A crash kills the current session without injury to the data already written to the DWG file. QSAVE writes the current status of the session to the DWG file, a crash or quit will have no effect on that DWG file.
Are you talking about an autosave??
(way to dredge up a seven year old post )
Actually, I believe Farrell is correct, in that under the Options menu / Open & Save tab, you have the File Save Incremental save percentage (I believe this started in v2012) which saves incrementally until you reach the percentage listed, then it will save to the file.
I have mine set at 15% but with it so low, it also slows down the overall performance of the software but I prefer to save what I have done rather than have the performance and have a possible crash / power outage and lose what I've done.
[edit] So there is still a difference between the 'save' and 'qsave' functions.