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- FIXSAVE v1.70
- =============
-
- Fixsave is a utility designed to fix problems with people's save
- games. It repairs a multitude of problems that Daggerfall creates in your
- game. The most common of these are games that are unable to load due to
- invalid quest objects, invalid quest links, duplicate map ids, and invalid
- quest map ids. It will also repair various quests to allow you to continue
- in the game.
-
- NOTE: Fixsave has a few changes done to it since the 1.06.200 patch.
- Please review the documentation below to see how these changes affect
- the operation of the program.
-
- UPDATE INFORMATION FOR v1.70:
-
- Updated the program for the 1.07 patch.
-
- UPDATE INFORMATION FOR v1.65:
-
- Another method for activating the Zombie in the Soul of a Lich
- quest has been attempted. The zombie should appear within 24 hours of game
- time provided all the other conditions in the quest are met.
-
- The "Guard the Mage in a Trance" quest does not properly terminate
- when the time limit of a day expires. If this has happended, fixsave will
- terminate it for you with no penalty to your game.
-
- UPDATE INFORMATION FOR v1.64:
-
- DO NOT USE v1.63. A fix I added can cause 113 errors when dealing
- with the stores. This problem has been addressed with this version.
-
- UPDATE INFORMATION FOR v1.63:
-
- Some new repairs were added for people suffering from the duplicate
- map id bug in Daggerfall. If your game is having problems and fixsave reports
- that its done some repairs under the "Scanning your character for problems"
- header, then your game should work once again.
-
- Sometimes Daggerfall will decide to set your character's
- spell points to some absurd negative number. Fixsave will set it to 0
- when this happens. You should be able to quickly recover your remaining
- spell points after that. This does NOT work if the player's maximum hitpoints
- has been set to a negative number.
-
- UPDATE INFORMATION FOR v1.62:
-
- Another side effect of a previously found bug was found. (See
- the serious bug entry in the pre 1.05.195 fix list below). Fixsave
- now rebuilds your quest tree if it is damanged. Also, an internal map
- memory leak has been found. Daggerfall has been fixed for this in the
- 1.07.xxx patch, and fixsave will remove the stale objects. if you've noticed
- that your game has slowed down in speed for no reason, or if you've had
- to increase OBJMEMSIZE to a value larger than 2000, then this will fix
- your problem.
-
- HOW TO USE FIXSAVE:
-
- When you run fixsave, you will be provided a list of the 6 save
- games that you currently have. When you pick one, it will analyize various
- parts inside your save game and notify you when it finds something wrong
- while it repairs it. Sometimes, a quest will be found to be damaged and it
- will have to be removed. However, most of the time, your game will be
- repaired with no noticable changes.
-
- NOTE: Because fixsave backs up your game before it attempts to repair it,
- do NOT try to run the repair utility more than once on a particular game
- between gaming sesions. Running fixsave more than once will NOT improve its
- chances of being fixed. Plus, your original save game will be overwritten with
- the newly modified one. This could prevent you from being able to repair it later
- with a more enchanced version of fixsave designed to deal with your specific
- problem.
-
- WHAT FIXSAVE FIXES:
-
- In order to know when to use fixsave, a detailed list of what
- the program can repair is described below.
-
- * All versions - If you are unable to find the dungeon that contains
- the Dust of Restful Death on the Isle of Balefira, fixsave will
- activate it for you. If fixsave reports "NOT ACTIVE", it does
- not mean your game is damaged. It just means that the quest is
- not running therefore, there is nothing to activate.
-
- * Pre 1.02.177 - Quests that failed to find a particular person
- it needed would would improperly create a person to use instead.
- This caused an invalid quest link to occurr. Fixsave will remove
- those quests that have this problem.
-
- * Pre 1.03.179 - Quest monsters were not having their items properly
- tagged to the quest. When the quest terminated, any items remaining
- in the world (Like the ones picked up by the user) would become
- invalid quest objects. Thus the invalid quest object error when
- trying to load a game suffering from this problem. Fixsave will
- remove the quest information.
