Sorry if I'm being a bit slow but..

You write that for technical reasons it's not possible to completely upgrade savegames from 1.4 to 1.42 - some items on the ground might loose magical properties.

Is that *all* the problems with this approach? I mean, I have some 1.4 savegames that I would very much like to continue with (game was started as 1.4) and I don't think I have any important items lying around on the ground.

So if possible I would like to continue playing with 1.4 savegames but since I'm still in Act1 (although close to the end) I would rather restart the game now than getting some game-stopping problems later because of patch 1.4...

- Telemachos