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Save Game Corruption (Again)

Submitted by Cicero on Sun, 2007-08-12 02:11. Space Empires V General

Hi All
Wondering if anyone gets the same problem I do when playing SE:V. I get to a point in the game and from then on most of my Save Games seem to be corrupt (or at least the game refuses to load them). I don't know what causes it but I did make a few of observations.
1) Ordinary save games start corrupting before Autosaves.
2) It does seem a bit random. Overwriting a saved game will usually result in the 'new' save game being Ok.
3) This used to happen prior to Patch 1.44, then for the last few weeks everything was fine. Now I'm getting corrupt files again.

I can live with occasional problems like save games breaking from time to time. My solution is to have 5 different save game files + autosaves, so even if one doesn't work I don't have much to repeat.
But right now my last 4 save games + 2 autosaves all seem to be corrupt.

Has anyone had this before and worked out a workaround? And any suggestions on what I could do (other than emailing MM).
Cheers
Cicero

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Re: Save Game Corruption (Again)

Submitted by StellarRat on Sun, 2007-08-12 20:10.

I haven't had this problem. Are you using a mod?

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Re: Save Game Corruption (Again)

Submitted by Cicero on Tue, 2007-08-14 04:27.

Yes, I'm using Unnamed's Stock AI Mod. But I had these problems in an earlier stock game.
In the last patch there was a fix which indicated there was a problem with save game corruption on a "huge" universe game, which I think is what I'm playing (can't actually remember what the size is).
The way it corrupts at a certain point in the game suggests that I'm hitting some sort of capacity limit. This is reinforced by having Autosaves work, but ordinary save games corrupt (for a while anyway - then both corrupt). A game saved during a turn will theoretically have more info in it (eg more stuff in the log and movement orders etc). But this could be a coincedence.

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Re: Save Game Corruption (Again)

Submitted by Cetus on Tue, 2007-08-14 07:35.

I had the same problem with 1.35 but the 1.44 patch solved the problem. I am running a game with 1650 planets in 172 systems, so far no problem till turn 185.

Have you checked your hard disk (sandisk,...)? Maybe you need to defrag it.

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Re: Save Game Corruption (Again)

Submitted by Cicero on Fri, 2007-08-17 06:07.

HD didn't look like it needed defragging, but I did it anyway. Will test it out over the next day or so to see if it helped. I'm about turn 130, and in a smaller universe than yours so it can't be the size (or at least not just the size).

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Re: Save Game Corruption (Again)

Submitted by Cicero on Mon, 2007-08-20 02:11.

Ok, so the game seems to be working again. The last few turns of play have resulted in no corrupt saved games yet. So the defrag might have helped.
Guess time will tell.

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