-
- * Pre 1.04.191 - 6 main story quests were found to illegally share 3
- locations. This would cause problems when a second quest was started
- that tried to use a location already involved in another quest. An
- invalid quest map id error would be generated. If you have a game
- saved before you do the following:
- * Give the painting to Queen Akorithi (!)
- * Give the Dust of Restful Death to Medora
- * Give the Unicorn Horn to Medora
- * Give the Jewelry to Mynisera.
- * Get sent to Shedungent by Queen Abuk-i.
-
- Running fixsave on these games will prevent the invalid quest map ID
- crash while saving from happening.
-
- (!) NOTE: You will need patch v1.04.191 or later before giving the
- painting in order to be 100% sure that this invalid map id problem
- will not happen.
-
- * Pre 1.04.191 - Sometimes the faction information for a main story
- character is deleted. This would cause nothing to happen when you
- clicked on the NPC. Fixsave will restore this information so that
- the person will talk to you again.
-
- * Pre 1.04.191 - Objects were found to sometimes not be properly
- released from a quest. The item was no longer marked for a quest,
- but still linked into the system. This would cause a wide range
- of problems. Fixsave will remove the remaining quest information
- from the objects.
-
- * Pre 1.05.195 - For people having 113 crashes after using items
- in their inventory, (which includes buying and selling of items)
- fixsave will repair those games.
-
- * Pre 1.05.195 - Some objects are found to be misreported as quests.
- This will cause both Daggerfall 1.04.191 and fixsave to crash when
- loading a save game. Daggerfall has been modified to ignore this
- problem and fixsave will return the object back to its original
- state.
-
- * Pre 1.05.195 - More problems with the invalid quest map id have
- been fixed. Stronger logic code has been added to deal with this
- problem.
-
- * Pre 1.05.195 - A change done to the "Soul of a Lich" quest, caused
- the game to crash in a special instance when you killed the lich.
- Fixsave will allow you to kill the lich and continue the game.
-
- * Pre 1.05.195 - Fixsave will allow people who turned down the
- painting quest in the game to take the quest after all. This will
- allow them to finish the game.
-
- * Pre 1.05.195 - A serious bug was located in the game that would
- cause your items to disspear from the inventory screen. This would
- also cause the inventory screen to crash when you tried to view
- a group of items. (Like the ones on your cart.). 1.05.195 will
- no longer create this problem, but you must run fixsave to repair
- the game if it suffers from this. Because this is a complicated
- repair, it may not succeed at reconstructing your map file
- properly.
-
- * Pre 1.05.195 - A quest was found to be creating an invalid sprite
- index for an NPC. So if you've been crashing with an error 520
- while trying to enter a house for a quest, and fixsave says its
- fixed an invalid sprite index, then you will be able to continue
- in your quest.
-
- * Pre 1.05.195 - The problems with people having wild variations
- in their level advancement has been located. If fixsave sees that
- you've lost your starting skill sum, it will repair it with a
- precalculated average sum. Since it is not the sum you stared with,
- the level you return to may not be the one you had before the
- problem started.
-
- * Pre 1.05.195 - For people who are getting map id errors after leaving
- the starter dungeon, fixsave will repair your game so you can
- continue your journey.
-
- * Pre 1.06.200 - Another fix in the v1.05.195 version of the
- "Soul of a Lich" quest activates the mummy to be sent after you.
-
- * Pre 1.06.200 - Some people have reported losing their scarab
- in the Soul of a Lich quest. If you've lost it, and have another
- scarab in your possesion, this will attach the quest to that
- item instead so you can complete the quest.
-
- * Post 1.06.200 - Another side effect of the serious bug found prior
- to the 1.05.195 patch has been fixed. If you've lost all your quests
- or the game crashes when you try to load it up, then this will fix
- your problem.
-
- * Post 1.06.200 - An internal map memory leak was found in the game.
