crash when saving

kbuchanan · 05-10-2007, 09:13 AM

I searched the forum and sisn't see anything about the specific problem I am having. For the most part the game runs fine, but about 50% of the time when I exit the game it crashing during the save process. Also it crashes about 10-20% of the time on autosave. This is particualarly annoying when I am trying to sim overnight since I can't get more than 6 seasons at a time without crashing since I autosave once a year. Anybody have any ideas? The funny thing is it seems to do the same thing on my other computer so maybe it is some league setting that is the problem, because I just copied the same league file to my other computer to run test sims.

AMD Athlon 64 dual core 3200+
Windows XP fully patched
1g ram
150g hdd space available

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
Windows XP fully patched
512mb ram
15g hdd space available

kbuchanan · 05-11-2007, 08:48 AM

If anybody else is having this problem, I really think it has to do with Face Gen. I would notice that sometimes after the game crashes the game wont freezes at loading faces during startup. I check my faces.dat file and it is 0 bytes. If I replace that file with one from backup the game loads back up fine. So I went into the game yesterday and disabled face gen on both of my computers and let them run from the time I got home stoped them and tried to save several times and exited the game several times and my old computer did not crash at all. My newer computer continued to crash (they are both simulating a copy of the same league). I started them up and let them run over night and my old computer ran all night (only made it through 12 seasons which I thought I would get more than tha), but my newer computer got through 4 seasons and crashed.

One thing I noticed that maybe somebody can explain, if I watch the loading and saving on my older computer that seems to have stopped crashing It pauses for a bit at the loading/saving" and then at that point it used to go to loading/saving faces. I can see that it never says anything about faces anymore which is what I want. Even though I disable face gen on my newer computer as well it still loads/saves faces after messages and that is where it is crashing. Anybody have any idea how I can either remove all faces and completely not use that feature, or how I can fix saving faces from crashing my game?

Nutlaw · 05-20-2007, 11:01 AM

Are you seeing this problem after updating to the full version of patch 2?

Nutlaw · 05-27-2007, 10:25 AM

As there has been no reply to this thread in a week, it will be closed. If you need any further assistance with this issue, please ask a moderator to re-open the thread. Thanks.

05-10-2007, 09:13 AM	#1
kbuchanan Bat Boy Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 15	crash when saving I searched the forum and sisn't see anything about the specific problem I am having. For the most part the game runs fine, but about 50% of the time when I exit the game it crashing during the save process. Also it crashes about 10-20% of the time on autosave. This is particualarly annoying when I am trying to sim overnight since I can't get more than 6 seasons at a time without crashing since I autosave once a year. Anybody have any ideas? The funny thing is it seems to do the same thing on my other computer so maybe it is some league setting that is the problem, because I just copied the same league file to my other computer to run test sims. AMD Athlon 64 dual core 3200+ Windows XP fully patched 1g ram 150g hdd space available AMD Athlon XP 2000+ Windows XP fully patched 512mb ram 15g hdd space available

05-11-2007, 08:48 AM	#2
kbuchanan Bat Boy Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 15	If anybody else is having this problem, I really think it has to do with Face Gen. I would notice that sometimes after the game crashes the game wont freezes at loading faces during startup. I check my faces.dat file and it is 0 bytes. If I replace that file with one from backup the game loads back up fine. So I went into the game yesterday and disabled face gen on both of my computers and let them run from the time I got home stoped them and tried to save several times and exited the game several times and my old computer did not crash at all. My newer computer continued to crash (they are both simulating a copy of the same league). I started them up and let them run over night and my old computer ran all night (only made it through 12 seasons which I thought I would get more than tha), but my newer computer got through 4 seasons and crashed. One thing I noticed that maybe somebody can explain, if I watch the loading and saving on my older computer that seems to have stopped crashing It pauses for a bit at the loading/saving" and then at that point it used to go to loading/saving faces. I can see that it never says anything about faces anymore which is what I want. Even though I disable face gen on my newer computer as well it still loads/saves faces after messages and that is where it is crashing. Anybody have any idea how I can either remove all faces and completely not use that feature, or how I can fix saving faces from crashing my game?

05-20-2007, 11:01 AM	#3
Nutlaw Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 9,538	Are you seeing this problem after updating to the full version of patch 2?

05-27-2007, 10:25 AM	#4
Nutlaw Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 9,538	As there has been no reply to this thread in a week, it will be closed. If you need any further assistance with this issue, please ask a moderator to re-open the thread. Thanks.