Daggerfall talk:Corrupted Savegames

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Since I read some comments regarding DOS32A on the Bethesda-Forum, posted by StoneFrog and others, I want to point out why I have created this article.

1. Daggerfall was and is designed for a DOS environment, therefore running the game under anything but a hundred per cent compatible DOS-System is nothing but bare nonsense. Even in case one doesn't consider the missing quest objects caused by memory issues on an incompatible OS, not even the movement-controls will work correctly.
2. I would be rather surprised in case nobody else ever encountered corrupted savegames. Certainly one will not encounter them at lower levels, and not until you have proceeded a bit with the Main Quest. But the higher your character's level is and the more items you have in your inventory, cart, house or ship the more susceptible the savegames will behave. Such savegames crash to DOS with evidents of memory corruption and DOSBox is not to blame. I tried those savegames on a hundred per cent MS-DOS 6.22 machine and got the same errors. These corruptions even prevented my character from proceeding with the Main Quest when I played the game for the very first time. I really was pissed off because I had a very impressive collection of various armors, weapons and artifacts. After some time I started a new game, but I got stuck at exactly the same point in the Main Quest, where you must help Medora find the Unicorn horn. Again I was very pissed off because the situation was exactly as it has been before. I didn't touch the game for a very long time. Until I was tuning my installed version of DOSBox. I read about the DOS32A Memory-Extender and thought, why not give it a try. And behold, the game proceeded without problems when I used the program. If I hadn't given it a try, I probably wouldn't have touched Daggerfall ever again. And certain savegames I have with particularly advanced characters won't even run without DOS32A. Considering characters where I used DOS32A from the beginning I don't have such problems even at higher levels and even with a museum full of of various armors, weapons and artifacts.--PLRDLF 18:58, 14 February 2009 (EST)