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The first issue I encountered did indeed scare the hell out of me, and it continued to scare the hell out of me EVERY time it happened… Loading the game took about one minute. And I do mean one minute, roughly sixty seconds. It also took that long to save it. And sure enough, every time I added more to the game and clicked the save icon, I held my breath in hope it would save without any issues.
Then one day, a few months back, I clicked save and the hard disk light started flashing as Fusion saved the game. Time passed… Ten seconds… Twenty… Thirty… Forty… Fifty… Sixty… … … … And the hard disk light kept chugging!! After about another sixty seconds, and with the hard disk light still chugging, I got worried! That was over two minutes now saving the game, and all I had was the spinning Windows cursor… What was going on???
Another minute passed, and another!! That’s four minutes!!! I sat on my chair waiting and I literally did indeed think the game file was gone, it was corrupted!! This was not right!! About a minute more later, that’s five minutes total, the chugging stopped and the windows mouse pointer reappeared!!
Checking the file in Explorer, the file size seemed ok. But I was worried. I closed down Fusion and instantly launched it again and loaded up Dungeoneer again. That one minute load time was scary because I really did think I was going to get prompted by an error message saying it couldn’t open the file. But it loaded, it opened, and all was fine.
And so began what I came to know as the “Five Minute Saves!” These didn’t happen all the time, most times I got a one minute save. But as the Dungeoneer game grew, and the MFA file size grew, the five minute saves became more frequent! Suffice to say, a one minute save is scary enough, but to see the hard disk light chugging for five minutes can really break you out in a sweat!
And just so you know, this happened on multiple computers, not just one. So I don’t know what Fusion was doing during these five minute saves, but it did indeed save my game just fine, while scaring the hell out of me in the process! LOL!!