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Hello,

i have the game on steam but i want to use multiple copies because i want the ability to play on other multiplayer servers without constantly having to toggle mods on my main game for myself.

so i wanted to look into running multiple copies on my computer with different mods installed for each copy.

i tried looking through the application directory wiki and that is extremely unhelpful.

the directions in the config-path file probably make sense to some people, but make zero sense to me.

i tried changing that to:
use-system-read-write-data-directories=true

and in the /config/config.cfg file i set it to this:
[path]
read-data=F:\Factorio
write-data=F:\Factorio

but... no joy.

and nothing helps. it still keeps using my windows directory for mods/saves.

this may be a limitation of steam where it launches the game it has "configured" for that game, but i just would want confirmation.

if you cant do this with Steam version, i guess i will be screwed for multiplayer servers.

You can link your steam account to our website,
Which will let you donwload the DRM free .zip copy,
Which makes it a lot easier to manage multiple copies of the game

will that zipped file be able to get setam functions and achievments then?

smeagol001 wrote:will that zipped file be able to get setam functions and achievments then?

You posted this a while ago, but in case you don't know yet: The non-steam version doesn't get steam achievements. It does track them locally though, so in game you can get them.

You don't get Steam achievements when playing with mods anyway ... so it shouldn't matter for playing on modded servers.