I have a problem that only happens on certain saved games. Sometimes
when I try to save the game, the game crashes, and sometimes it saves
without crashing, but then I cannot load that saved game. It seems
to stem from some corruption of a particular game since my roomate
and I maintain seperate save game slots and while I cannot save, he can.
(Although he had this problem with his first character, he suffers no
more) It seems to be related to Mage guild quests as in both of our
cases the problem started when we saved the game after receiving a mage
guild quest. I patched the game with 179 from the copy I purchased
this week, does anyone else have this problem? Bugs like getting
stuck in walls and falling through floors I can handle, but having
to restart now 3 times due to inability to save the damn game is
making me very very pissed.
Did Bethesda actually test this game at all???
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Michael L Jacobs mja...@iastate.edu
I have had the same thing happen to me several times. When I try to
reload the game, a message comes up saying something like--you drop to
the ground from exhaustion. If I go into my save game in the daggerfall
directory, most of the files aren't there, including savetree. So there
is no way to recover that saved game. I have never noticed if there is a
pattern to these crashes (mage guild quests etc.) but I did have one in
a dungeon during a main quest. There are also two people playing on my
machine, and he has never had this problem. Out of the six save game
slots, this only seems to happen on two of them. I don't think there is
a solution to the problem, as the crashes seem random. It's a real pain
when you only have access to three save game slots and you have to use
two in the dungeons just in case you crash while saving. Hopefully, this
is one of the problems Bethesda is working on.
Robyn
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, Robyn Stephens <fde...@bconnex.net>
wrote:
>I have had the same thing happen to me several times. When I try to
>reload the game, a message comes up saying something like--you drop to
>the ground from exhaustion. If I go into my save game in the daggerfall
>directory, most of the files aren't there, including savetree. So there
>is no way to recover that saved game. I have never noticed if there is a
>pattern to these crashes (mage guild quests etc.) but I did have one in
>a dungeon during a main quest. There are also two people playing on my
>machine, and he has never had this problem. Out of the six save game
>slots, this only seems to happen on two of them. I don't think there is
>a solution to the problem, as the crashes seem random. It's a real pain
>when you only have access to three save game slots and you have to use
>two in the dungeons just in case you crash while saving. Hopefully, this
>is one of the problems Bethesda is working on.
No idea if this will work (I haven't run into this particular
problem), but have you tried deleting ALL the files in the directories
for those bad save game slots?
That might get rid of whatever is corrupted and let you start using
those slots again.
When you start the game, there are no files in a save game slot until
you actually use it, so clearing all the files should just put the
slot back to it's original condition.
Also, how are you fixed for free disk space? I've noticed that those
save game directories keep taking up more and more space the longer
you play the game - wonder if that could be causing any problems?
(Just a wild guess, in case you hadn't looked into this already...)
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Nick
That sounds like a good idea. I'll try it and see if it works.
> Also, how are you fixed for free disk space? I've noticed that those
> save game directories keep taking up more and more space the longer
> you play the game - wonder if that could be causing any problems?
> (Just a wild guess, in case you hadn't looked into this already...)
>
> --
> Nick
154mb free space on that drive so I don't think that is the problem
Robyn