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The games and their results

Hades 2 - Result: No data loss.

Still Wakes The Deep - Result: Absolutely fuckaw.

Dread Delusion - Result: Getting very bored of entering my Windows password.

Cyberpunk 2077 - Result: Regret starting this pointless experiment.

Alien: Isolation - Result: Just glad this is over, to be honest.

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[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would imagine it also creates a temporary file to replace the file, so if the pc crashes it reverts to the temp file. Would be silly to not have a safety net.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If the computer is powered off when in the middle of writing a game's current state to disk, that write is going to be incomplete and the state lost.

Sure, your save slot may not get corrupted and you'll probably still be able to load whatever was in it before, but no amount of temporary files is going to help you recover data that was never written to disk in the first place

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which isn’t an issue in most games since they usually have an auto save that triggers every 3 seconds. It would only be a factor in games where you can only manually save. And people know to save those VERY frequently for various reasons already.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which isn’t an issue in most games since they usually have an auto save that triggers every 3 seconds.

Ah well if we're going to just make shit up to win an argument, I'll have you know that my uncle works for Nintendo and he said that's not true.