Way to increase auto-save frequency ?

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Hey all - we have been playing lots of 4 and 6 player games the last coupla weeks but the game normally crashes on average once every so often - is there anyways to change the auto-save frequency to a shorter amount of time - like once every 5 minutes or so ? Thanks for the feedback.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

yes there is, go to the settings file in your game folder and open user.settings file

TXT
Version 193
PlayerName "NewPlayer"
PlayerThemeIndex 43
PlayerPictureIndex 16
PlayerColorIndex 7
LastGameAddressConnectedTo ""
LastGameHostPortConnectedTo 6112
GameHostPort 6112
GameBroadcastPort 6000
EnableUPnPPortForwarding TRUE
VideoAdapterOrdinal 0
VideoIsWindowed FALSE
VideoRefreshRate 60
VideoFullScreenWidth 1600
VideoFullScreenHeight 1200
VideoWindowedWidth 1024
VideoWindowedHeight 768
VideoMultiSampleType 4
TextureCompressionEnabled TRUE
TextureQualityForShipColor 3
TextureQualityForShipData 3
TextureQualityForShipBump 3
TextureQualityForModuleColor 3
TextureQualityForModuleData 3
TextureQualityForModuleBump 3
TextureQualityForPlanetColor 3
Gamma 0.500000
SoundMusicVolume 0.300000
SoundEffectVolume 0.700000
SoundDialogueVolume 0.500000
SoundUIVolume 0.300000
SoundUseHardware FALSE
SoundStopWhenWindowLosesFocus TRUE
ChangeMusicVolumeInBattle TRUE
SoundStreamBufferSize 2000
IcoServerAddress "ico.stardock.com"
IcoServerPort 7000
IcoIsAccountNameSaved FALSE
IcoAccountName ""
IcoShowChannelPlayerChanges TRUE
IcoShowFriendChanges TRUE
IcoHostGameOnProxyServer TRUE
CalculateCheckSumTickFrequency 50
CalculateCheckSumDetail 0
SaveCheckSumSnapShotsInGameTickFrequency 0
SaveCheckSumSnapShotsOnSave FALSE
IsCheckSumLoggingOn FALSE
IsAutoRecordOn TRUE
IsAutoSaveOn TRUE
AutoSaveTickFrequency 900     <- here is were you modify the time frame

also the reason for why the game sometimes minidumps is because of the 2 gig limit, find the Sins Optimization Mod to help with that as well

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Many thanks. Do all of us have to mod this file or only the host ?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I think that all do. I have the saved multi-player auto-saves as well when I am not the host. I turned mine to FALSE (no saves unless I want to)

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Thank you very much.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

It crashes once every 5 minutes?

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

I should point out if you are playing a LAN game some people have reported that the autosaves can cause their games to desync and crash under certain conditions, and they have had a better experience just playing with it off. Of course that might not be the source of your problem and it will crash without you being able to restart from the save, but it is something to consider.