squeekie
Level: Master Delver
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I'm almost through with level 22. Is there any reason for me to upgrade to 1.7? Will it wipe my saved games out? I don't want to go through the game agian until I complete it. Then I'll replay it.

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Oneiromancer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

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1.6 is the latest version...1.7 is the next one, which will have all new monsters. And nothing should happen when you upgrade. Just copy your entire DROD folder to a new location as a backup and then run the 1.6 installer. It will install over the old folder, and when you run the game it will ask you whether or not you want to upgrade from your previous installation. Just say yes and you will have all of your save games. Trust me, it worked, I did it for every single build of the beta. But you will have your backup just in case.

Game on,

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squeekie
Level: Master Delver
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I made a new folder and named it drodbackup and copied all drod info to it. I left original drod folder and installed 1.6. It never asked me if I want to upgrade it just stated that it was installing to Crogram files/DROD. I started the game and it started at level one the dungeon. I deleted the contents of that folder and copied the backup folder back to that folder and I'm back where I started ( or ended ). I think I'll just finish the last 4 levels then upgrade.

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"Don't accept that what's happening
is just a case of others suffering
or you'll find that you're joining in on the turning away."

Oneiromancer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2936
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Very strange. It usually asks this when you start the game the first time, not during the installation process. You know what...you probably moved the files instead of making a copy of them. It looks for your player.dat file in the DROD folder, and if you moved it instead of copying it the program doesn't know any better.

Well, hopefully my comments on the Hints forum helped.

Game on,

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"He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder." -- Tad Williams