autosave gone bad (bug?)

Spoo · #1 June 17th, 2002, 06:49 AM

Newest Version of GOLD, running Derek's mod. I had auto turn set to every turn. A couple of turns into the game (simultatious move) the turn processing getts real slow. I give up on the game. Later I find my computer has to think for a good while to open the SEIV directory w/ explorer. I find that the porblem is that I have 19,000+ files in my savegame folder taking up 132 meg! They all appear to be from this same game. I destroyed the evidence (deleted them all) to free up all that wasted space. Has anyone seen anything like this before?

tesco samoa · #2 June 17th, 2002, 08:52 PM

No.

See if you can recreate the problem. If you dare... Also scan for melissa with the latest virus software ....

you should have 1 file with *.pl001 or something
a *.gam
and the text files for stats and the combat file ( am i missing anything ??)

Bman · #3 June 17th, 2002, 09:28 PM

Do a search of the forums. I remember someone else having a problem like this. I do not know if they ever found the cause.

Edit: Here it is:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=004945

Problem attributed to a debugging Version of a windows library on win2k. Reinstallation of Win2k sp2 fixed the problem.

[ June 17, 2002, 20:30: Message edited by: Bman ]

Spoo · #4 June 18th, 2002, 02:44 AM

It says the topic doesn't exist. Thanks for the info anyway.

Bman · #5 June 18th, 2002, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Spoo:
It says the topic doesn't exist. Thanks for the info anyway.

That's wierd. It existed yesterday. I just did a search again and it showed up in the search (search for: thousands files) But when I click on the links returned by the search I get topics not found. *shrug* I dunno what is wrong.

[ June 18, 2002, 14:22: Message edited by: Bman ]

geoschmo · #6 June 18th, 2002, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bman:
That's wierd. It existed yesterday. I just did a search again and it showed up in the search (search for: thousands files) But when I click on the links returned by the search I get topics not found. *shrug* I dunno what is wrong.

What has happened is the thread has been moved to the "Classic threads" forum, here's the link...

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=59;t=000007

Apparently the search engine is still pointing to it's old location for some reason.

Geoschmo

Spoo · #7 June 18th, 2002, 06:49 PM

Hmm... That's exactly what I saw. Now I know what the problem is.