C2 Autosave?

Does autosave exist in Construct2? If it does how do I disable it?

Manual entry about the preferences dialog

Uncheck the autobackup check box.

Be sure also to check tutorial about using backup options.

Are you sure you want to disable autosave ? It can save your datas/current projects.

I wouldn't recommend disabling it, because it could save you a lot of trouble if something goes wrong.

I'm not sure if it's saving over my currently open file. I usually do a lot of experimental changes to my game and see if it works, and if doesn't i'll close it without saving anything. Every time I manage to make something that actually works well, I save a new file.

Construct 2 has been crashing when opening my previous version and i haven't saved any changes to it. I was thinking that if there's been any automatic saves that would have corrupted the file when Construct has been crashing. A file previous from that opens and works well and I have work hard to make the same changes to it.

usually I don't like anything happening "behind my back".

C2 absolutely does not touch your project files on disk unless you explicitly press the Save button. If it does it may be a bug (but it would seem unlikely to me), but I am more worried about files going corrupt - is there anything you can reproduce and file a bug report for?

Ashley

Good to know. I think my file got broken after I opened it while I was monitoring performance from Windows task manager. I can try to do some testing and see if there's a connection.

when I open the file layouts are loading and changing as they do, but after a while everything stops and there's a windows error.

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memory issue?

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53898431/Junk/C2_Task_Manager_Crash.jpg" border="0">

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53898431/Junk/C2_Task_Manager_Crash.jpg

nemo - looks like it's just running out of memory, possibly on texture creation with having loads of tabs open. Does closing all the tabs and only ever having one or two open prevent the problem?

Recommended fix:

(If desktop..)

Buy Kingston RAM 4gb

(If laptop..)

DDR3 4GB

OR

DDR2 4GB

How to install (laptop)

Unfortunately, if you need DDR2, it is significantly more expensive, ironically.

Hope this helps!

It may be that the system is running out of VRAM (graphics card memory) in this case, so buying system RAM might not actually help.

Ashley

My task manager's performance monitor doesn't seem to measure VRAM, does yours? (win7 sp1)

teahousemoon - it's actually pretty difficult to measure VRAM, you generally need specialist tools from your GPU vendor to do it. It's also complicated by the fact often GPUs can share some (but not all) memory with RAM, so the reported memory use/capacity may be larger than it actually has on-board. GPUs tend to have much smaller on-board memory than typical for system memory, e.g. 256mb or 512mb, while system RAM is often 4 GB+, so it's much more likely the GPU runs out of memory before the system does.

Yeah. I guess ultimately, for nemo: 2GB more ram if your system allows for it. If not, just be careful with having a lot of tabs open, like Ashley said. Same deal if it turns out to be your VRAM. But the memory that you see at 97% usage on your performance chart is just your system RAM.

Thanks Ashley and teahousemoon

I think I have enough RAM on my computer, but more wouldn't be bad.

It really did help to close those tabs and only keep some of them open. I had never really paid any attention on those tabs because I always navigate via Projects window. I had also reported another "bug" about layouts getting empty. I think it was probably because of my 110 tabs open at the same time.