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NYJuggalo45 · 06-19-2004, 10:22 AM

posted this on the "temp" forums but got no response, hoping someone can answer me now that we seem to be up and running again
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I'm hoping someone can help me out here...I am having a fairly major crash problem. I spoke to Shane Orr via e-mail about the problem and he suggested I post the problem here, so here are the copies of the e-mails I sent to him and his response. Since it will be asked, I am on Windows NT, running Ootp 6.01 patch, and have a Pent III with plenty of ram. The problem only exists in my Historical League and not in all my OOTP leagues, so I am fairly certain it's not the game, but the league itself. Here are the e-mails, any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Shane,

I know your a seasoned vet with ootp, and i'm hoping you might be able to help me.

First here's my problem. I'm running a historical league and for the 2nd time now I've gotten the same problem. The league starts up fine (using Ankit's DB) and I get thru a number of seasons with no problem. I started both leagues in 1901, but did it differently than real life history, creating 30 teams (ala current day MLB) and held a fantasy draft. Then everything proceeds as normal, with rookie drafts rather than assigning players to real teams. The 1st time I got thru 1908, the 2nd time thru 1911. Both times, for some unexplainable reason, the game crashes. It happens right after spring training, when the league goes back to the standings page with all teams being 0-0. The crash occurs when you click on any of the teams. I can go to league setup, almanac, etc...but clicking on any team either from the league standings page or from the teams pulldown menu causes a fatal error and a game crash. I do nothing different from the previous seasons (from 1901 up until the game crashes), so this is why I am so confused, because everything ran fine for a number of seasons. The other odditiy is that it only affects the historical league, my 3 other leagues (maelstrom, fbbl, and a fictional solo league) all run fine. And, before you ask, I backup my league every season, and even the backup suffers from the same crashing problem. Also, I tried creating a new league and copying all the files from the historical league to the new league and same problem persists.

Now, normally I would post this problem on the ootp forums, but they have been down for quite awhile and i'm getting fed up losing my historical league and all the many hours of work I have put into it.

So, I'm hoping you can help me out by answering one or more of the following questions.

1. Any idea what the problem is and how to correct it?
2. Any idea if the servers are still up so I can re-download ootp, a patch, something?
3. Do you have the address of the servers if they are up, as both the forums and main site are both down?
4. Any idea how I can get in contact with the technical service dept, Steve Kuffrey, Henry, etc?

Really hope you can help me out here, and any help would be greatly appreciated. Not sure if you ever check out the dynasty forums on the ootp site, but I put a ton of work into my dynasties, and twice now all that hard work, all the reports I've typed up, etc, have all basically gone to waste. Thanks in advance

Mike
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I checked out all the files and found another oddity, maybe this will help in the "fix". The players.dat, messages.dat and trade.dat files all still exist, but all are blank (0 kb). No idea why or how this happened.

mike

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I've been brainstorming on your problems, but I dont' really have an answer. I only know of a few things that will cause OOTP to crash, but none of them result in 0 KB or even corrupted files like you have. Unfortunately, the servers are still down. Hopefully they will be back up sometime this weekend. You can find a temporary/test board here: http://www.ootp-online.com/board/ to post your question on though. Once the new board is up the info will be lost, but until then maybe someone will answer your question.

06-19-2004, 10:22 AM	#1
NYJuggalo45 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 2,045	major crash bug posted this on the "temp" forums but got no response, hoping someone can answer me now that we seem to be up and running again ---------------------------------------------------------- I'm hoping someone can help me out here...I am having a fairly major crash problem. I spoke to Shane Orr via e-mail about the problem and he suggested I post the problem here, so here are the copies of the e-mails I sent to him and his response. Since it will be asked, I am on Windows NT, running Ootp 6.01 patch, and have a Pent III with plenty of ram. The problem only exists in my Historical League and not in all my OOTP leagues, so I am fairly certain it's not the game, but the league itself. Here are the e-mails, any help will be greatly appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shane, I know your a seasoned vet with ootp, and i'm hoping you might be able to help me. First here's my problem. I'm running a historical league and for the 2nd time now I've gotten the same problem. The league starts up fine (using Ankit's DB) and I get thru a number of seasons with no problem. I started both leagues in 1901, but did it differently than real life history, creating 30 teams (ala current day MLB) and held a fantasy draft. Then everything proceeds as normal, with rookie drafts rather than assigning players to real teams. The 1st time I got thru 1908, the 2nd time thru 1911. Both times, for some unexplainable reason, the game crashes. It happens right after spring training, when the league goes back to the standings page with all teams being 0-0. The crash occurs when you click on any of the teams. I can go to league setup, almanac, etc...but clicking on any team either from the league standings page or from the teams pulldown menu causes a fatal error and a game crash. I do nothing different from the previous seasons (from 1901 up until the game crashes), so this is why I am so confused, because everything ran fine for a number of seasons. The other odditiy is that it only affects the historical league, my 3 other leagues (maelstrom, fbbl, and a fictional solo league) all run fine. And, before you ask, I backup my league every season, and even the backup suffers from the same crashing problem. Also, I tried creating a new league and copying all the files from the historical league to the new league and same problem persists. Now, normally I would post this problem on the ootp forums, but they have been down for quite awhile and i'm getting fed up losing my historical league and all the many hours of work I have put into it. So, I'm hoping you can help me out by answering one or more of the following questions. 1. Any idea what the problem is and how to correct it? 2. Any idea if the servers are still up so I can re-download ootp, a patch, something? 3. Do you have the address of the servers if they are up, as both the forums and main site are both down? 4. Any idea how I can get in contact with the technical service dept, Steve Kuffrey, Henry, etc? Really hope you can help me out here, and any help would be greatly appreciated. Not sure if you ever check out the dynasty forums on the ootp site, but I put a ton of work into my dynasties, and twice now all that hard work, all the reports I've typed up, etc, have all basically gone to waste. Thanks in advance Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------- I checked out all the files and found another oddity, maybe this will help in the "fix". The players.dat, messages.dat and trade.dat files all still exist, but all are blank (0 kb). No idea why or how this happened. mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I've been brainstorming on your problems, but I dont' really have an answer. I only know of a few things that will cause OOTP to crash, but none of them result in 0 KB or even corrupted files like you have. Unfortunately, the servers are still down. Hopefully they will be back up sometime this weekend. You can find a temporary/test board here: http://www.ootp-online.com/board/ to post your question on though. Once the new board is up the info will be lost, but until then maybe someone will answer your question. __________________ This space for rent