How to specify tmp directory for rendering I tried to make animation rendering and saw in console
Saved: 'C:\tmp\0001.png'
 Time: 00:01.15 (Saving: 00:00.31)

Saved: 'C:\tmp\0002.png'
 Time: 00:01.00 (Saving: 00:00.31)

Saved: 'C:\tmp\0003.png'
 Time: 00:01.00 (Saving: 00:00.30)

and so on.
But I have SSD on C and don't wan't to exploit it hard. How to specify different drive for saving frames during rendering?
Neither TMP or TEMP system variable work. Reasonable fields from this dialog also ignored
In the Preferences dialog you can set the default directory for new scenes.
The actually used output directory can be changed in the Output Properties: