when you use this mod unless you have a beefy computer the mod will take longer and longer at each autosave anyone know how to fix this?
as the autosave now stops the game from working and I cant access my save anymore

Hi. Sorry if this is a dumb question. But how do you load an autosave? does it show separately on the game's menu load list?

Also, it doesn't appear to be possible to change the save frequency. Would be a nice addition.

Great mod. I hope one day there will be a version avaliable that doesn't require manual class installation. Please, keep this mod updated for as long as you can!

yeah, i was pretty new with B42 modding back then and got a little confused, sorry. Options should actually show up for B41 but I'd need to check for 42 to make really sure. I remember I did get it working at some point so I'm actually not 100% sure what did I mess up.

I followed your instructions but I dont see any options in the mods category, I only see placeholder options that comes with the example mod options

It works!

b42 btw.

Doesn't work for me, can't see the mod in "options > mods". Followed the instructions throughouly.

i don't get this issue...

41

Weird... build 41 or build 42?

I can provide some additional information:
- I have almost top end PC, so speed is not a problem
- after uninstalling this mod I was able to recover the save and continue playing, but the car I was traveling with at the moment of save did not recover (when mod was still installed and I loaded the save the car was still present)
- with mod installed and error in place I was not even able to quit game via menu - the menu options dissappeared when I selected to quit the game, but nothing happened

I have installed this mode today and after fist save I got same problem as DigitalBaguette. Most of the interface is gone and after reloading the save there are no Zombies, interface is still missing and when I entery vehicle I get error in right bottom corner.

I have a pretty beefy PC so I don't think it has to do with the saving itself, especially as apart from the hud being gone the game works fine, rather than it disabling some game functionality. It seems to be some sort of an edge case thought, if I have time I'll see if it may be caused be some combination of other mods but it seems unlikely as all of the mods I have are some of the most downloaded. And unfortunately any in-game hotkey don't fix the issue either.

Odd, that does not happen to me. There is a hotkey for disabling the HUD though, was it V?
Either way, it may also just be the game freezing real badly (like I explained in the description) due to how the save system works just in general. This is my first ever mod so it's not perfect at all, if anyone else more experienced wants to use it as a base, they're free to! (Credit is appreciated though)

I appreciate the work that you have done, but I cannot recommend this mod. I'm playing on B41. Every time the game tries to auto save it removes most of my hud practically bricking my save as it's not possible in any intuitive way to turn it back on. I tried many things but it seems that this auto save causes some of the critical functions of the game to stop working. I really would appreciate if someone had a fix for my issue. Anyways thank you for the work that you have done, it seems that majority of people have had a positive experience with the mod.

All goods. And for the guy below to get it working on steam deck, there's an install script made by BlackCorsair on GitHub that'll install Java on the steam deck, then just follow the rest of the mod install instructions otherwise. Again not sure why the mod options don't show up but it functions as intended otherwise.

oh great, i'm sorry for the trouble!

Update, I'm not sure why it's not showing up under mod options, but I'm on steam deck and it seems to actually work right at 9am in game, thanks!

What java version was this intended for? I'm struggling to get it to work.

I'd love to help but I don't own one, haha

How do I get this going on steam deck

huh... weird.

41.78.16.

are you on build 42 or 41?

Hey @Lol124, first of all, great idea! This mod was exactly what I was looking for, however after copy pasting zombie file per your guide, game wont open. It goes to black screen and I can see assets loading before it crashes back to steam page. I'm able to run it if I verify integrity of files but that removes the mod. Did anyone else report this same issue?

The mod is complete crap, it doesn't work. I relied on it and lost my save with the character. I don't recommend installing it.

i've got no idea if it'd work for linux to be honest

Will this work for Steamdeck/Linux?
Also shorter intervals would be cool like every 6-12 hour options saving

Man, thanks for the mod, but I want to change it for myself a little. My in game day lasts for 8 real hours, so waiting for end of it is to long for me. How I can change time for autosave and add option for it?

