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The title says it all I'm doing a test with my game and I need to know how to set it up where my game loads low-level drivers from a System32 Folder that is in another path instead of this
example: C:\Windows\System32
a new path I want to have my game load drivers from: D:\Windows\System32
and can I make my game load low-level drivers from this path with some c++ coding in visual studio?
Usually games load their .dlls from several places, including their own folder. I recommend putting anything you need loaded in the folder along with the game.
Requiring a D:\Windows\System32 would be not be a good idea because not everybody has a D: drive.
I would advise against doing what you're trying to do, simply because you'll waste a lot of time.
Microsoft released drivers are released by, well... Microsoft. They integrate with the OS they produce. In ways that you do not want to mess with or work around: you'll most likely miss a reference: You'll set up Driver A that usually relies on Driver file X. If you forget to put that Driver file X at the correct location (because it's not documented, or you don't even know it exists), it will use the system one and have your tests fail, or it could simply crash.
Instead, I suggest you set up a workstation just for that, to test the "other set of drivers". The process is much more straight forward, is much more documented (hey you can do a system backup right after you set it up and restore it when you have more tests!), much less error prone, and will end up having you wasting much less time.
