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Pioneer crashes when loading a saved game

(@spatrick)
Active Member

I’ve loved playing this game again but I’ve run into a major problem.

 

The game starts fine and plays well, but when I try to “continue” after exiting the game, or “load” a game, it crashes.  Not every time though.  The one single exception is I have a single saved game that will load.  I’ve played making frequent saves of progress and none, but that ONE saved game, will load without crashing Pioneer. 

 

Just to be clear, I can start a new game just fine.  The problem only exists with loading games.

 

I've tried re-downloading Pioneer and playing but I still get the same problem.  I tried making a copy of the good save, deleting the content (in Notepad) and pasting the content from another save, but that doesn't work either.  One thing I noticed is the good save file is very small while the bad ones are considerably larger.

 

I'm on a Windows 7, 64bit machine.

 

I would appreciate some help solving this as I’ve had a blast playing and I’d like to be able to save progress.  I’ll post a link to the good saved game and one that doesn’t load without crashing.  I'm hoping someone will try one of the bad files and see if it fails on their computer too.  That will indicate whether the file is bad or the issue is with my computer.

 

Here is the good save file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxX_0iO8AY36UjhKWnJsSEVJdzQ/view?usp=sharing

 

Here are several bad ones.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxX_0iO8AY36R2NYN0RER25MQ28/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxX_0iO8AY36dTVhS3Z5MW16T0k/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxX_0iO8AY36Tm9qUkRIVU1xTnM/view?usp=sharing

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Topic starter Posted : July 6, 2015 10:32
(@nozmajner)
Member

Hi

 

It's a known problem that put it's head up recently on windows. But thank's for reporting it anyway.

I'm guessing, your working save is from an earlier version, right?

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Posted : July 6, 2015 11:27
(@spatrick)
Active Member

No, it's not from an earlier version.  v. 20150701 -win32

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Topic starter Posted : July 6, 2015 11:48
(@nozmajner)
Member

Hmm, that gave me an idea. I tried, and it seems that if you save in an uninhabited system, then the save can be loaded. This might be helpful, thanks. 🙂

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Posted : July 6, 2015 12:15
(@spatrick)
Active Member

I just tried it.  Saving at an uninhabited system works!  I've now succeeded trying it several times while nothing else has worked.  Nice observation Nozmagner.

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Topic starter Posted : July 6, 2015 12:53
impaktor
(@impaktor)
Pioneer Moderator

From the issue tracker:

 

found a solution. I right clicked and went to property's and sit the compatibility to windows 7.

 

Is this fix universal for everyone experiencing this bug, I wonder?

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Posted : July 6, 2015 23:25
(@nozmajner)
Member

Win7 compatibility mode doesn't make any difference for me.

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Posted : July 7, 2015 01:54
(@spatrick)
Active Member

Me neither.  I tried Windows 7 and Vista compatibility modes with no success.

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Topic starter Posted : July 7, 2015 09:17
impaktor
(@impaktor)
Pioneer Moderator

This issue should be fixed in the latest release, 20150709.

 

(@Spatrick please let us know if this is not the case.)

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Posted : July 10, 2015 00:15
(@spatrick)
Active Member

I will.  Thanks.

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Topic starter Posted : July 11, 2015 16:53