OK, I have a newbie question that is bugging me. How do you turn off the auto save feature in the game? I can't seem to find it in the options menu.

Thanks!

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Go to My Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Colonization and edit CivilizationIV.ini to set AutoSaveInterval = 0

Go to My Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Colonization and edit CivilizationIV.ini to set AutoSaveInterval = 0

OK, I tried doing this by setting my auto save as 0 but whenever I start a new game, the auto save function still appears! What is the cause of this?

I tried saving the file with notepad but whenever I start a new game and go back to the auto save, it reverts back to 5! How should I go about saving this?

Thanks! I tried this for hours but it still did not work!

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Anyone facing the same weird problem? Apparently, notepad saves my changes but when I start a new game, the autosave function still appears. Then I go back into the file and the function reverts back to the old one, not saving my changes to the autosave!

How do I turn this off?

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Go to My Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Colonization and edit CivilizationIV.ini to set AutoSaveInterval = 0

OK, I finally found the cause of my problem. Apparently, the file to be changed is the Civilization IV configuration setting file; NOT the BAK file which is Civilization IV.ini!

The incorrect statement you gave me troubled me greatly, mate!

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That's certainly strange, it works fine on my system. I went back and tested it again. The file I edited was the Configuration settings file 'CivilizationIV.ini' and the original code was:

; Specify the number of turns between autoSaves. 0 means no autosave.
AutoSaveInterval = 4

I changed it to 0, resulting in no autosaves as advertised. It remained at zero after playing a game, and it is still at zero after restarting my PC.

You mention the BAK file. Is this 'CivilizationIV.ini.bak' and is this the file you changed?

That's certainly strange, it works fine on my system. I went back and tested it again. The file I edited was the Configuration settings file 'CivilizationIV.ini' and the original code was:

; Specify the number of turns between autoSaves. 0 means no autosave.
AutoSaveInterval = 4

I changed it to 0, resulting in no autosaves as advertised. It remained at zero after playing a game, and it is still at zero after restarting my PC.

You mention the BAK file. Is this 'CivilizationIV.ini.bak' and is this the file you changed?

I was actually changing the BAK file, which is incorrect.The file that should be changed is the configuration file.

Nevertheless, I managed to correct this.

Cheers!

:D

Or another method to disable autosave is to press Shift + Control + A!

I hope this is helpful to our readers here!

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