Had a power outage during playing, world cannot load

[Reactorcore]

As the title says, I was playing AVWW when suddenly power went down in my house. Everything went dark and AVWW was terminated abruptly in the process.

After the power came back, I tried playing AVWW again, but first it complained about the lock.dat file because the game was closed so abruptly (everything got shut down in my house just like that), so I went ahead and did as the instructions told me to and deleted that said file. I closed AVWW before doing so.

Next I run AVWW once again after deleting that lock.dat file and attempt to load the world. I get this: (Screenshot)

http://i47.tinypic.com/kcbkht.jpg

I also attached the UnhandledErrors.txt below. Up until this incident, the game worked flawlessly so far.

[RayneProwler]

I would go ahead and zip up your world file and let them have a look at it but it might be the same thing that happened to me where your world.dat file went blank after it was accessing something in it at the time of the power failure.

[Reactorcore]

Alright, here it is, taken from the Worlds folder in its entirety.

[RayneProwler]

Well I checked and your world.dat file, and it wasn't like mine where the file was completely empty so maybe someone who can check it out for you can get around to that. Hopefully you have a recent back up you can try to load up and see if that works for you too.

[Reactorcore]

Welp, I ended up deleting my old world completely and starting anew, but this message always stays open the entire time:



I can now play just fine, but that massive error message persists in the upper right corner the whole time and doesn't go away.
Even disabling the chat console in the option does nothing.

It seems I'll have to reinstall AVWW completely, hold my breath and cross my fingers that I wouldn't have another power outage while I'm playing it.

[keith.lamothe]

Welp, I ended up deleting my old world completely and starting anew, but this message always stays open the entire time:



I can now play just fine, but that massive error message persists in the upper right corner the whole time and doesn't go away.
Even disabling the chat console in the option does nothing.

It seems I'll have to reinstall AVWW completely, hold my breath and cross my fingers that I wouldn't have another power outage while I'm playing it.

I'm sorry about the problems you're encountering; it does make sense that a power outage in the middle of a write could cause a problem, and is one reason backing up your world is a good idea.  There's also some redundancy built in to how it writes files but it's possible there's some problem with those or the power outage caused a more fundamental failure that could not be avoided.

But none of that would explain why you'd be getting some other error in an entirely new world.  Do you have the error txt files from the RuntimeData folder inside your game folder that the error message mentions?  If you give me those I could possibly find out what happened and fix it.

Thanks   Sorry again about the troubles.

[Reactorcore]

What about the file I attached to the OP?

[keith.lamothe]

What about the file I attached to the OP?

That tells me a little about the error you encountered when loading the world that got corrupted as a result of the power outage.  It tells me nothing about why you're getting this error message playing some other world.  If you start the application (and, if no error, start a new world) and get that error message, then grab your ArcenDebugLog.txt and UnhandledErrors.txt files and post them here, please