How to enable auto-save.

[alexti]

Good point, Arralen. I don't remember what exactly comes out of the box with Windows. But I remember that the simplest way to convert it into functioning OS is to install cygwin. Of course, you can pick and install utils one-by-one, but I'm too lazy for that

[Hellboy]

Forgive the unix ignorant question (I've used unix as well as cygwin a few years back, but I'm more than a little rusty), but I installed cygwin, added "--postexec domsave.bat" to the Dom3 shortcut and added the 3 files out of the attachment to the dom3 directory. The result is that on turn end Dom3 loses focus, but I see no error msg of any kind. Any thoughts?

Or, if it makes life easier, anyone care to point me at a more windows friendly save utility?

Thx,

Terrel

[Gandalf Parker]

The best answers depend on what windows you are using so for the following, Im considering it to be Windows XP.

The easiest windows friendly save is
open dominions3/savedgames
Ctrl-A
Ctrl-C
Ctrl-V

You can create a shortcut to that directory so that you have an icon to click on to get there.
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The next easiest might be to make a save.bat in the dominions3 directory that has this line
xcopy /yes savedgames oldsaves /i

that will also copy all of the games to a backup
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Of course adding --preexec save.bat to your Dom3 icon will tell Dom3 to do the save thing every time it hosts any game.

[Gandalf Parker]

Hmmm I dont usually do this but try this.

See if the file I attached to this message works on your machine. Its for Windows XP, default path of dominions 3 (C:\program files\dominions3), and it uses an icon that I think is standard to WinXP. Put the file on your desktop or in your dom3 directory. Wherever you want.

Arrggghh I cant believe that I had to zip it to get it to attach. Its just a shortcut. Just one little desktop icon. It has no programs in it at all.

Edited: added a copyable link so people can pass the word.
http://www.dom3minions.com/docs/SavingSavedGames.zip

Gandalf Parker

[alexti]

Terrel said:
Forgive the unix ignorant question (I've used unix as well as cygwin a few years back, but I'm more than a little rusty), but I installed cygwin, added "--postexec domsave.bat" to the Dom3 shortcut and added the 3 files out of the attachment to the dom3 directory. The result is that on turn end Dom3 loses focus, but I see no error msg of any kind. Any thoughts?

Try to run domsave.bat from outside of the game, from dominions directory (from command prompt). You should get some sensible message explaining the problem. One likely reason is that cygwin binaries are not in the path, so OS can't find them.