too many saves can cause issues

Voukras had 465 saves and making a new hardsave caused an older one to be overwritten (maybe specifically a save of the same map?).

We should:

[ ] have a warning when starting a new game about having too many saves, offering to delete old saves
[ ] an in-game button to delete old saves, and even all saves?
[ ] the installer could maybe have an option to backup old saves into a folder or zip file, similar to keeping dated backups of configs
[ ] we could maybe fix MenuScreenSaveGame::PerformSave()


function PerformSave()
{
    local DeusExRootWindow localRoot;
    local DeusExPlayer localPlayer;
    local int gameIndex;
    local String saveName;

    // Get the save index if this is an existing savegame
    gameIndex = int(lstGames.GetFieldValue(saveRowID, 4));

    // If gameIndex is -2, this is our New Save Game and we 
    // need to set gameIndex to 0, which is not a valid
    // gameIndex, in which case the DeusExGameEngine::SaveGame()
    // code will be kind and get us a new GameIndex (Really!
    // If you don't believe me, go look at the code!)

    if (gameIndex == -2)
        gameIndex = 0;

    saveName = editName.GetText();

    localPlayer   = player;
    localRoot     = root;

    localRoot.ClearWindowStack();
    localPlayer.SaveGame(gameIndex, saveName);
    localRoot.Show();
}

it uses save slot 0 to ask the game engine for an unused slot, but I think we could just search all the saves and find a slot ourselves in UnrealScript. For an example of looping through all saves see DXRVanilla\DeusEx\Classes\Player.uc::LoadLatestConfirmed()

Die4Ever / deus-ex-randomizer

too many saves can cause issues #891