Autosave doesnt work anymore

**Desley** · July 27, 2009, 01:28 PM

I think i have turned it off accidently.. how can i get it to work again !??!

please tell me , because my game crashes sometimes and i forget to save alot

**Desley** · July 27, 2009, 05:03 PM

any1? im playing the vanilla game

**Nazgûl Killer** · July 27, 2009, 06:40 PM

To be honest, I have yet to encounter a problem with the autosave...
So, I ask - What version of the game are you playing? (Latest or not?) - If it is latest, I suggest you head over to the tech support subforum for M2TW, I am sure they can help you there.
If it isn't the latest, update it. If that doesn't work, follow the above.

**axnsan** · July 28, 2009, 01:26 AM

Most probably some cfg line. Search the cfg to see if you don't have an autosave = 0 line or something like that

**Viking Prince** · July 28, 2009, 01:54 AM

Some mods when uploaded will turn off the auto save in the cfg file. I think that LTC Gold is one of them. This is to fix potential CTD's in using the mod. Just learn to get in the habit of saving every ten or twenty turns. It is not a bad practice even with the autosave (corruption can happen even to the autosaved file).

**zzzms** · July 28, 2009, 05:49 AM

The problem lies in the medieval2.preference.cfg file (found in your Med2 folder), open it with notepad, look for the heading [game], five lines down you should see:

auto_save = 0

change the 0 (zero) to a 1, this will switch autosave on.

However, as Viking Prince says, some mods turn it off to avoid CTD's.

ALSO, rememeber to make a back up before you edit!

**irishron** · July 28, 2009, 02:51 PM

Also make it read-only so the game can't rewrite it.

**zzzms** · July 29, 2009, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by irishron

Also make it read-only so the game can't rewrite it.

I'm sorry, but, this makes no sense to me! Surely, the game needs to write and rewrite the Autosave file, making it read-only would prevent this, and, thereby stop Autosave from working.

**PoleCat** · July 29, 2009, 06:25 AM

Originally Posted by zzzms

I'm sorry, but, this makes no sense to me! Surely, the game needs to write and rewrite the Autosave file, making it read-only would prevent this, and, thereby stop Autosave from working.

You're correct in thinking that the autosave needs write privilege but we're talking about the config file here. This file is essentially just a list of instructions that the program uses to run the game. Sometimes the config file can be modified by the parent program - by turning it to read-only you prevent it from being changed and can then control the debug process.

**sgz** · June 04, 2014, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by zzzms

The problem lies in the medieval2.preference.cfg file (found in your Med2 folder), open it with notepad, look for the heading [game], five lines down you should see:

auto_save = 0

change the 0 (zero) to a 1, this will switch autosave on.

However, as Viking Prince says, some mods turn it off to avoid CTD's.

ALSO, rememeber to make a back up before you edit!

Thanks for the tip. !