Saves not working in Duke 2

Bonevelous · Post by **Bonevelous** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 13:56

Oh, it allows me to save. But as soon as I quit the game, ALL of the saves are deleted, and the settings are set to the defaults. Any advice?

kuliwil · Post by **kuliwil** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 14:29

What are you running the game in?

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 15:06

Check if any of the files are somehow set to read-only.

Bonevelous · Post by **Bonevelous** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 17:46

kuliwil wrote:What are you running the game in?

Dosbox. I think that fact causes the game to lag from sprite overload unless you destroy every destroyable sprite you see, and it may have even caused that crash that I experienced that made me have to start episode 2 all over.

DaVince wrote:Check if any of the files are somehow set to read-only.

Nope.

Good idea though, thanks.

K1n9_Duk3 · Post by **K1n9_Duk3** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 21:03

I've had a similar problem with Duke 2 some time ago. I got to the boss of episode 4 on hard difficulty, saved and then used [CTRL]+[F9] to shut DOSBox down. When I started the game again, my savegame was gone. So it might be that you didn't exit the game properly (or just clicked the "X" to close it) and that "deleted" your files. Try saving a game and then quitting Duke 2 the normal way to get back to the DOSBox prompt. Then type "exit" to exit DOSBox. If the samegame still isn't there when you start Duke 2 the next time, there might be another problem.