corrupted game file

[Armchair Athlete]

Aaaagggghh Is there any way at all to stop or at least reduce the chance of the game file becoming corrupted? Its really starting to pee me off, I cant play a single game without the file becoming corrupted and the Kings influence jumping around all over the place for no reason at all. I thought it was because of too much saving and overwriting the file so I have played several games without any saves at all, and the exact same thing happens (before even approaching 60% of the map owned)- Kings influence jumps around for no reason at all (latest game, moving from 9 to 1 when no action took place at all)and often causes a civil war. I sure hope CA fixes this for RTW because at the moment its making the game pretty much unplayable

[motorhead]

What version of the game are you on? do you use any of the cheatcodes or run in debug mode (-ian) with any regularity? I don't see a groundswell of complaints about corrupted savegames or CTDs so I don't think the problems are widespread. I haven't had any problem in over a year.

[HicRic]

Hmm...well, if you're having problems along those lines very often it might be worth wiping your system clean of MTW/VI and re-installing it and then installing the lastest patch.

[solypsist]

try to quicksave (CTRL S) while in the ga,me before exiting and saving as normal. this creates a temp backup savegame that should be accessable should your file get corrupt again.

but I agree with HicRic's suggestion of a full reinstall with updates.

[Armchair Athlete]

OK thanks guys I'll try the reinstall with updates and see how that works

[Red Harvest]

With regards to corruptions. Unless there is some sort of bug with your install, or system set up, there is a simple soloution: ONLY save at the beginning of each turn before you move any pieces. Never save mid turn or at the end of a turn. I have not had ANY corruptions since I adopted this practice. I've played dozens of campaigns since then. I had plenty of corruptions before.

I know this sounds backwards, we all want to save those long series of moves we make, right? It's more efficient, right? That's what I thought too, but I noticed a pattern of corruptions when I did it that way.

I suspect that there are some interface bugs that creep in when you save late in a turn. The more stuff you have to move (late in a game), the more likely a corruption is. The end turn cleans up the short term problems/corruptions if there were no intermediate saves, but for some reason late turn saves seem to write some erroneous info that doesn't always clear.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Problem:

Game crashes on attempt to exit to the main menu or upon an event report.

or;

How to prevent corrupt savefiles.

Solution:

http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin....t=16956

(Look for the reply of yours faithfully. Yes, autosave does cause trouble)
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Hth