0.22 Userfolder Path Changes

Could this potentially be causing Steam "disk write error" faults when updating? Restarts and cache clearing haven't solved the problem for me, so I'm stuck on 0.21.4 right now. My hard drive registers no issues or corruption, and other games installed on the same drive (Factorio comes to mind) still update fine, so I'm convinced the update's done something.

 

UPD. Setting a custom path solves the problem related to folder change.
Option 1 - simply go to BeamNG folder, find "startup.ini" in it and change the user folder to whatever you want:

Option 2 - open launcher, click the middle button out of 3 and set custom path via UI.
For me, the new BeamNG folder was created on default drive where Windows is installed. For examle, my path is:
"C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\BeamNG.drive\0.22.0.0"
Lots of users with a small SSD (64 - 128 GB) can not store their BeamNG folder on a system drive since it can get huge - mine is at 45 GB.

 

Yep, I'm in the same boat, although I have enough space to load all my mods as of now. Still, it would be infinitely preferable to have a way to configure where the userfolder actually exists, since currently I'm a bit short on space.

 

Check if your antivirus is blocking something BeamNG related. Mine was blocking the .exe which prevented it from updating.

 

i cant get the vehicle triggers to work btw

 

Thanks for the advice. Already tried that before posting here, added an exception to Steam. Luckily, it loaded normally after I restarted my computer for the second time. No idea what was causing it, though.

 

Thank you for your help and clarifying the issue. Though, I would like to say that my path changed more significantly since it switched to another disk.
My old v 0.21.4 path:
F:\Users\User\Documents\BeamNG.drive
My new v 0.22 path picked by the game automatically upon update:
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\BeamNG.drive\0.22.0.0\settings

Thanks for reminding about the possibility of making a custom path, it is made via launcher, right?

 

I moved all the libraries (e.g. Documents, Downloads, Videos, Images) from C to F to save space once I got my PC. Not entire user folder, so the programs which access stuff like AppData still write their data to C.
Sorry if this confused you.
Maybe this is a 0.0001% rare occurence situation.
I will try to change user path in launcher once the download of the next update is done and this will probably fix the issue for me and anyone else.
Very grateful for the help from BeamNG team!

 

For real. I haven't bothered setting a custom path for beamng since my documents is set to my game drive anyway. So many games pollute the documents folder I don't even use it for documents, so...

To my mind, appdata should not contain data that you ever expect users to interact with.

 

UGH. I have to agree that this is a horrible idea. 99% of games and applications put their USER data in the Documents folder. At least I see we can use a custom path to change things back, but I assume one of two things will happen in the future: 1) Updates will overwrite the ini file, so we will have to keep editing it, or 2) The game will eventually not let us have custom paths.

I understand this was to help relieve issues related to broken mods, but you do realize that people are simply going to copy their files to the new location, breaking the mods anyway, AND you've added a layer of frustration by changing the location. Then again, I suppose it's your application, so you're free to uproot the user experience all ya want.

 

microsoft is certainly allowed to have an opinion, but it's usually the wrong one, when it comes to user experience.

i've never heard of AV programs caring that you have hundreds of gigs of game mods in your documents folder.

the cloud was a mistake.

why hasn't microsoft just introduced a system library folder for game related content???? they are a gaming company now, no?

 

Hey, i have problem because all of my mod configuration is gone (what mods were used and what weren't) Is there a way to recover that?

 

that's such a bad way to detect ransomware lul

i cry for people that have to use AV

 

I copy-and-pasted everything from the old userfolder, to the new one, did I do it right?