A novice user may have questions about what to do with the purchased game disc? How and where to install games, how to save them, and where to find them later on your computer? Everything in order.
The game can be located either on a real, physically tangible CD or DVD, or presented as a disc image. Without going into technical details, the only difference between them is that the first one can be picked up and the second one cannot. A CD requires a disc reader, that is, a properly connected and functioning drive. For images - a program with which the user can create a virtual drive on a computer (Alcohol 120, Daemon Tools). In most cases, the process of installing a game on a computer is automated. Insert the CD into the drive, if it does not start automatically, open it through the "My Computer" item and left-click on the setup.exe or install.exe file. To work with the disk image, install the required program, launch it, create a new virtual drive and mount your disk image on it. The interface of such programs is intuitive, and all tools are signed. Further, the principle of operation will be the same as for a regular disk. "Installation wizard" of almost any game by default saves the necessary files to the local drive C. If during the installation you have not changed anything, look for your game in the future in the My computer / disk directory C / Program Files / folder with the name of the game or the name of the developer. During the installation process, you can change the installation directory. To do this, click on the "Browse" ("Change") button when the "Installation Wizard" prompts you to choose a path to save the game. After waiting for the installation to complete, look for your game in the folder that you yourself have assigned. On top of that, shortcuts for launching the game are almost always created on the desktop and in the Start menu. During the gameplay, the user is not prompted to choose a path to save the scene. For these purposes, each game creates a separate Saves folder in the directory specified by the developers. You can find it, as a rule, in the folder with the game itself. Also, a My games folder with a Saves subfolder for a specific game may be automatically created in the My Documents folder.
