Game file go boom

[SerratedSabre]

First off, I admit my computer isn't the most stable one I've had. It hard crashes for no reason every once in a while. Twice while playing AVWW. The first time it happened, after restarting my computer and reloading my file, it gave the "fatal error has occured, restart your game" etc, so I did, no harm done.

Second time, same message, except the file won't load. It just stays at the title screen, and any further attempts makes the game think I'm trying to open a second instance, which of course the game won't allow. Is this an issue with the current version, is the file just simply corrupted?

As a side note, other files work fine.

[Darth Crater]

Go into your world folder and see if there's a 0kb file called "lock.dat".  If so, delete it, and your world should load again.

[x4000]

When it reports a fatal error, that's definitely a danger sign. Either a bug that we need to fix, or worse a case of the computer crashing as you describe while it was in the middle of saving the game. It is likely you have a half-written world file if it won't load at all, meaning you'd need to go back to your most recent backup unfortunately.