1.32 Russian/Steam. Bugs with game saves - Workaround found, dev needs info

[Red_Devil]

I'm played about 40 hours in game. I've built 1 station (Boron's quest). I have about 3 ships, and I have not even discovered the whole universe yet.
My hardware is:
Windows 10 Professional 64bit
GTX 1060 6Gb, with latest drivers
16GB of DDR4 RAM
I7-4770K Processor.

I had shut off the game for no longer than 10 minutes, and now all of a sudden whenever I try to load into ANY save game, the game goes through the loading screen, gets to 99%, faintly begins to render and all of a sudden the music becomes erratic. After that, main menu showing again.

For test, i started new game. Played 1-2 hour, then i saving game (2-3 times) and exit in main menu. After that, i tried load game. Nothing. Game saves are broken. All saves of new game are broken.

I did turt off all sound device, except main. Game save still do not loading.

[Alan Phipps]

Did your system update to 1.30 during that 10 minute shut down? Is your game modified or have your saves been edited (ever)? Have you verified the Steam gamefiles cache since 1.30?

[CBJ]

As per my post in the other thread, please provide the information requested in the sticky thread at the top of the forum.

[Red_Devil]

As per my post in the other thread, please provide the information requested in the sticky thread at the top of the forum.

Version and language (e.g. 1.0 English, etc.).
- Russian language. Version still 1.10 to 1.30. Problem finded at all this versions.
Whether or not your game is modified using any third party scripts or mods (see note below).
- No. I do not modified a game.
Game start being played.
- I tryed start new game at same times.
Exact nature of the problem, where and when it occurs and what you were doing at the time.
- At first post of this thread.
Any possibly relevant changes you have made to your game, system, or software before the issue occurred.
- No.
Where appropriate, additional symptoms, error messages, links to screenshots and crash dump files (see this FAQ entry).
Your system specifications in the form of a DxDiag report and vulkaninfo (see this FAQ entry).
- DxDiag - https://yadi.sk/d/baV1WGwEdtZv9Q
- Vulkaninfo - https://yadi.sk/i/NI7oEtUesRiWMw

It's all info, what you need? I do not good understand english.

[Red_Devil]

Did your system update to 1.30 during that 10 minute shut down? Is your game modified or have your saves been edited (ever)? Have you verified the Steam gamefiles cache since 1.30?

This problem i see still 1.10 to 1.30 versions. Problem finded at all this versions. And i was started new game at last 2-3 times in all versions of game. Game was do not modified. Gamefiles ware verified now. Yet same problem have.

UP.1: Before to version 1.10, this problem was not found.

UP.2: Just now, i tried launch game with english language. Yet same problem have.

[Red_Devil]

Up.3 Version 1.32. I did re install game, then delete all settings and saves from game, turn off cloud saves. Launched new game, saves, quit to desktop, launch game and ... can't did load game saves.

[Red_Devil]

Yes! I found a solution! I reproduced this error after several days of experiments! This is all because of the empire's own logo, which I uploaded to the folder with the logos. I reproduced the entire sequence of actions at the start of the game and saved almost after each mouse click, after which I tried to load the game.
Every time I changed the logo and saved, the game refused to load the game. I realized that it was precisely because of the logo and began to experiment with it. I had the original logo 550x550 pixels in .PNG format. After I squeezed the size of the logo to 450x450 pixels, I was able to load the save!
I also note that even in the game it is written that you can upload logos in various formats, but the game sees only the .PNG format. There is also no indication of what permission the logo should be. I could even upload a 4K image there.
So with the next patch, I would recommend fixing it.

[Alan Phipps]

It was indeed intended that different file format should work for player logos. What is possibly more important though is that the player logos were specifically intended to be a square with sides that are an exact power of two (eg 256x256 or 512x512, etc). Try your logo as 512x512 and also try different file formats at that size to see if they work. Good luck and let us know how you get on.

[timon37]

Can you send us the logo file (preferably both the version that doesn't work and works) and the savegames (also preferably one that works and one that doesn't).

[Red_Devil]

I found a problem. And as it turned out, it is not related to the resolution of the logo. I studied the question in more detail and found out that if there are Russian letters (Cyrillic) in the logo’s name in the logo folder, the game refuses to load. Those. I launched the game, chose as the logo, the name of which has Cyrillic, I saved everything. More this saving will not be able to load. Then I did the same thing, but with the logo, in the title of which, there are only English letters. And the game is quietly loading.

Logos are the same. Only the inscription on the logo itself is different (to distinguish one from the other in the game for testing). They also differ in name. One is called in Russian, the other in English.

All logos operations were made in the editor and the same source file was edited.
I also tested a lot of resolutions and formats. I had for testing the resolution: 450 * 450, 512 * 512, 550 * 550, 548 * 550, 718 * 777. All saves with these logos could be loaded. All names were in their numbers corresponding to the resolution. This is so that after changing the resolution of the logo in the editor, it is possible to distinguish them.

I did the same for the rest of the file formats. The game does not accept any format except .png.

Under the link there are 2 saves and 2 logos. Save save_005.xml corresponds to the logo with the name "English1". Accordingly, saving save_006.xml corresponds to the file with the name "Русский".
Saving "005" is loading. Saving "006" - no. The reason is described above.

https://yadi.sk/d/pjCerJ7n72yjzQ

[Red_Devil]

What is possibly more important though is that the player logos were specifically intended to be a square with sides that are an exact power of two (eg 256x256 or 512x512, etc). Try your logo as 512x512 and also try different file formats at that size to see if they work. Good luck and let us know how you get on.

Strange approach with a square logo. For some players, I am sure the logo has a more elongated, rectangular shape. And if you stretch it to the size of a square, then the geometry of the picture is broken and in some places it will be very stretched.
It would be better if the game would squeeze / stretch the image to the desired size while maintaining the aspect ratio.

[CBJ]

Er, no, you can't stretch an image onto a square panel on the ship while maintaining the aspect ratio. All you have to do is centre your logo onto a square image, and it will work fine.

[Red_Devil]

Er, no, you can't stretch an image onto a square panel on the ship while maintaining the aspect ratio. All you have to do is centre your logo onto a square image, and it will work fine.

No, I'm fine with the logo. I have a round logo