Is it possible to add auto pause option right before save? Also, manual save oprion would be very good indeed.
Thanks for the mod. Playing on a crappy pc this gives me peace of mid that if i die from a lag i can at least rollback.

i'll consider it, thank you!

If you can, please add a way to do manual auto saves. That would make this mod 100% greater!

I haven't tested it but i doubt it'd

Does it work in multiplayer?

Hello friend! You must've heard this problem from your subscribers before, but I have a slight problem.

Same thing like Equilix | Doom, I cannot find the setting in Mod Options.

I followed your instructions to a proper end, but It feels like I'm a old man since it's not working...

I tried resetting, reinstalling, mod order changes, etc. Yet it doesn't appear.

I am using Build 42 and did the correct things, but it seems I've failed either way.

Thank you for reading and I hope I can help if I am not clear on anything!

Thank you! Glad you liked it! I'll be updating it soon hopefully

Yo this mod is amazing. Thank you so freaking much

Why you should add this? Because if you spam PZ unresponsive window. Windows Handler could end process after PZ become responsive again. Maybe after auto save is completed you don't lose anything. But main save will be borked 100%

Its not a news that this bad freeze could happend, especially when you saving so much elements in one save (around 30 000 elements in one folder) it could be optimized somehow, but i don't think that TIS will do anything about it because its not their priority right now.

When you will make message about "save start" you could type something like:

Starting Saving . . .
(If it takes longer than usual, don't panic, don't touch anything, just wait until its done)..

Quick update: While saving it could freeze for a really long time for unknown freaking reason. I had a heart attack for the moment because if my game crashed this time - i would lost current save, and the save what is saving right now.

The strange thing happend is - when it was in saving process. It was like 5 minutes or longer, when it saving for that long you probably start to panic a little bit.

If you open windows task manager, it shows that PZ using around 3.0 mb/s of hard drive (my game installed on HDD). Then, there a another process called: Microsoft Windows Search Indexer what eats a lot of HDD usage (around 5-8 mb/s) for no good reason. And knowing that microsoft never updated this crucial part of the system, and its works awful nowdays in compare with other third-party program (like "Everything") what does indexing much better.

You have to enable it for B41 but you don't have to for B42, the options should show up by themselves. I remember getting them to work so I'll just review the code in short. Thanks for the multiple reports lol.

Also, about the multiple times options... I guess I could consider it. The message before the game starts saving is a good idea as well. Thanks for the feedback once again!

I'm so stupid. I've indexed the wrong mod :((((((

Can you add more options of time? To save like not every 24 hours but 12 hours, 6 hours, 2 hours ingame time?

And as i see, after saving it created save with _auto prefix. It would be perfect if it would save up to 3 backups for the 100% safe progression (or how many player will check for autosave from 1 to 5 slots)

It would be logical to print message above player that game starts saving (before saving so message will appear first). To not confuse users when game freezes.

Can't seem to get the Mod Options to appear.

I've tried rearranging the load order. Restarting the game. etc Nothing seems to fix it. I've attached screenshots that hopefully help. Also on B42

https://file.garden/aDhShqUiyC8J02m7/Mod%20Load%20Order (Mod Load Order)
https://file.garden/aDhShqUiyC8J02m7/Enabled%20Mods (Enabled Mods)
https://file.garden/aDhShqUiyC8J02m7/Mod%20Options (Mod Options)

i guess i could give it a try eventually. thanks for the feedback

well, i mean, if you do manage to simulate the very same process the game uses to save, therefore removing the awful freeze, now that would be hella useful lol.
most of the mods i came accross use some sort of 3rd party software that its kinda annoying imo, yours would possibly be the only one of the kind

Have you noticed how when the game crashes some stuff is missing? That's cuz it doesn't save fully, just some important stuff. The way this mod was done is so it does the "full" save when you quit, so that's why it takes so much. Maybe I could make a faster alternative that doesn't save all the stuff, but I don't think that'd be as useful...?

umh, it's not like I want to over criticize or something, but the game saves at least once a day every morning after waking up, and it does not cause any freezes or anything, so there must be something more than just that going on with the mod