Autosave not working

[InnocentIII]

I started my first 1.02 game as the USA Hard/Normal 1936. In the game start selection screen I set options from autosave "Off" to "Monthly". After a while I noticed that I was not autosaving. I changed it to every three months, then back to monthly, then back etc, and I never once autosaved. My autosave was my old 1.01 UK game (which when I loaded I became the USA in that game - so that's how you do that!).

I played for some ten hours (with breaks), and had zero CTDs (yeah!), but it never autosaved from 1936 to IIRC early 1942 (maybe late 1941).

 

[Vulture]

???? My autosaves work just fine

 

[InnocentIII]

Originally posted by VultureGFF
???? My autosaves work just fine

I'll see if I can reproduce it, but I had zero autosaves the whole time I played, and it was one 1/mo 90% of the thime and 1/3mo the rest of the time.

 

[Castellon]

If it does happen agian try installing and then reinstall and patch right to 1.02. Should clear things up.

 

[State Machine]

Autosave is bugged (from EU) where the first "scheduled save" is delayed one unit of time (a month IIRC). This also includes changing the save frequency. That is, your change to the save frequency will not take place until the next "scheduled save".

Could you have run into this? A known bug, of course, if that's what is happening.

 

[InnocentIII]

Originally posted by State Machine
Autosave is bugged (from EU) where the first "scheduled save" is delayed one unit of time (a month IIRC). This also includes changing the save frequency. That is, your change to the save frequency will not take place until the next "scheduled save".

Could you have run into this? A known bug, of course, if that's what is happening.

No, no.

I am familiar with the EU2 situation and expected that. We're talking years and years of playing, and even carrying over when I restarted after saving IIRC (I started Saturday morning, never turned off the comp, and was still playing after midnight with a few breaks).

I have been playing as the USSR and autosave has been working just fine.

I have a theory I'd ask someone to check out if you are doing a new install for other reasons anyway. I'll try to do it myself, but I make no promises

I think that the first game after the 1.02 patch might be screwed up if the autosave preference from the 1.01 install was already set to monthly. It's sort of similar to the other problem - the first attempt to use autosave fails, but for game rather than month/year.

So, if you reinstall the game for other reasons, please upgrade to 1.01, start a game and set the autosave to monthly and let it run a bit. Then upgrade to 1.02, and start up a game (heck, pick USA Normal/Normal to recreate my circumstances), try to set autosave to one month if it's not there already, and see if autosave is not possible for the duration of that game.

It definately happened and it was not the usual 'skip one and then all is well' that I know from EU2. It never autosaved over hours and hours of play (zero CTDs, in fact, zero CTDs during play of HOI)). I restarted a 1.01 savegame (hey, maybe that's what fixed it? FWIW I CTDed when I tried to save that game), just to verify that <autosave> was my old 1.01 save, and it was.