Bug with autosaves

[rakantoh]

I already played until alpha labs sector 4, in each stage the game creates an autosave in the beginning of the stage, but the alpha labs have a problem, in sector 1, it creates the autosave of alpha labs sector 1, when i pass the alpha labs sector 1 and i go to the alpha labs sector 2, the game creates the autosave of the alpha labs sector 2, but the autosave of sector 1 dissapears, the autosave of sector 2 rewrite the autosave of sector 1, and the autosave of sector 3 do the same with the autosave of sector 2, and the autosave of sector 4 do the same with the autosave of sector 3. This is a bug of dhewn3.

[DanielGibson]

~~So this behaves differently with original Doom3 1.3.1? Or is it maybe normal that the game only keeps the last/latest autosave?~~

I need to to further testing, but for me it (seems to?) look different:

What operating system are you on? Which version of dhewm3 are you using?

[rakantoh]

I use windows 10 pro x64 v2004, doom 3 v1.3.1 steam version, i renamed doom3.exe to doom3.bak.exe and renamed dhewm3.exe to doom3.exe, and language in spanish. I use dhewm3 v1.5.1 rc2, the latest. Do you need my hardware specs?

[DanielGibson]

Thanks! I hope the hardware doesn't play a role; I'll try to reproduce this when I have some time, hopefully this weekend.

[rakantoh]

ok. thanks, the project is awesome!

[DanielGibson]

I just remembered one more thing: Can you tell me the whole path of the savegame directory and also its contents? Should be something like C:\Users\rakantoh\Documents\My Games\dhewm3\base\savegames\

[rakantoh]

yes, that is the path.

[DanielGibson]

So the username is exactly "rakantoh", no special characters or anything?

Can you tell me all the Alpha-Labs related file names in it (as far as I understand even with the bug there should be at least one savegame)?

[rakantoh]

yes, the username is "rakantoh", i attached the screenshot of the savegames folder.

[DanielGibson]

Thanks!

Damn, it looks like it uses the localized level names (so in your case spanish ones) for the autosaves.. that probably causes the problem. I have

.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Alpha_Labs_Sector_1.save
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Alpha_Labs_Sector_1.txt
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Alpha_Labs_Sector_2.save
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Alpha_Labs_Sector_2.txt
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Enpro_Plant.save
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Enpro_Plant.txt
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Mars_City.save
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__MARS_CITY_SOUS_SOL.save
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__MARS_CITY_SOUS_SOL.txt
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Mars_City.txt
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Mars_City_Underground.save
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Mars_City_Underground.txt
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Subterr_neo_Mars_City.save
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__Subterr_neo_Mars_City.txt
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__UAC_Administration.save
.../dhewm3/base/savegames/AutoSave__UAC_Administration.txt

I'll try to fix this when I have some time, that probably won't be straightforward.. Until then, as a workaround, you could either save manually (not rely on autosaves) or remove zpak00*.pk4 from the gamedata so the game is back to English.

[rakantoh]

yeah, i use manual saves, however i want to say you the bug for you knowledge and further fixes.

[DanielGibson]

I think I have a fix for that problem, can you test it? dhewm3-autosavefix.zip Thanks! :)

[rakantoh]

ok, i will test now.

[rakantoh]

Ok, i played the alpha labs again and the fix works! now the game created the alpha labs autosaves correctly, without replacing each them. Thanks! great job!

[DanielGibson]

Awesome, thanks a lot for testing!

[rakantoh]

Oh man you are awesome, it's true that you fixed bugs of the original game! The problem of autosaves is present in the original doom 3 without any mod, i apologize for give you additional work for this. Great job! Apart, i comment here because i dont want to open other issue, in the delta labs 2b (the first time when the player use the teleporter), when the player walks accross of ductes, the player falls in a room where a scientific is doing an autopsy to a imp, the scientific begins to talk with the player and to the end the scientific gives to the player the code for two lockers in the same room, in english, the scientific say the code normally, but in spanish, and in others languages, the code (or the sound of the scientific saying the code) is missing, isn't hear. Can you fix this issue/bug? Again, i apologize for give you additional work, but this enhance this very useful mod. Many thanks.