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Re: Daggerfall: Saving game crashes?

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From: metal...
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 02:17
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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.
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