Can we fix Auto-Save please?

Logisitcs

If that feature is working as intended it seriously needs to be taken back to the drawing board and reworked.
Common sense would've told you Auto-Save should be saving after an x amount of time has passed, whether it's not doing that because of a bug or because it was designed that way I don't know, what I do know is that it's no good the way it is.

Do something about Auto-Save! Why is it there?! It's next to useless at the moment!

LadyDarkSorrow

Logisitcs wrote: »

If that feature is working as intended it seriously needs to be taken back to the drawing board and reworked.
Common sense would've told you Auto-Save should be saving after an x amount of time has passed, whether it's not doing that because of a bug or because it was designed that way I don't know, what I do know is that it's no good the way it is.

Do something about Auto-Save! Why is it there?! It's next to useless at the moment!

I wish I could turn it off

Pandia101

I haven't seen it work, yet.

Stormkeep

It has been working correctly for me, but I'd like to have the ability to specify the time frame for auto-saves. Right now I feel it is auto-saving too frequently (the game has a very slight stutter-pause when it auto-saves).

chesterbigbird

Stormkeep wrote: »

It has been working correctly for me, but I'd like to have the ability to specify the time frame for auto-saves. Right now I feel it is auto-saving too frequently (the game has a very slight stutter-pause when it auto-saves).

Apparently it only auto saves when travelling to a new lot or editing in CAS , ect,
Does not save periodically.
But i do wish they had not included it.. been allot of trouble for some people.

Stormkeep

@chesterbigbird wrote: »

Apparently it only auto saves when travelling to a new lot or editing in CAS , ect,
Does not save periodically.
But i do wish they had not included it.. been allot of trouble for some people.

...That is not how it is working for me. It saves periodically..period. No need to travel, use CAS or anything else. And the period between auto-saves is far shorter than I would prefer.

BrandiBug

It doesn't auto-save for me at all I wish it did ;_;

sholtx

I don't even know what that is. I just save the game like I did in TS3.

Logisitcs

Stormkeep wrote: »

@chesterbigbird wrote: »

Apparently it only auto saves when travelling to a new lot or editing in CAS , ect,
Does not save periodically.
But i do wish they had not included it.. been allot of trouble for some people.

...That is not how it is working for me. It saves periodically..period. No need to travel, use CAS or anything else. And the period between auto-saves is far shorter than I would prefer.

Except that it's not auto-saving... at all! Even when it stutters there is no saving! My game just crashed (huge shock) after an hour play through and I lost all progress despite Auto-Save being turned on. It's flat out not working, period.

LadyDarkSorrow

my doesn't crash, it like to freeze my game every 5 mins or so for at lease 10 to 25 sec.. and does it in cast

kremesch73

I haven't had a problem with the autosave yet, but I just started using the advice others have given about saving so I hopefully don't run into the issues others seem to be having. Better to be safe then sorry, I think.

Stormkeep

@Logistics, I understand it is not working for some people...but it is working for me. Whenever I use the "load game" button on starting there is an auto-save there that is usually only a few minutes different from the "save as" that I did before exiting the game. Sometimes it is even right after.

I get it, the feature is not working for everyone based on what people are saying. But don't presume that it works for no-one. That would be incorrect.

It is working for me, and I was just indicating that even with it working, I feel it is not working the way I'd like it to because it is doing the autosave TOO often.

Piinkbunnie

I haven´t put any trust in the "Auto save". Got used to not having one in TS3.

So I do "save as", usually 3 save files I rotate for 1 game. Then I mix it up with save, whenever I remember. So far I haven´t lost anything. But from what I have read on the forum, I will stick to my "save paranoia system" LoL

marthakix

Ye, you must use save as. I got a sim deleted from my neighborhood using auto save.

So_Money

To make matters worse, it looks like auto saves are corrupting pretty often and causing crashes.

JoxerTM22

Autosave is either poorly designed or is bugged.
Since we can't possibly know when the patch will be released, before exiting the game, make sure you use "save as" option.

blunote00

Acknowledgement of issue with Autosave is in this thread from SimGuruHayes.
forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12683254/#Comment_12683254

Crinrict has move The Sims 4 Bug Report over to it's own forum at Answer HQ.
answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/INFO-Lost-save-games-PLEASE-READ-FIRST-POST/m-p/3452781#U3452781

derfloc

@Stormkeep you are wrong, it doesn't save while playing, even the gurus confirmed that it isn't working that way. It only saves when traveling and on exit.

ianxzi

It doesn't work for me... I had to restart my family about 3 times because I thought auto-save was working, but apparently it wasn't. Not even the "save" button worked. I had to start using "save as" instead, because it's the only thing that ACTUALLY saved my game.

marthakix

Yup. It's broken! Save as to the recue!