[Tutorial] How to Pause the game until it's a Feature

[Rakiin]

People already mentioned it, but here again. If you need to pause the game, use your Resource Monitor. There are multiple ways to open it.

You can skip 1-3 and just type "resource monitor" in windows search and it should pop up continue with step 4.

If you can't find resource monitor use Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete at the same time.

1. Open Task Manager
2. Click the Second Tab "Performance"
3. Bottom left should be a blue link "resource monitor"
--------------------After Resource Monitor is open -------------------------
4. Look for "dinkum.exe" should be on top, click the box left of "dinkum.exe" so the exe stays on top
5. right click on "dinkum.exe" and suspend it.
6. Take your break as long as you want, the longest I was afk, was over 30 minutes.
7. after you are done taking your break just right click on "dinkum.exe" again and unsuspend it

The game will be frozen while it's suspended, don't panic it's normal, just minimize the game BEFORE suspending, if it bothers you.

IMPORTANT: Game seems to stop responding if you use this method at night time, not sure when, probably after 8 pm or earlier.

if you have any questions just ask.

[OLD LADY GAMER]

Thanks very much 8)

[tate]

Thank you for this! I even downloaded cheatengine to try pausing the game and that didn’t work. Good to know your method. Thanks!

[Magz Out Loud]

Haven't tried it yet, but thanks!

[DrTuSo]

Started playing yesterday, missing the pause function I read your solution.
So far worked great and used like 20 times today. But 2 times the game froze and did not recover, both times it was close to midnight and I had to redo the whole day.

For now I won't pause after 8pm ingame time, it seems to risk a full freeze + crash.

[Scoot_in_FL]

Originally posted by HixtTait:

Thank you for this! I even downloaded cheatengine to try pausing the game and that didn’t work. Good to know your method. Thanks!

The table for Dinkum on WeMod (which is free and doesn't bug you when using it about paying for the pro features) works fine. I have used a table on Cheat Engine which does work for pausing time, but WeMod is easier to use. There's a setting on the WeMod table for pausing the game and you can enable and disable the setting while in the game (it's the Numpad 0 key). I haven't had any crashes using it. Pausing the game isn't cheating, but there are other settings that could be seen as cheating and you can just ignore them (not enable them) if you're worried about it ruining the gameplay.

[Biggles]

Originally posted by HixtTait:

Thank you for this! I even downloaded cheatengine to try pausing the game and that didn’t work. Good to know your method. Thanks!

I wouldn't go near cheat engine it's riddled with spyware - only safe version is the standalone (portaable version).

[boxinabox]

A pause mod also just popped up on Nexus today. Will stop time, but not world movement, so would want to be somewhere safe.

[GameOverRIP]

The game pauses when you sleep

[KumoriKyomu]

There's a pause button in Options. It's odd to get to, but it works.

[Biggles]

You've necro'd a post - the Pause Feature didn't exist at the time of the OP , but was added later (and I dare say that the OP already knows by now).

[CrypticJojo]

Originally posted by Biggles:

You've necro'd a post - the Pause Feature didn't exist at the time of the OP , but was added later (and I dare say that the OP already knows by now).

Weirdly I bought the game today and the pause button isn't there in the menu/options page where it's supposed to be. Anyone else run into that issue? Is it because I'm only on day 3 for some reason, cuz that doesn't make sense.

[Paris]

Originally posted by CrypticJojo:

Originally posted by Biggles:

You've necro'd a post - the Pause Feature didn't exist at the time of the OP , but was added later (and I dare say that the OP already knows by now).

Weirdly I bought the game today and the pause button isn't there in the menu/options page where it's supposed to be. Anyone else run into that issue? Is it because I'm only on day 3 for some reason, cuz that doesn't make sense.

You should look for existing posts in the future as I've probably answered this more than once myself and I imagine there are others who did too, but you can only pause in singleplayer (even if you are playing alone in multiplayer it doesnt let you pause) and you must sleep the first night and reload your save for the pause button to appear.