Dark Souls III (And potentially any other game using a SteamID variable in the file path)

[gdiazbanuelos]

The default save location for Dark Souls 3 does not work.

I have a save file on my pc, this is the out of box behavior when first time setting up the app, and resetting it under the settings tab.

The default location for DS3 save file for Windows is set to:
%APPDATA%\DarkSoulsIII\%USERID%\DS30000.sl2

However, that points to the specific save file DS30000.sl2, not the directory.
Secondly, the %USERID% is not a valid Windows variable. This variable references your personal SteamID64 as a signed hexadecimal.

I took a look at my file path for my DS3 save file. It was:
%APPDATA%\DarkSoulsIII\{SteamID64Hex}

I plugged in my Steam account here (https://steamid.io/lookup/), took the steamID64 and converted the decimal to a signed hex here (https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/decimal-to-hex.html). The signed hex matched the number being used for the file path (the capitalization was in all caps where the native file path in windows was all lowercase, but Windows is case-insensitive):
%APPDATA%\DarkSoulsIII\{SteamID64Hex}

I then hard code my {SteamID64Hex} as the file path:

Then it was recognized as a valid path:

This issue will affect any game that uses any SteamID variable instead of a native Windows variable for it's file path.

[DavidDeSimone]

Thank you for the report - we are indeed using the wrong substitution here.

We manually swap out %USERID% with your Username - however you are correct that should be your SteamID64Hex. I will try to see if I can sneak in a fix for 0.18, but I am trying to get that out the door in the next couple of days, so it might have to wait until 0.19