unspecific error encountered

**Slug For A Butt** · 04-03-2007, 19:41

@Shadow. How old is the hard drive? The reason I ask is that I used to get this exact same problem all the time.And it always seemed to happen when the game was saving to the hard drive e.g. saving game or end turn.
I had a really old hard drive for my OS(about 6 yr old

). I installed a new drive with all the other exact same hardware and it NEVER happened since.
Just a thought.

**Shadow** · 04-04-2007, 03:05

He just bought his hard drive two weeks ago so i think it should not be the problem. I think i will ask him to try reinstalling to see if there is any chance.

**tomski** · 04-04-2007, 12:07

hi guys, i to have this problem its only just started on some battles.

i have a advent 7016 laptop with 512 ram just installed. why as this just started, is it because i use the cheat mode on occassions?? i am new to this . but i will try re instaling, is it safe to delete the sega file.

**Shadow** · 04-05-2007, 03:29

Reinstalled and it didn't work, so i guess this is the last straw. Unless someone has other ideas.

**Foz** · 04-05-2007, 04:07

Originally Posted by Shadow

Reinstalled and it didn't work, so i guess this is the last straw. Unless someone has other ideas.

I'll keep thinking on it and see if I come up with anything... but at the least the 1.2 patch is due out tomorrow, so you can have him download and install that, it may fix the problem.

It's also possible he hit the elephant unit bug - someone else on the thread was reporting that it's possible to make your game entirely unplayable if you hit the elephant bug. It wasn't always making it unplayable forever, but sometimes gave that result. It must corrupt something vital in the registry is the theory. The workaround was to create a new user account, and begin running the game from there. Apparently each time it happens you can make a new account and continue playing with that one until it happens again. So that'd be the other great suggestion of the moment, to have him create a new user just to play the game with (don't bother personalizing it since you only need it to run the game) and see if that sets things right for the moment.