Posted September 07, 2018
timppu: Seems to me my GMDX saves just somehow became corrupted or something after some point in the Naval Shipyards, or I did something that somehow broke the game scripting or something. Namely, I noticed that while all those more recent saves had also the problem that the game crashes with an error if I reload such save game while I am already playing the game (they load fine from the starting menu screen though), one a bit older save i happened to have just before entering the building which leads to the big ship didn't have that same problem.
(Also I noticed that the crash that would happen after the lower decks door (auto-save point) would happen also if I tried to go back towards the naval shipyards, when I reach a similar auto-save point. So I was kinda stuck between auto-save points.)
I started playing with that old save game, working my way through to the big ship again. I'll be closely watching that my save games don't start doing the same as before, ie. the save game crashes the game if I reload it within the game. So far so good.
All I can say is that besides just keeping recent save games, keep also some older save games around, e.g. one per mission, to which you can go back to if needed.
i think that's an issue carried over from the original Deus Ex code. in vanilla DE, i often lost hrs of gameplay because i didn't make multiples save and only used quicksave. i guess this mod didn't fix that major problem. (Also I noticed that the crash that would happen after the lower decks door (auto-save point) would happen also if I tried to go back towards the naval shipyards, when I reach a similar auto-save point. So I was kinda stuck between auto-save points.)
I started playing with that old save game, working my way through to the big ship again. I'll be closely watching that my save games don't start doing the same as before, ie. the save game crashes the game if I reload it within the game. So far so good.
All I can say is that besides just keeping recent save games, keep also some older save games around, e.g. one per mission, to which you can go back to if needed.
i don't remember the original game having hard to read savegame names. not sure what the mod or GOG version did with it.
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anyhow, is there anyway to disable all graphical mods, but keep the features of GMDX? that would be great since i'm running an older laptop. and modders never bother to test sys reqs.