20# Can’t Save Games on Local Hard Drive
At your desktop, navigate to your “My Games” folder then to the “Sid Meier’s Civilization 5? folder. Find the Config.ini file, right click and select “Edit”.
Scroll down to the section [Game], which is about 75% down the list. The third option under that is what you are looking for. It will look like this:
; Save Path – relative to working (Civ5) folder
FileName =
You need to put in the directory location of the “Saves” folder in the blank spot after FileName =
It should then look similar to this (check your own directory, it is different on different OS):
FileName = C:\Users\(Your Username)\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier’s Civilization 5\Saves\
Save the Config.ini file after your modification and congrats now you will be able to save games on your local hard drive.