Some game options not preserved in saved games

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When saving a game in Vanilla Doom, some game options are not preserved. This includes the following settings:

• Respawning monsters (-respawn)
• Fast monsters (-fast)
• No monsters (-nomonsters)
• Deathmatch (-deathmatch and -altdeath)

The affected options are mainly relevant when playing multiplayer. When restoring a network savegame, the bug can be circumvented by adding the appropriate options onto the command line.

[edit] Technical

The function G_DoSaveGame in g_game.c is the entrypoint into the code which saves games. This writes a "header" to savegame files which contains game options. The game options saved are the skill level, episode and map, and a list of players in the game. Any other options are not saved.

[edit] See also

• IDCLEV idiosyncrasies