Finding game path and installed mods programmatically?

jonwil · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 24 Jul 2005

Does anyone know of a way to identify the game path programmatically (e.g. reading something from registry) or how I can identify the installed mods and their paths programmatically?

Banshee · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2020 4:36 am Post subject:

That is... not... easy at all. The easiest solution is to ask the user. Really. But if this is not an option....

Steam:

1) You need to find out where Steam is originally installed.

Registry -> HKEY_CURENT_USER/SOFTWARE/VALVE/Steam

Then, read SteamPath.

2) In Steam Install directory, look for config directory. There is a file called config.vdf.

It is a text file, but you shouldn't bother about most of its content.

Focus on anything like BaseInstallFolder_X (where X is a number). Then, get the installation directory there. Then look for "1213210" and check if you find it before the next BaseInstallFolder_.

3) From that you add steamapps/CnCRemastered to the directory you have found and voila!

Origin:

Note: I do not have C&C: Remastered Edition on Origin, so I'll try to emulate it for another game and you may need to figure out how to use this information to find C&C Remastered there.

1) Find Origin game's directory.

Go to the current user directory on Windows (I.e.: C:\Users\MyUser

Inside it, look for AppData\Roaming\Origin\local.xml

And there's a line there that should give you the dir on Settings -> <Setting type="10" key="DownloadInPlaceDir" value="TheDirectoryIsHere!!!!"/>

2) Go to that directory and add \CnCRemastered to it.

And I guess this is it.

Good luck.

jonwil · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 24 Jul 2005

config.vdf on my system has no BaseInstallFolder at all.

Banshee · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2020 12:52 pm Post subject:

Weird...

Mine starts with is something like

Code:

"InstallConfigStore"
{
"Software"
{
   "valve"
   {
      "Steam"
      {
         "BaseInstallFolder_1"    "C:\\SteamLibrary"