How to choose a different directory for the scummvm.ini?

ensoniq2k · Post by **ensoniq2k** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 10:59 pm

Hi!

I wanted to make a collection of all my scumm-games on my SD-Card, including the win32 scummvm. If put the scummvm.exe on the SD Card, it is still reading the scummvm.ini from the c:\windows directory, if i take my games with me to a friend, it is loading again from his windows directory, won't find a scummvm.ini and i have to add my games again, is there any chance to make the scummvm.exe loading it's settings from the same directory where the scummvm.exe is located?

Thanks for your help

Ender · Post by **Ender** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:01 am

Use the -c command line option. So, just create a shortcut to scummvm.exe with something like "-c .\config.ini", I guess.

See the README file for all this, and more :)

ensoniq2k · Post by **ensoniq2k** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:10 pm

Thanks for your help

I just read the whole readme and i'm wondering if i could make the path's of my games, at the moment like "e:\games\scumm\anyscummgame\" to an relative path, so if i copy this scummvm.ini and the games to the memorycard they are not corrupted because the new path would be like "i:\scumm\anyscummgame\" is there a chance of making this working?

clem · Post by **clem** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:42 pm

did you try it yet?

I just changed "C:\scummvm\queen" to "\scummvm\queen" in C:\windows\scummvm.ini and it still worked

not sure which drive letter it assumes though when doing that from a removable drive

clem

joachimeberhard · Post by **joachimeberhard** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:47 pm

clem wrote:did you try it yet?

I just changed "C:\scummvm\queen" to "\scummvm\queen" in C:\windows\scummvm.ini and it still worked

not sure which drive letter it assumes though when doing that from a removable drive

clem

It assumes the "run from" directory.

Eg, when you start scummvm from a removable device, it takes the removable device's drive letter, thus being drive letter independant.

ensoniq2k · Post by **ensoniq2k** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:03 pm

I just changed my ScummVM.ini and now everything works really fine, now i have a great portable game collection, thanks a lot to you all

joachimeberhard · Post by **joachimeberhard** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:35 pm

It's even better to take ".\" instead of "\"

Example:

You have your ScummVM.ini in C:\ScummVM and all games in subdirectories.

When changing path to \ScummVM, the ScummVM folder always has to be in the root directory.

With .\ScummVM, you can move your entire ScummVM folder around without changing anything. You can put it in C:\Games\ScummVM, D:\My\Favourite\Folder\ScummVM, anywhere you like.