Uh oh, this is not good...

[wfborges]

After going 115-47 with the 2023 Padres and winning the World Series from three games down to Cleveland, and after checking that the annual awards had recorded properly, I saved the game.

When the game reloaded, the team-based information was still accurate (acquired players were on the team), but it was as if I had never played the 2023 season. Apparently, the program had discarded my results and substituted the results of a simmed season with Tampa Bay winning and all awards listed from the simmed game.

I suspect that my attempt to head off expansion may have had something to do with this. I am going to restart the 2023 season, but this is disappointing because the WS comeback was perhaps my best OOTP experience ever.

That's the bug report, and I will try to load the game file. But I also want to mention that I think you should restore the international leagues, even if by update. Japanese and Mexican leagues have been my key sources for players over the years.

[Lukas Berger]

Sorry that happened!

It seems like this may be the result of a corrupt save file.

You might be able to restore this from the auto-backup feature.



To restore from the automatic backup, do the following:

1) Open the game and on the start screen, click on Settings.

2) Now click on the tab "Troubleshooting".

3) Click "Open folder containing saved games".

4) Now open up the league folder you're wanting to restore.

5) Then select all of the .dat files in the folder and back them up (just in case) by copying them to a temporary folder or creating a zipped file with them

6) Open the folder called "auto-save".

7) In there, select all of the ".dat" files and copy them to the league folder (the parent of the current folder) overwriting all of the ".dat" files in the league folder.

8) Now start the game and load your league.


That won't necessarily stop this from happening again though.

Unfortunately, this is typically caused by something on your system, it's not something that comes from the game itself. So not the result of a bug f.e.

There are a few things that can cause corruption. This potentially includes unexpected system shutdowns or crashes while a league is saving, bad sectors on the hard drive the game is saved to, memory glitches on your computer (especially possible if the league is left open for very long periods of time without the game being shut down or restarted) or interference from other programs, especially disk cleaners or anti-virus programs.

Some of what you might do to prevent that from coming up again would be to regularly defrag your hard drive as well as check it for errors, don't leave OOTP open and running with a league loaded overnight or for long periods when you are not actually using the game, make sure to shut your computer off or at least restart it occasionally and also run as few other programs in the background at the same time as OOTP as possible. For programs that need to be running at the same time, like an anti-virus or firewall, it's a good idea to add OOTP to their whitelist and to create an exception for OOTP's directories if you use some sort of automated disk cleaner.