember more about where and what I was finding. I would go looking for stuff to remove to save myself some space and I’d find these files related to the game in places I assumed they were never meant to go. Maybe it was some image files like the desktop icon, but in a folder that wasn’t a desktop folder. Are there locations that image files would go independent of the game like a desktop icon?
Thanks for your support back in the day, happy to hear you otherwise enjoyed the game!
For the desktop icon the only thing that comes to mind is if the shortcut got copied elsewhere somehow.
For what it's worth, I took a look through the codebase for places that write images to disk. It's possible something was wrong or different in the past, but at least in the current version I believe the only images written would be:
- Screenshots saved into the install folder Screenshots subfolder. Note: Steam has an optional "Save an external copy of my screenshots" option which defaults to your Documents folder.
- Level editor tools to render the "chart" and "satellite" views into the per-level folder.
- Tools for modders to export icons into the install folder Extras subfolder.
If anyone else comes across this in the future and has run into a similar issue / believes some files are being written where they shouldn't, please feel free to get in touch!