Doomsday Engine

Just to clarify, my response file specifies -userdir "G:\DOOM\Doomsday\WADS\user" -savedir "G:\DOOM\Doomsday\WADS\user\savegame\doom2". When I started Doomsday 1.14.0 it loaded my existing savegame from the specified folder, but when I re-saved the game it placed it in G:\DOOM\Doomsday\user\savegame\doom2, not G:\DOOM\Doomsday\WADS\user\savegame\doom2.

I forgot to mention that when I restarted Doomsday it loaded the savegame from G:\DOOM\Doomsday\user\savegames\doom2, not G:\DOOM\Doomsday\WADS\user\savegame\doom2. It seems that 1.14.0 checks G:\DOOM\Doomsday\user\savegames\doom2 for savegames first, then looks in the folder specified by -savedir.

The storage location of savegames has indeed changed in 1.14. The save files are now always stored under <userdir>/savegames. The -savedir option is only used for determining where savefiles in the old format can be found (in case they aren't under <userdir>).

So I think once your old saves have been automatically converted and copied to <userdir>/savegames by the savegametool, you can just leave out the -savedir option from your response files and let Doomsday manage the files under <userdir>/savegames?

Thanks for the clarification. I looked through the release notes and detailed list of changes for 1.14.0 and this is not listed in either place. Has the behavior for any other command line options been changed as well?

Is there any chance the -savedir option can be reinstated to allow redirection of that folder again?

It's much more robust to write to the application folder as the files are preserved no matter what happens externally (e.g. a Windows reinstall).