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Author Topic: Game crashed and didn't revert to a seasonal autosave?!  (Read 958 times)

Emerald Salamander

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Game crashed and didn't revert to a seasonal autosave?!
« on: April 14, 2013, 04:20:28 am »
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My game just crashed, and it didn't really tell me why. I quickly reopened DF and went back to my fortress....It had set me back to almost the start of the fortress (13 dwarves). In the time I was playing I had gotten over 100 dwarves, and more then a few years. I thought DF had a seasonal auto-save in-case of this happening? I am now back to the start and am pretty angry about this.
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Re: Game crashed and didn't revert to a seasonal autosave?!
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2013, 04:21:16 am »
Only if you enable it. Sounds like you havent.
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Re: Game crashed and didn't revert to a seasonal autosave?!
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2013, 05:38:37 am »
Well, I thought I did...
Where are you suppose to enable it?
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Re: Game crashed and didn't revert to a seasonal autosave?!
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2013, 05:57:14 am »
in the init files. Think it is d_init. If not, then the standard init file.
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Re: Game crashed and didn't revert to a seasonal autosave?!
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2013, 08:31:49 am »
If it is enabled you have to load the file that says. Fort 15 summer or something similar to that. It doesn't overwrite the original file. At least not for me.
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Re: Game crashed and didn't revert to a seasonal autosave?!
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2013, 09:35:41 am »
You can usually tell if it's active, because your game hangs for a couple minutes/seconds (depending on your CPU power) before announcing a season change.
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Re: Game crashed and didn't revert to a seasonal autosave?!
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2013, 07:14:03 pm »
Quote from: HavingPhun on April 14, 2013, 08:31:49 am
If it is enabled you have to load the file that says. Fort 15 summer or something similar to that. It doesn't overwrite the original file. At least not for me.

It should. Are you playing from a zipped game?
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Re: Game crashed and didn't revert to a seasonal autosave?!
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2013, 12:44:13 pm »
Quote from: HavingPhun on April 14, 2013, 08:31:49 am
If it is enabled you have to load the file that says. Fort 15 summer or something similar to that. It doesn't overwrite the original file. At least not for me.
This happens if you have autobackup turned on as well. If you just have autosave on then it will just overwrite the previous save.
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Re: Game crashed and didn't revert to a seasonal autosave?!
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2013, 02:03:13 pm »
Quote from: i2amroy on April 15, 2013, 12:44:13 pm
Quote from: HavingPhun on April 14, 2013, 08:31:49 am
If it is enabled you have to load the file that says. Fort 15 summer or something similar to that. It doesn't overwrite the original file. At least not for me.
This happens if you have autobackup turned on as well. If you just have autosave on then it will just overwrite the previous save.
I must have had auto backup on. Every season it would save but it would never overwrite another save file.
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