QUICKSAVE DOESN'T WORK?

[buck28]

I can save a mission as I play, but not with quicksave? I have to do it the long way. Do you have to put something in your pk4 pkg to get quicksave to work?

Or is it a function that doesn't work at all?

[jaxa]

Check your hotkeys?

[buck28]

@jaxa

 

It should be F5, but when I hit it nothing happens. I then look in the console. It says something like the save feature not available; or something to that effect.

[SteveL]

It definitely works. Default mapping is f5 as usual. It should be in your hotkey options accessible through the menu, but also in darkmod.cfg I think, if you don't get any joy on the menu.

[buck28]

@SteveL

 

Okay; that's what I thought. I just don't get why it works for the other games(missions); but not this one?

[SteveL]

Hmm. Just double checking, you're using a standard 2.02 release? Obs put the capability to disable saving into 2.03 but that code hasn't been released yet, so you'd only fall foul of that if you've built your own copy from the code in svn. Another thing you could check is that your darkmod folder and the savegames folder in it are not set to read-only in Windows explorer.

[SteveL]

Ah, check the save games folder for that specific mission then. It might be read only. Right click in Windows explorer and choose properties.

[buck28]

No; I'm using the standard 2.02. I'll check the other, but I wouldn't know how all of a sudden it would be set to something else?

[buck28]

Is it supposed to be read only?

[SteveL]

It shouldn't be read-only. Clear the "read only" checkbox for your entire darkmod folder if it's not clear already.

 

I have had problems in the past with folders apparently spontaneously becoming read-only. That messes up the tdm updater. I don't know how it happened in my case. I certainly never did it manually.

[buck28]

Ok I'll look at that also.

Thanks again...