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!