new patch = crashing

[plutomaniac]

Thank you for trying to help Plutomaniac, but Steam updated the game without asking me, and it wasn't done while I was playing, I have since found a check box to tell it not to auto-update but that dosen't help me now.

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Can I have confirmation from Jens or another tech support that the patch is incompatible with my previous save game and my only option is to start a new game?

First of all you mistaken the quote. It was written with the v1.2 update and it means that v1.2 update is a little-bit different when it comes to saves in comparison to v1.0 and v1.0.1. What I want to tell you is that you don't need to start a new game like that. As I wrote here in a similar problem:

If you update the game you should start a new game although most of the times you won't have problems. But if you do you can do three things(before option 3):

1) Start from a previous save before the current chamber
2) Reinstall the game as it was before the update
3) Start a new game

In conclusion, I'm telling you to do option 1 and option 2. Not 3, yet!

**I also have another more crazy-like idea since option 2 is difficult to be done because v1.2 is the second patch and steam autoupdates to the latest one. What if we tried to manually install v1.0.1 update which you had before by copying its files to game folder? I still have the update. But first you would have to install the game again as v1.0 and then do that. But try option 1 first**