unless the game can update itself somehow via the user's documents, which is NOT where program files etc should be stored ;] But I can just imagine it happenning...
That was what I've been fearing if I ever upgraded (well, I will have too sooner or later anyway once game devs drop XP/2K support because they're stupid)....
More-so when some games these days pack all the game resources into a large single file, and given what I've been fearing, there'ss no way to update that without either dumping said large file into yer documents folder and patching it there, or have the game read a script in yer documents folder that redirects file-paths from the old-files that are packed, to the updated ones in documents folder...
Regarding Vista though, how's the uninstall thinger? I been hating games lately that leave folders undeleted and registry entries left alive after uninstallation. Was hoping with Vista that essentially everything would be deleted regarding the program, with a user-option to clear saved stuff in the Documents folder as well.