Author Topic: Game file go boom  (Read 1156 times)

Offline SerratedSabre

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Game file go boom
« on: July 09, 2012, 11:45:26 pm »
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.

Offline Darth Crater

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Re: Game file go boom
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2012, 01:32:34 am »
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.

Offline x4000

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Re: Game file go boom
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2012, 08:33:39 am »
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.
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