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No "End of Turn" save file - 9/30/2010 6:02:07 PM

patton1950

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I hope someone that knows what is "under the hood" in this game can help me with this nagging problem....

I never, or hardly ever, get an end of turn save file after I complete a PBEM turn. I got a few early on in a couple of games, then it stopped for a long time (more than a year...). Recently, I started a "mirror" set of games in an old "ported" scenario that does not come with the game....Now, I get an end of turn save file when I complete my turn as player 1, but not when I complete my turn as player 2! Nor do I get end of turn save files in any of the several other games that I am playing....

I even uninstalled TOAW III and re-installed it, but nothing has changed.

HELP! What triggers the game to save an end of turn save file? Is there a registry key somewhere that I need to turn on? Is it scenario specific? Is there a game setting that I need to fix? Or am I just jinxed?

I have searched my hard drive, and these files are not being saved in some obscure place, as near as I can figure out; the few end of turn save files that I do get are being saved in the same folder as my other save files.

Has anyone else ever had this problem?

Thanks for any help you experts can provide!

Patton

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RE: No "End of Turn" save file - 10/1/2010 4:52:12 AM

ralphtricky

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The only thing I can see is that if your path is too long, it might cause problems. It's saved right before the pbl file. Can you try saving a poem file in something like c:\toawsaves

Ralph

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RE: No "End of Turn" save file - 10/6/2010 5:45:43 PM

patton1950

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Ralph-

That did not do it....

I've saved my last few turns to a new folder "toawsave", outside of the TOAW III game folders, to give the saves a shorter path.

That changed nothing. I still don't get end of turn save files, even when I am player 2 in the scenario where I have been getting them as player 1!!!

There has to be a way to solve this; what in the game engine triggers it to create the end of turn file? How !I go under the hood and fix what is broken in my installation (re-installing did not do it - I've tried that already).

Would appreciate any ideas

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