It can cope with most forms of crashes without data loss, but power loss is another story entirely. But, as explained in my previous post, it cannot do that when the power is suddenly shut off. The game has it's own methods of verifying file integrity each write.
Take a look at Valheim even It's not even fully voxel based yet it's autosave at 20m intervals causes even the best computers to freeze up for a few seconds because it's commiting a huge load to ram/cpu/disk all at once. Minecraft saves the same way- Most voxel games do, actually, since it's such a huge amount of data to write spread over hundreds or sometimes thousands of files. They absolutely notice gb of data being written. With so many files and so much size involved, Saving infrequently means a huge overhead at each save- Noone notices kb of data being written. If it's as pronounced as you say, that's a huge design flaw imo and needs to be patched asap to lessen that grip.It's pretty much a limitation of file size and file count. :)I don't immediately believe that the game would autosave to that degree- that's pointless considering that, should any anomaly present itself and the game ceases to respond during an ever-so-present autosave, a constant autosave would be worse than no autosave, bricking your save completely instead of just losing the session's progress (not to mention the constant disk usage). before each play session at the minimum.Or getting an unterruptible power supply so that you don't suddenly lose power without being able to log out and close your computer down safely since this is pretty much the exact use case for it.
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But, In the mean time, I'd strongly recommend making manual backups. I'm sure a backup system will be properly implemented eventually. Interrupting the save causes save fragmentation/corruption As now only a part of the changes are written to disk when it needs all of them to have a functioning save. That very nature is exactly why a sudden power outage will shatter the save file- There's a reason every game under the sun warns you not to power off the system or close the game while the save icon is present on the screen. Originally posted by Niknokinater: Originally posted by Shurenai: The game is constantly saving to disk as you play every step you take, every block you damage or break, every item you pick up, every minute that passes by. Gamers don't typically mind if they lose kb or a couple mb of space to auto saves- But when you're talking multiple gigs, it's a different story And that's before discussing the impact on performance as the game backs up such a huge amount of data It would likely require interrupting play entirely for several seconds each auto-save. A big problem there though is that unlike most other games where save files are measured in 50-100kb, or maybe 5-25mb at most, values that can be, practically speaking, instantly saved with little impact on performance, 7dtd saves start at 250+mb and grow from there to in excess of 1gb and more depending on how long you continue playing the same save.
What it lacks is a working backup system. So, what we don't need is auto-save It already autosaves, constantly. The game is constantly saving to disk as you play every step you take, every block you damage or break, every item you pick up, every minute that passes by.
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