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Gateway to the Savage Frontier - Save path problem

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First post, by Brobearaz

Posted on 2006-10-08, 08:12

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Howdy all,
I've run into a problem with the save path while setting up Gateway to the Savage Frontier. The problem is occuring with all of the sequals as well. I put DosBox on my new computer and installed the game. During the set-up when i launched the game the first time, I was asked for the save path. I put in the path as c:\ad3wiz\gateway\save. This is where the save folder is located both in the actual location and the 'mount' location.

Everything went fine until I tried to save a new character. I got the message "unexpected memory error 3" and the character would not save. I tried launching the sequal games to see if I could save a new character or load one of the pre-made ones but got errors there as well.

Any suggestions?

Thanks a bunch.

Reply 1 of 3, by Hazekel

Posted on 2006-10-09, 15:21

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When you "mount" a drive DOSBOX thinks of that directory as c:\, so if it is trying to find a subdirectory, it sometimes gets confused. As a test, to see if this is the problem. Manually start DOSBOX and "Mount c c:\" and then run the game. If the save game works this time around then the problem is in how you are mounting the game.

Reply 2 of 3, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2006-10-09, 17:08

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I think that might not be the problem. I am pretty sure some old SSI games suffered from a bug in which paths with ending backslashes in the configuration file produced some really nasty behaviour.

Brobearaz:

Check to see if the configuration file for the game (probably some .ini or .cfg) is a text file and can be opened and editted using EDIT (best bet = ASCII charset) or Notepad (not so good = ANSI charset).

Make a backup copy of the configuration file and see if there are some backslashes or not in the paths for the game. Try reverting them.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Brobearaz

Posted on 2006-10-19, 16:47

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Thanks for the help all. I found the problem was that I was mounting c drive all the way into the game folder, so when I was indicating the save path, I didn't need the \ad3wiz\gateway part. Just the \save. All working fine now. Thanks again.

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