Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems How to change where the game places save files?

I know where the location is under AppData, can access it perfectly fine. What I want to do is change where the game generates save files in, it's causing a needless bloat on my C drive. Please just focus on my question, I keep my drives very clean and well managed. Suggestions on how to clean my C drive will not be helpful here. So, in summation, as the title states, is there a way to change where BG 3 puts, and generates save files?

No and focusing on your question I will not offer suggestions.

Text is terrible for tone, so I'll just throw this out there and assume good will. When you say suggestions, would those be about changing where save files are generated or C drive management?

Many games do not offer way to change save location. They rely on windows generated variables.

You can try to do suggestion to Larian of course. But this will never be considered as bug.

As far as suggestion going forward I estimate 0 chance as personal opinion.

So left is the thing you already know.

Unofficially you could try to play around with windows symbolic directory links. I have succesfully used them in similar situations. I have not used them in years so details are bit fuzzy.
Maybe this sheds some light to the subject if you are interested in tinkering: https://www.2brightsparks.com/resources/articles/ntfs-hard-links-junctions-and-symbolic-links.html

I always hate this as well, saved games always defaulting to and being placed on the C drive. I hate this feature yet game developers won't stop doing it.

Which also reminds me, my D drive is a raid 0 2x4 Tb setup with 13 GB/s read speed, if my save games were loading from the game directory instead of my 130 GB C drive partition which is on a single M.2 partition so half of that, my load times would be faster.

I would also like to know if you can change the location/drive your BG3 save files are located. My save files are large, 10 gig at the moment, and I am running out of space on my C drive (which is around 230 gig).

I keep my C drive free of clutter and use it only for the system. I have other drives I use for everything else and I would like to change the location of BG3 save files to one of those drives...

Please, is there any way to change save file location?

You can limit how many auto and quick saves the game keeps. Only thing I can suggest.

My friend has a few characters now and less than a gig of saves.

I am a Characterhollic... I have many toons. That is why I have 10 gig of save files... lol

This. Reparse points / junctions / mounted folders is the way to go.

In addition to the article referenced by Cirrus550, you can also look here, to pick up a bit of terminology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_reparse_point . Another pretty good description of what they are: https://superuser.com/questions/1297273/what-is-a-reparse-point-and-why-is-it-named-so . Or you can just google it yourself.

NB: Make sure you know what you are doing. Careless playing with your file system on this level can screw up your drive(s) big time.

All I want is to simply be able to change where my save files go 'within' the game...
Thankfully... Larian has helped us delete some save files easily, therefore making it less of a problem.
Makes me wonder why the save files are not in the drive you installed the game on, probably something to do with appdata in C drive (which is my system drive and is only used for system files, not game files).

Thankfully this isn't an issue anymore. I've upgraded my main drive mainly for Starfield, but still. I equally don't get why we can't choose where saves go -_-