Can't save game 1.18

cecil101 · Post by **cecil101** » Mon, 2. Dec 13, 22:02

I ran into this issue before 1.16... Then it was fine for 1.16 and 1.17... then for 1.18 I get "saved dump errors" and "saved failed" messages.. Any thoughts or fixes? Is any anyone having these problems?

Cebullus · Post by **Cebullus** » Tue, 3. Dec 13, 01:06

My game crashes pretty often upon saving the game now.

Crash dumps emailed already. Lets see ..

cecil101 · Post by **cecil101** » Tue, 3. Dec 13, 01:34

Let's hope this one gets resolved fast. Anyone else out there? Maybe a fix?

Zetoss · Post by **Zetoss** » Tue, 3. Dec 13, 06:59

I started getting save fails all of a sudden after some 10 hours of playing 1.18 without having a single save hiccup, it only says that the save has failed (doesn't crash, keeps going like nothing is wrong) and only happens in DeVries around the shipyard and farm so far...

Post by **CBJ** » Tue, 3. Dec 13, 11:26

Have any of you provided crash dumps, either here or in the public beta forum?

Pimpace · Post by **Pimpace** » Tue, 3. Dec 13, 11:35

CBJ wrote:Have any of you provided crash dumps, either here or in the public beta forum?

Yes, I'm getting this serious error too: THIS

cecil101 · Post by **cecil101** » Tue, 3. Dec 13, 12:34

How do I provide my crash dump?

cecil101 · Post by **cecil101** » Thu, 5. Dec 13, 01:52

In the interest of not making another thread...

Anyone find a fix for the crash when saving thing?

cecil101 · Post by **cecil101** » Thu, 5. Dec 13, 13:49

I think I may have found a possible reason for why my game crashes on saves... I had just upgraded my ram to 4 gb on 32 bit vista witch only recognized 3,330mb of it... So I did a BCDEdit /set PAE ForceEnable (to no effect and yes I have a 64 capable processor).

After I installed the ram I played and had fun... A day or 2 later I got around to doing the BCDedit... After I enabled it, I was plagued with save crashes and even random ones... Then a few days after beating my head against the wall wondering what the hell happened... I disabled the BCDedit and poof... No crashes yet...

Can anyone give any insight (because I'm not too savvy with computers) on how or why this could effect the crashes when saving games?

Post by **Terre** » Thu, 5. Dec 13, 14:37

Tips for other problems wrote:- We read reports of people who can not save: This is usually caused by running the game on 32bit OS. Note that running X Rebirth on a 32bit Windows version is not supported.

Post by **CBJ** » Thu, 5. Dec 13, 14:52

That information would have been a really useful to have provided from the start. This is precisely the reason why we ask everyone to provide a [url=http://www.egosoft.com/support/faq/faq_answer_en.php?answer=610&version=8][b]DX[/b][b]D[/b]iag[/url] report in the sticky threads at the top of the forum; it saves a lot of wasted time for everyone.

In your case the answer is very simple: 32-bit versions of Windows do not meet the minimum requirements for the game and are not supported. Crashes during saving in this scenario are quite common and are typically caused by the game running out of memory.

And yes, for the benefit of anyone reading this who is not running a 32-bit OS, we are aware of other cases of crashes during saving too, but they are not relevant in this context.

Edit: Beaten by Terre while I was doing something else.

cecil101 · Post by **cecil101** » Thu, 5. Dec 13, 15:25

Just to let people know... My game runs fairly smooth. It was interesting to see that trying to force my computer to recognize a full 4gb of memory actually caused problems.

Thank you for your responses.

MartinSGill · Post by **MartinSGill** » Thu, 5. Dec 13, 19:41

CBJ wrote:<snip>
In your case the answer is very simple: 32-bit versions of Windows do not meet the minimum requirements for the game and are not supported. Crashes during saving in this scenario are quite common and are typically caused by the game running out of memory.
<snip>

I wonder how much time would be saved by simple

if %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% != "AMD64" throw new NotSupportedException;

I know there are bigger issues... but still.

KRM398 · Post by **KRM398** » Thu, 5. Dec 13, 22:32

Not sure if this is even related but today I played for a couple hours and when I left and came back, it had refused at least 2 auto saves. The spot where I came back to was a manual save I did before I started this morning. This is twice the auto saves haven't taken or been accepted so now I manually save every few jobs, no matter what.