Help please - error with game

Jason2 · #1 October 17th, 2001, 04:17 PM

Please bear with me, I'm sure this has been answered before, but couldn't find it:

I just got a new laptop and installed SEIV and then downloaded the current patch and modpack. Loaded it all up and then on the second turn, with my first colony ship I get:

Range check error (er... maybe Range index...) everytime I try to move it to a warp point. The game then crashes. Argh!

I have tried this 3 times and can't get it to work - what do I do?!?!

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My system is Windows ME (didn't know if that mattered)

Thank you!

Jason2

Suicide Junkie · #2 October 17th, 2001, 04:51 PM

What modpack would that be? TDM?
What happens if you have your ship wait a turn before proceeding?

If the error only occurs when your ship tries to warp, it could be a corrupted map, with the destination of the warppoint not falling inside a system.

In any event, post the savegame, and we'll find your problem.

LLB · #3 October 18th, 2001, 01:19 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Jason2:
Please bear with me, I'm sure this has been answered before, but couldn't find it:

I just got a new laptop and installed SEIV and then downloaded the current patch and modpack. Loaded it all up and then on the second turn, with my first colony ship I get:

Range check error (er... maybe Range index...) everytime I try to move it to a warp point. The game then crashes. Argh!

I have tried this 3 times and can't get it to work - what do I do?!?! (

My system is Windows ME (didn't know if that mattered)

Thank you!

Jason2

This sounds exactly like the bug I reported on the "Any More Bugs?" thread. In my case I get the same crash if I try to move the ship anywhere (not just to a warp point), it happens with no mods installed (ver. 1.41), and with any savegame file I've tried -- including games started on the laptop. On games started on the laptop, the game runs normally until I build my first ship and try to move it, then I get a "Range Check Error" and the game crashes.

Jason2 · #4 October 19th, 2001, 01:52 AM

Did you solve this? This is exactly the problem. I have uninstalled and re-installed and cannot move ANY ships ANYWHERE ! The game is unplayable!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am in total SEIV withdrawal - HELP!

Jason2

How do I load a saved game to the forum for you to look at???

Suicide Junkie · #5 October 19th, 2001, 02:04 AM

When you're typing a post, right below your password box is an attachment box.
Don't fill in anything there, but click the link right beside it "Upload your files"

Enter your Login/Password if required, and browse to your files.
Click "upload", and wait
The "file upload manager" window will eventually go to a blank white box, or say "upload successful" once that happens, your upload is successful, and you can close the manager.

The attachment field will read something like "437214.txt". This is GOOD, don't change it. That text file lists all of the various files to include in your post.

When you post, there'll be file icons down the right side of your text.

LLB · #6 October 19th, 2001, 02:21 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Jason2:
Did you solve this? This is exactly the problem. I have uninstalled and re-installed and cannot move ANY ships ANYWHERE ! The game is unplayable!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am in total SEIV withdrawal - HELP!

Jason2

How do I load a saved game to the forum for you to look at???

Sorry Jason, I don't have a solution yet. I've tried all the obvious things I could think of and I reported the problem to Aaron at MM about 2 months ago. He requested a savegame file (which I sent him), and I haven't heard since. Maybe Suicide_Junkie can help us both :-).

LLB

fredgorch · #7 October 20th, 2001, 12:17 AM

I had the same problem, with my new system using Windows ME. The good news is, I "think" its solved. Reinstall the game, then shut down using "hibernate". I did this, and everything seems to be working fine now. Hopefully this can be fixed in an upcoming patch.

fredgorch · #8 October 20th, 2001, 12:19 AM

Oops sorry, I meant first uninstall, then shut down using "shutdown", then reinstall, and subsequently shut down your system using "hibernate".

LLB · #9 October 20th, 2001, 02:02 AM

quote:
Originally posted by fredgorch:
Oops sorry, I meant first uninstall, then shut down using "shutdown", then reinstall, and subsequently shut down your system using "hibernate".

I tried the uninstall/reinstall dance with no joy. I got the impression from Jason2's Posts that he had too. (I don't see what the hibernate shut-down would contribute to a potential solution, so I'm a bit dubious about that step.)

Maybe we don't have quite the same problem, or maybe I'm just missing something.

L.

fredgorch · #10 October 20th, 2001, 07:41 PM

We very well may not have had the same problem. But......I uninstalled and reinstalled at least 10 times, with all different variation of no patch, 1.35 patch, 1.41 patch, TDM Modpack 1.71, 1.80. What I noted was that if I uninstalled, then shut down, then reinstalled, the game ran fine, for hours, until I shut down. Then I got the range check errors when I loaded a save game, or when I started a new game. So I thought maybe I just had to leave the computer on forever in order to play. It also made me think that possibly there was some setting stored when I shut down that was causing the range check error. In fact, Win ME has a hidden file on the C drive (forget the name right now, its not backup but its something like that, maybe restore?) that isn't present on Win 98. In any event, I can play now so long as I shut down with hibernate.