Crash Recovery

[Conundrum]

So, when the game crashes and you lose your really nice Drakeling Fighter (or whatever), the save file is gone... but all the tmpdat is still there. I don't suppose there's any way to trick the game into making a save file out of them?

[JellySlayer]

Sorry, there is no known way to recover a character after a crash. You can play on one of the servers, because those will have some crash recovery mechanisms. Or back up your games as you go along. Or just put up with it and curse when it happens.

You will need to delete the adom.prc file in your adom directory for the game to work again. It's a temporary file that basically just checks to see if another version of adom is open, but will get left behind if your game closes unexpectedly.

[Epythic]

No that's not possible.

I suggest you use a wrapper script that auto-backups your savegame everytime you load.

[Conundrum]

You will need to delete the adom.prc file in your adom directory for the game to work again. It's a temporary file that basically just checks to see if another version of adom is open, but will get left behind if your game closes unexpectedly.

Yeah, I figured that out when I tried to exit the game straight away when I got a shit random character. It's not easy to close the window in the winbeta version! Ended the process eventually then it wouldn't work, decided that I may as well just enter the game and shift-q out.