If you get a fake antivirus alert, you can:
- Disable the antivirus; install Unofficial Patch 1.6; add EE2.exe and EE2X.exe to exceptions, so it won't get detected; enable antivirus. There are many antivirus programs, so it's hard to explain how to add exceptions for each of them, but you can find tutorials on Google.
For now I have received a report that Norton SONAR detects UP1.6 as malicious. This link might help you with this problem (Click)
Please remember that if you don't trust in Unofficial Version 1.6 - you don't need to use it - simply do not install/remove the patch. It's not my fault that Antivirus softwares detect all new programs as dangerous, just to make customers think they're "so good at detection".
Since Unofficial Patch 1.6 version 160024 (July 2025) you can change the default Documents or AppData folder location that EE2 uses.
By default, the game stores game saves, screenshots, playbacks and many other files in your default Documents folder, this is: C:\Users\Username\Documents. The game settings, game users and font cache files are stored in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming.
Some players experience the on-launch error "FATAL PROBLEM: Can't open main game directory." when the OneDrive backup of Documents folder is enabled on Windows, or when the game process is unable to access it.
In modern versions of Unofficial Patch 1.6, it's possible to easily change the default folder location:
Note: In case of problems launching the game, you only need to change the "CustomDocumentsFolder" location.The Launcher also supports the "Special" folder locations. You can use: {CSIDL_APPDATA}, {CSIDL_PROFILE}, {CSIDL_WINDOWS}, {CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS}, {CSIDL_EE2FOLDER}.
For example, if you type:
CustomDocumentsFolder={CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS}\EE2_DifferentMod
Then the game will use a new subfolder in your Documents folder (C:\Users\Username\Documents\EE2_DifferentMod) depending on a mod that you're currently using. This might help avoid crashes or invalid game saves when using multiple mods.
With the same logic, setting CustomAppDataFolder={CSIDL_EE2FOLDER}\EE2_AppData would use a subfolder for AppData in your EE2 installation directory (but this is not recommended as it usually requires to run the game as administrator).