Question My C: Drive won't let some programs/games write some files to it ?

[Iver Hicarte]

So I downloaded a game called Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (a classic by the way, loved and addicted to it since it was released), and throughout the many years that I have spent playing this game, I have come to notice that it acts like Minecraft, there are some files that will only generate when you run and start the actual game. I have noticed that after starting the game, there were some options that I usually touch that went missing. Long story short, I found out that the files it usually generates on the drive it is installed on were not appearing/not being written to the drive, so some settings were missing even though the game runs fine.

I have admin privileges on my system and I only have one account which is for yours truly. So as a workaround, I tried installing the game on my NON-OS drive, and that worked. But I have some applications, not games, that also act like this where it only generates some files after running it, and I would prefer it being installed on my OS drive, since my OS drive is an SSD. Sadly it has that issue where some files are not being written on my C: drive. Hence, those applications don't fully function as intended. This is also why I gave that classic game scenario so you guys here can better grasp what I'm talking about and hopefully help me resolve this issue. Btw, I'm still on Windows 10

 

[helpstar]

set the compatibility mode to windows XP and try again. The problem with these games is that the folder structure was altered after some years in windows, so the default user folders where the settings are saved is not available anymore and can lead to problems depending on the programming of the applications.

 

[Iver Hicarte]

set the compatibility mode to windows XP and try again. The problem with these games is that the folder structure was altered after some years in windows, so the default user folders where the settings are saved is not available anymore and can lead to problems depending on the programming of the applications.

Ohhhh, so what you're saying for example is...that there are some "scripts", let's just call it that, that were available during the old versions of Windows that are not present anymore in the modern version, hence, a program or a game could not fill in those gaps, and those gaps that could not be filled in could either be very important or minor depending on the structure of the game or the software, but just gets installed anyway. This is how I understand it, am I close to what you're implying?

 

[helpstar]

basically yes