Save States from hard-disk installed games

antonvaltaz · 02 November 2009, 02:28

Last thread I saw for this was from April... I understand that using WinUAE to save your state is unreliable for HD-installed games? (Not tried it, just what I read).

Is this still an issue, and if so is it possible / likely to be addressed in future? (I don't understand the technical issues behind it).

It's the main thing putting me off buying and using WHDLoad...

Kitty · 02 November 2009, 09:07

bumping this thread too

I'm gonna be using WHDLoad soon to play rocknroll so I will be needing to know this too.

Toni Wilen · 02 November 2009, 13:16

It is "supported" (=should work but can break easily because I don't use it and nobody has said anything at all..) as long as you don't have any extra "expansions" enabled.

Directory harddrives should be most compatible (and safest), Picasso96 can make it unstable.

antonvaltaz · 02 November 2009, 13:33

Okay, will be sure to turn off RTG and avoid HDFs then...

When you say about avoiding extra "expansions", does that include increasing the Fast RAM, as I understand that WHDLoad games need lots of RAM to run?

Toni Wilen · 02 November 2009, 14:05

Any expansion that interfaces to "outside world". (uaescsi, bsdsocket, ..)

RAM is fully supported.

02 November 2009, 02:28	#1
antonvaltaz Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Oxford, UK Age: 43 Posts: 511	Save States from hard-disk installed games Last thread I saw for this was from April... I understand that using WinUAE to save your state is unreliable for HD-installed games? (Not tried it, just what I read). Is this still an issue, and if so is it possible / likely to be addressed in future? (I don't understand the technical issues behind it). It's the main thing putting me off buying and using WHDLoad...

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02 November 2009, 09:07	#2
Kitty Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: London UK Posts: 1,532	bumping this thread too I'm gonna be using WHDLoad soon to play rocknroll so I will be needing to know this too.

02 November 2009, 13:16	#3
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,553	It is "supported" (=should work but can break easily because I don't use it and nobody has said anything at all..) as long as you don't have any extra "expansions" enabled. Directory harddrives should be most compatible (and safest), Picasso96 can make it unstable.

02 November 2009, 13:33	#4
antonvaltaz Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Oxford, UK Age: 43 Posts: 511	Okay, will be sure to turn off RTG and avoid HDFs then... When you say about avoiding extra "expansions", does that include increasing the Fast RAM, as I understand that WHDLoad games need lots of RAM to run?

02 November 2009, 14:05	#5
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,553	Any expansion that interfaces to "outside world". (uaescsi, bsdsocket, ..) RAM is fully supported.

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