Version 1.11.1 - Any way to load old save-games?

kodiac

Yesterday, I installed Doomsday v1.11.1 over v1.8.6 (having not played any old id games for a few years), and discovered that it no longer recognises my old save-games.
I'm running 64-bit Windows 7.

Where are save-game files stored now?
Is there any way to make Doomsday load old save-games?

Vermil

Doomsday can load save games from both the original Dos Doom and older versions of Doomsday. However, a bug means that 1.8.6 saves currently crash 1.11 with a seg fault, when it tries to load them.

Of course, 1.8.6 is ancient; it's more than 8.5 years old now. Hence it is possible Deng Team may choose to draw a line, rather than fix it (i.e fix the crash but drop support for loading save games of such age).

kodiac wrote:

Yesterday, I installed Doomsday v1.11.1 over v1.8.6

With such an old version of Doomsday, it is also not wise to try to upgrade an existing installation. One should instead do a complete re-install. That said, a re-install is always preferable to upgrading.


By default, Dday 1.8.6's Kickstart launcher stores your savegames in; 'Doomsday folder'/run/'gamename'/savegame'.

Dday 1.11's Snowberry launcher by default stores your savegames in; 'user'/My Doucments/Doomsday Frontend/runtime/savegame/'game name''.

kodiac

Thanks for the answer. Guess I'll just re-install.
No great loss on the save-games. I was looking to continue a Hexen DK game I'd started a few days ago and had only played one level in.

I wasn't seeing any "Doomsday Frontend" folder in My Documents, and I just figured out why.
I moved "My Documents" to a different drive ages ago. It seems Doomsday expects it to be on C drive even though Windows supports moving it.