SAVE KILLING BUG!

all my savegames are getting killed!

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There is a major bug that is killing all my savegames. Every time I try to load a game the game crashes. I've lost 6 games that way.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I've had a similar problem with corrupted saves.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
It seems that I read in another thread, that if you have been making ships obsolete, then that might be your problem. Something to do with what the game has and what it thinks it has.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I am having the same problem. It always happens when the game freezes for no particular reason. The only way to exit the frozen game is to press the power switch on the PC. After rebooting and reloading the game the saves will not load. Neither the latest or the previous autosave will load. I have lost 6 games that i had come close to finishing with total domination. I hope the next beta will address this problem. This all seems to tie in with the fact that ships which were designed in previous games show up even if you do not have the techs to build them yet. If you build one you get it in the very next turn. If you make them obsolete the game crashes in a couple of moves and will not reload from the save or the previous save.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I have lost 6 games that i had come close to finishing with total domination

Yeah.. I noticed that too.. The moment I come close to a victory the game crashes and all save games are corrupt.. I doubt it's a bug tho, the developers did that on purpose.....
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Let me add my 2 cents to this... I have the same exact problem... the part that gets me is how did the previous saves become corrupted? I was loading them up just fine.. the game crashes and now every single saved game causes an exception? Wierd.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I have lost 6 games that i had come close to finishing with total domination


When ever I lost a game, I hadn't even come out of my quadrent of the galaxy. I have been creating and obsoleting a lot of ships however. I'll try play a game without Obsoleting my ships.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I think this is related to both:
a) Obsoleting Ships
b) Upgrading Ships

Try playing a game where every ship design is a new "from scratch" design. Never obsolete, never upgrade. It sucks, but it may work.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes this work around seems to work, but I hope that this will be fixed soon
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Same problem with the latest version.
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
There is a similar problem I ran into, but it was reloading a save game onto itself. If you are playing the game and for what ever reason you decide to reload the last save, the game makes extra copies of some of the files and adds them to the existing game file. Then the next time it happens it does it again. At one point I had a save game file over 26 megs in the 4c beta.

I tested thios out in 4d and it is even worse. I play on a gigantic map that has a starting file of around 8 megs. If it starts to copy itself due to reloading the game either crashes on the first or second reload now.

Sabre21
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
There is a similar problem I ran into, but it was reloading a save game onto itself. If you are playing the game and for what ever reason you decide to reload the last save, the game makes extra copies of some of the files and adds them to the existing game file. Then the next time it happens it does it again. At one point I had a save game file over 26 megs in the 4c beta.

I tested thios out in 4d and it is even worse. I play on a gigantic map that has a starting file of around 8 megs. If it starts to copy itself due to reloading the game either crashes on the first or second reload now.

Sabre21