Enhancement: Detection of Problematic Locations of Target Game or Reloaded Folder

[dreamsyntax]

Games can fail to load properly if either the target game path OR Reloaded-II's primary folder...

• is located in a path that is synced by OneDrive. By default, logged in Microsoft accounts on Windows 11 try to sync Desktop to OneDrive. As such Reloaded.Mod.Loader.Bootstrapper.dll may reference C:\Users\someguy\OneDrive\Desktop\Reloaded-II
• contains special characters (ex: C:\Users\ͽͽʹ˧˧˧˧˧crqa5 userbruh\Desktop\Reloaded-II\)
• is on a NAS (ex: \\192.168.17.52\SharedStorage\Games\MyGoofyGame)

Describe the solution you'd like

• Implement runtime detection and suggested mitigation popups if either a game path or Reloaded-II contains potentially problematic state. Potentially offering to automatically move Reloaded-II's folder.

Alternatives

• Move Reloaded-II primary configuration back to AppData; Still does not account for games.

• Warning pops up on game load/launch IFF the target game crashes and the game or reloaded installation is in a 'known problematic path'

This may be a bit tricky to account for all cases and not negatively impact any Linux users. I'm not sure if we could reliably detect other cloud providers (such as DropBox) - so rather than a perfect solution, the highest priority imo is accounting for Windows 11 default case of OneDrive and the conflict with Desktop.

I plan to look into implementing a PR for this issue, but it may only partially resolve.

[Sewer56]

Unusually detailed ticket, I like those.

if either a game path

If a game path itself has special characters, you can probably assume the game handles itself fine.

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In any case, Reloaded-II itself has no issues with paths with special characters, aside from extraction with 7z.dll in case of special characters which may be fixable.

I think the best solution would be simply not installing R2 to OneDrive or a location with special characters. For the latter, path to Desktop will have OneDrive in it, for the former, check the character set.

Since the installer runs as admin, you could fallback to C:/Reloaded-II in those cases; assuming that a typical user can write to that path. That needs to be checked however.