Game is basically blank

[dward1]

Opened up the save game that was fine last night and all the teams are gone







this is devastating as I cannot restore from save as this is the save and I hadn't backed up since a major expansion to a very intricate universe that I've sunk thousands of hours into. This is year 56 in a universe with like 30 competitions and customized schedules/uniforms/etc

[dward1]

I simmed a game and it sort of worked, but every recap still missed the team name...everywhere there should be a team name there is just blanks

[dward1]

this is OOTP 21

[Lukas Berger]

This can happen if the league file is corrupted somehow.

You may be able to restore from the autosave function. Instructions on doing that follow:

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.

[Lukas Berger]

For future reference, there are a few things that can cause corruption. This potentially includes unexpected system shutdowns or crashes especially 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 occasionally interference from other programs.

So it's impossible to say which of those issues caused the problem, but 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, make sure to occasionally shut your computer off or at least restart it 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 exclude OOTP and its data folders from any disk cleaners or similar programs. This is a pretty important step, as it's probably where 95% of the issues with league corruption come from. Basically, any programs that can change or delete files on their own, without asking you about it, you'll want to have them steer clear of any OOTP files and folders.

[dward1]

I understand all this, why I posted that it didn't work

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by dward1

I understand all this, why I posted that it didn't work

If that didn't work, then unfortunately there's probably not much to do other than revert to your most recent backup

[dward1]

damn