- While the 1.07 patch will fix this problem, fixsave will remove
- the stale objects from your game. If the game is running much
- slower than it originally did, or if you've had to increase
- OBJMEMSIZE to a value larger than 2000 and you don't have many
- items, then this should fix your problem.
-
- * Post 1.06.200 - Due to a variety of other bugs in the game, some
- data objects associated with your character are being deleted. Fixsave
- now replaces them when they are missing. This will help you load
- your game or prevent it from crashing when you're in your inventory
- screen.
-
- * Post 1.06.200 - If your character has negative spell points, fixsave
- will set it to 0. This does not work if your max spell points has
- been set to a negative number.
-
- * Post 1.06.200 - Another method of activating the zombie in the
- Soul of a Lich quest has been implemented.
-
- * Post 1.06.200 - A fix for the "Guard the Mage in a Trace" quest
- was put in when it didn't terminate after the time limit expired.
-
- WHAT FIXSAVE DOES NOT FIX:
-
- If both Daggerfall and fixsave crash while trying to load a game,
- then your game is corrupted beyond repair. Usually this happens with the
- invalid quest map id error prior to the 1.04.191 patch. Or any other time
- the game crashes while saving. Another sign that your game has been lost
- is when you get the error "You fall to the ground completely exhausted..."
- etc. after loading a game. This game is missing the file savetree.dat and
- no longer contains any map information associated with your character. This
- cannot be repaired as all of your character information is missing.
-
- If fixsave does start its repair process and then has problems, then
- there is something I can do to help you. If your game is giving you problems
- and you used the repairs objects item maker advantage before the 1.03.179
- patch update, then fixsave will not be able to help you either. There is too
- much damage to be repaired. Fixsave is not able to deal with the case
- of a main story quest being corrupted either as it can not remove that from
- your game.
-
- CONTACT INFORMATION:
-
- If for some reason fixsave does not work as described above,
- feel free to contact me, Hal Bouma, at hal@bethsoft.com and I'll see what
- I can do to help you get your game back up and running. If you do not have
- email access, contact technical support and they'll forward your message
- on to me.
-
- VERSION HISTORY:
-
- 1.70 - Version updated to operate with the 1.07 patch.
-
- 1.65 - The Zombie fix was updated for the 200 patch. A fix for N2 was
- added so that the quest was deleted when the time expired.
-
- 1.64 - A internal corruption bug was fixed.
-
- 1.63 - Fixsave now replaces lost data objects associated with your
- character when they are missing in your character. Fixsave also
- sets character's with negative spell points to 0.
-
- 1.62 - Another side effect of the duplicate map identifiers was found
- and fixed. A map memory leak was found in the game and a
- removal process of these stale objects was added to fixsave.
-
- 1.61 - An option for people to quit or continue when fixsave is unable
- to backup your save game. I will hopefully write a better routine
- in the future where the backup feature will work for everyone.
-
- 1.60 - A fix for people who have lost their scarabs in the Soul of
- a Lich quest.
-
- 1.52 - The backup savegame routine has been improved. If it didn't
- work for you before, it should work now.
-
- 1.51 - A problem with the v1.05.195 "Soul of a Lich" quest has been
- found where the zombie is not properly activated. Fixsave
- repairs that quest for you now.
-
- 1.50 - Duplicate map identifers problem fixed. This would cause
- items in your inventory to dissapear and your character
- sheet to crash at odd times. An invalid sprite check for
- a quest was added. A fix for people who have level problems.
- The invalid map id when leaving the starter dungeon has
- been fixed as well.
-
- 1.44 - Two main story quests have been addressed by fixsave. The
- "Soul of a Lich" crash when you kill the lich and the ability
- to change your mind about accepting the painting quest.
-
- 1.43 - A game backup system has been added. More problems with the
- invalid quest map id error has been fixed.
-
- 1.42 - Fixes problems with equipment causing 113 crashes and catches
- one problem with corrupted objects.
-
- 1.41 - First major release included with the Daggerfall patch program.
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