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I've noticed that the Save Game location is not correctly obeying the Documents location on my system. Every other application/game knows that on my computer Documents is on my D drive... but RW3 does not follow this path and writes its own C:\Users\****\Documents\My Games\Rule the Waves 3\Save path. This documents folder on C does not exist except for RW3 trying to write to it. I've deleted it and it recreates it after the game launches. The launcher oddly knows where the "...\My Games\Rule the Waves 3" folder is on the D drive and it writes a preference file there and steam writes an "steam_autocloud.vdf" file there. So, the game itself is not looking for the correct value of the Documents folder it seems and just assumes it's on the C: drive. It's the only application doing this.

I have the same problem, and it seems that it's system specifics, so all I did know is just ignore that pesky pop up and play the game, since it run just fine anyway (and hope it get fixed sometime in the future)

I reported the same issue in the Tech Support subforum above. The devs are aware of the issue and will get to it when they can.

Meanwhile, I simply created a link in the Documents folder on the C: drive called "My Games" that points to the "My Games" folder on the D: drive.

To do this,

1. I opened two instances of Windows Explorer (WE), one on the "RTW3" folder in the Documents folder on the C: drive and the other on the "My Games" folder on the D: drive.
2. I opened a Command Prompt window using admin privileges (this important!).
3. On the command line I changed the directory to the Documents folder on the C: drive - to save typing you can copy/paste the path from the C: WE.
4. Using the C: WE, I copied the RTW3 folder to the "My Games" folder on the D: drive and verified I had a good copy with the D: WE. Then, I removed the "My Games" folder from the C: drive and verified the Documents folder is empty. You can also make a second copy as a backup, because having a good backup is always a good thing!
5. In the command window I typed the command: mklink /D "C:\<path to documents folder on my C:>\My Games" "D:\<path to document folder on my D:>\My Games".
6. When the command finishes it should report that a symbolic link was created. You can confirm this by entering the "dir" command at the prompt and you should see an entry marked by <SYMLINKD> My Games [<the path to the new location>].
7. Start RTW3 and it should be able to see all your previous saved games.

HTH