I came across a problem today in beta11 where my save files were not being updated. I created a character and played for a while, saving the game several times. I encountered a graphical glitch which replaced all of the images with white boxes, which I will report on later, if I see it again. I quit and reloaded, and found that I had been returned to the first save game I had made with this character. One thing I noticed was that the description of the save game did reflect the most recent save I had made (saying I was in Bree) but the game which was loaded had me in the Trollshaws.
I experimented a bit and found that, no matter how often I saved, whenever I reloaded I was back to the original save point. I did some digging and I think I found the answer. I have uploaded a couple of jpeg's showing my save directory at two different times:
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- tome2.JPG (17.39 KiB) Viewed 4279 times
I read the changelogs and saw that a feature which has been added to prevent save corruption causes saves to happen to a separate file, which is then renamed once the save is finished. It seems that the rename is failing in my case.
To test this theory, I renamed the .tmp files to .teag and .teaz, and found that when I loaded the game, I was at the most recent save point, rather than the one from 12:18 p.m.
I am running on Windows XP, SP3. This is the first time I have played on this machine.
I doubt this matters, but just in case, my character is a level 2 Noldor alchemist named Feandren. I have saved in both Bree and the Trollshaws.
