Are old games still playable with patch 1.20?

[Dodd]

Before I install the latest patch for SE5, I needed to confirm if my old games would still be playable? I currently am playing Kwoks version 1.00 and am also looking at upgrading this to 1.01.

[Phoenix-D]

Should be. The patch itself doesn't break savegames and I don't think Kwok made any save-breaking modifications from 1.00->1.01.

[Dodd]

Thats good. A friend and I are at the moment playing a game on the same computer and I didnt want to spoil a potentialy interesting game.

Dodd

[Q]

You can even play games started with balance mod versions below 1.0 with SE version 1.20, if you just insert the line

Default Empire Option Sort Mounts By Name := FALSE

in the settings.txt file of your balance mod version 0.99.