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noautosaves in preferences

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Wich line should i add in the game to make appear the "noautosaves" option in the preferences => advanced menu ?
So that I can enable or disable it permanently before starting the game ?
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Re: noautosaves in preferences

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Yomar wrote:Wich line should i ad in the game to make appear the "noautosaves" option in the preferences => advanced menu ?
So that I can enable or disable it permanently before starting the game ?
I don't think there is any such line. That's a feature that hasn't been added yet.
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Try auto_save_max= line, 0 for value.
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Try auto_save_max= line, 0 for value.
Ty, but where ?
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Preferences, for versions 1.8.6 and 1.10.3 and 1.11.0 it is line 7, not sure about other versions.
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Ravana wrote:Preferences, for versions 1.8.6 and 1.10.3 and 1.11.0 it is line 7, not sure about other versions.
Hmm, interesting. I haven't tried this, but I assume you're referring to {userdata}/preferences (no extension).
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Disabling autosaves is not recommended.
Consider if you got disconnected in multiplayer, there would be no way to reload.
Or if you experienced a mysterious crash in singleplayer, there would be no way to file a proper bug report.

It would be better to figure out why you think you need to disable autosaves (e.g. are they taking too long?) and then address that problem instead.
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Autosaves slow down the game, especially in rpg, and I always have a mess on my hd, and disabling them could be usefull when I play alone against AI, or campaigns, I prefer always to save manually, knowing in this way where I was at a certain point, and I also don't like to cheat, but with autosaves the temptation is bigger.
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