To Autosave, or Not?

[CalmDragon]

I am a fan of autosaves. Just not every single minute of the game. Instead of disabling, I edit the settings.ini file so that it saves every nine minutes like so:

• AutosaveEnabled = 1
  AutosaveInterval (in minutes) = 9
  MaxAutosaves = 5

I haven't had to increase the MaxAutosaves from the default of five, for I rarely need to go farther back than a half an hour of play time to figure something out.

[mikeyc]

Good, Calm Dragon. I wanted to know how to space the interval between saves but never got around to asking, and now its here.

[Rodea2007]

I am a fan of autosaves.

I'm not, I almost never save games when I play this game, because if map have not ctd the map should be can play until finish...

[Lowell]

I use the auto save. Test and build all my maps with it on too. I have it creating three saves, one every fifteen minutes. Many of my maps are built to where it may take a couple days to finish playing them...as several hours are needed. None crash anymore, but I still leave it on...works fine.

Plus it is a good test for a map, if a map crashes during a regular or auto save, that is a signal there is something wrong/broken inside the scenario file. I had a map that wouldn't let me back into a saved game file...later found I had something wrong inside of a Nif file for one of my game models. If the game won't save your map project...there is a reason it doesn't like something in your files...and won't save damaged or wrong files...even nif files in game models. So it is best to leave it on when editing maps, as things can get way deep during map creation and testing...anything that warns of trouble early on is a blessing.

[pherschel]

Auto save helped me out.

I setup a new route one time and set a train to haul goods. The game would crash. I reloaded and I did the same thing and it crashed again. I then reloaded again and I setup the route and I waited 10 seconds before assigning a loco. It worked! I think it was a divide by zero error at the source station.

[Greybriar]

Autosave is my friend. When the game crashes to desktop, it is the autosave game that prevents me from having to start all over again.

[karsten]

if a map crashes during a regular or auto save, that is a signal there is something wrong/broken inside the scenario file.

Amen.