Corrupt Save Games and Crashing

Discussion in 'The Temple of Elemental Evil' started by Jack_Deth, May 8, 2011.

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  1. Jack_Deth

    Jack_Deth Member

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    I am level 5 and just completed the moathoase with CO8 v6.1, having a problem with save games. One of my saves I can load, however when I travel back to Homlett and try to enter the Wench, I CTD.

    Otherwise, I am getting a lot of corrupted saves, interestingly this happens to saves that were fine but the save gets corrupted after reloading the save and attempting to enter the Wench Inn.

    I do not have autosave or use quick saves.

    Any ideas ? Already went back a couple hours, replayed and then still then crashed again/corrupted saves
     
  2. sirchet

    sirchet Force for Goodness Moderator Supporter

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    Welcome to the forum Jack_Deth.

    Could you give a few more details as to what operating system you're running and your pc's stats.
     
  3. Skittles

    Skittles Kind of Delicious

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    If my latest save file gets corrupted, and I try to load a previously fine save, the game tells me that the prior saves are now corrupt. However, if I quit and restart the game and load one of the older files first, it takes.

    Have you tried that?
     
  4. Jack_Deth

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    Thanks for the replies guys.

    Yes exactly, so I started backing up saves before I tried anything.

    I got it working just out of randomness, if I did the following I would crash at the Welcome Wench Inn.

    1) Moathouse Exit
    2) Homlett South
    3) Welcome Wench (Crash)

    No crash if I did this:
    1) Moathouse Exit
    2) Welkwood Bog Entrance
    3) Homlett East
    4) Homlett Tower/Castle
    5) Homlett South
    6) Jaroo's House
    7) Welcome Wench Inn (No Crash)

    So I was able to continue my game. Persistence won.

    Interestingly, I did a WinMerge compare between a 'good save' and a 'corrupt save' of exactly the same save file. When a save gets corrupted, ToEE actually is adding some binary data to the file (as in - the files that were the same, were no longer the same after attempting to load one of them).
     
  5. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Had you ever used the console to input any protos?
     
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