Retrieving an auto save

[Merkinball]

How do I do it? BTS is crashing on me all the time. How do I play an autosave?

 

[JujuLautre]

autosaves are in your save folder (if you play single player, in the folder single/auto, or something like that); just load them into the game.

 

[Merkinball]

thanks

ten characters

 

[KMadCandy]

i hope that it doesn't keep crashing on you! in case you don't already know, the default auto-save is not set to every turn. i think it's set to every 4 turns, but if you crash frequently every turn is probably better for your case. you can't change that setting in game, you have to go to the .ini file. there's a line like this:

; Specify the number of turns between autoSaves. 0 means no autosave.
AutoSaveInterval = 1

 

[prophet665]

I keep getting a crash to desktop after loading a game wgile in the middle of a game. It doesn't matter if it is an autosave or a standard save.

Crash to desktop every time.

I have Beyond The Sword version 3.00. I plan on updating to 3.03 tonight.

 

[KMadCandy]

just a caution about 3.03 ... from what i hear, it doesn't make any gameplay changes, it was just supposed to fix some stuff (maybe with graphics drivers or sounds drivers, i'm not sure). anyway, it ADDED new bugs. people that were fine with 3.02 are having trouble with 3.03, animation bugs, etc.

you can't uninstall 3.03 to go back to 3.02 unless you uninstall BtS completely. so you might want to try 3.02 first. you can find it on the firaxis website even tho CFC (at least when i looked) had only the 3.03 patch.

when i bought it, i patched to 3.02, not 3.03 even though it was out already, and i've had no problems. but i've seen posts from a bunch of people asking "how do i roll back to 3.02?" in any case, i hope that your troubles get fixed!

 

[prophet665]

just a caution about 3.03 ...

you can't uninstall 3.03 to go back to 3.02 unless you uninstall BtS completely. so you might want to try 3.02 first. you can find it on the firaxis website even tho CFC (at least when i looked) had only the 3.03 patch.

Oky doky...so 3.02 it is...at least for now. It seems they may have rushed this expansion pack out the door a little early. These bugs are not arcane nor difficult to reproduce.

 

[prophet665]

Ok. Updated to 3.02 and was able to load ONCE from a standard saved game from a game that has already started.

The second time I tried it, CTD.

Here is the MS error message:

AppName: civ4beyondsword.exe AppVer: 3.0.2.94 ModName: cvgamecoredll.dll
ModVer: 1.0.0.1 Offset: 0018d130

Hopefully, this is an easy fix. Once again...no mods installed and this was a standard game.

**SIGH**