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Re: Daggerfall: Saving game crashes?

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From: Dimensional Traveler
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 03:01
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On 3/17/2017 7:17 PM, metal...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, November 8, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Michael L Jacobs wrote:
>> I have a problem that only happens on certain saved games.  Sometimes
>> when I try to save the game, the game crashes, and sometimes it saves
>> without crashing, but then I cannot load that saved game.  It seems
>> to stem from some corruption of a particular game since my roomate
>> and I maintain seperate save game slots and while I cannot save, he can.
>> (Although he had this problem with his first character, he suffers no
>> more)  It seems to be related to Mage guild quests as in both of our
>> cases the problem started when we saved the game after receiving a mage
>> guild quest.  I patched the game with 179 from the copy I purchased
>> this week, does anyone else have this problem?  Bugs like getting
>> stuck in walls and falling through floors I can handle, but having
>> to restart now 3 times due to inability to save the damn game is
>> making me very very pissed.
>>
>> Did Bethesda actually test this game at all???
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>            The Horrors are coming....The Invae are here
>> 	      The Truth is Out There...Trust No One
>>                     "Never ask that question!" - Ambassador Kosh
>>                Michael L Jacobs mja...@iastate.edu
>
> Bethesda games are almost always a buggy mess, they test them, but barely.
>
You're responding with that to a 21 year old post?

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Subject: Re: Daggerfall: Saving game crashes?
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