Saved Games Error question

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Damien

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I didn't put this in the Bug Reporting forum because I know Armagan already knows about it. But in concerns to the bug where a saved game gets ruined for no apparent reason and the computer restarts when you try to open it ... has Armagan actually commented on this yet?

I looked around the Bug Reporting forum, but I didn't see anything. Just curious if anyone has seen him make a comment. I was hoping this problem would have been fixed by now.. because, to be honest, I'm incredibly sick of losing my saved games. It's gotten to the point where I -have- to use cheat codes, simply because I'm so tired of playing a first level character.
 
I had a lot of problems with savegame corruption when 0.700 came out (I had none in 0.632), but it hasn't been bothering me in the latest versions.

Are you sure you have 0.703? If so, too bad, can't help ya. :S

Edit: I didn't have one in 0.632, I had none in 0.632.
 
Hi Damien,

Sorry to hear about your problems. I really don't know the source of this. Theoretically, savegames are extremely robust in version 0.70x now. When saving a new game, M&B
1) first creates a temporary file and writes the game data into it
2) If that has succeeded, it removes the last backup file and renames the old savegame as "last_savegame_backup.sav"
3) Renames the temporary file as the new savegame file.

I can't really think of a way to make it any more robust than that.

Anyway, if you have a corrupted savegame again, please send me the corrupted savegame and last_savegame_backup.sav . I may understand what the problem is by looking at those.
 
oKiN: Yeah, it's weird... I've had the problem since .632 (the first version I was ever aware of). My girlfriend and I both play the game with some regularity, and we've probably lost a total of 15 savegame files since I upgraded to .700.



Armagan: Thanks for responding. (I do love involved designers)

My girlfriend already deleted her corrupted savegame, but mine just stopped working this morning and I haven't deleted it yet. Is it the file in the 'Savegames' folder, or is it a file in 'Savegames/Native?" And how do I send it to you? I'm not really good with computers.. heh.

The Savegames folder has a file called "old_game.swg" and the Savegames/Native folder has two files -- "last_savegame_backup.sav" and "sg00.sav"


As soon as I figure out which one to send, I'll e-Mail it to you (unless there's some other way to send it over that I'm not aware of).
 
Well, i wonder, would it be possible that when you save a file for the first time, it creates a new directory under the saved games folder specific to that character. Then, every time you save it simply creates a new file under that directory, and leaves the old file intact. So that if one save became corrupted, you could revert back to a previous save and just delete the new one? Maybe even add an ingame option for the number of old saves you want it to keep.
 
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