Historical League keeps corrupting!

[nhulse19]

I’ve had two leagues about 15 years in that have randomly just stopped working. Both of them started in 1976 and stopped working around 93-94. The first one wouldn’t even let me open and said file is corrupt. The second time I actually did a backup a couple seasons before it broke but the backup is also apparently corrupt. This second league however lets me open it, but it won’t let me do anything, if I try and do anything it freezes and closes and if I hover over player names it shows different people and they’re all 102 years old. Any solutions?

[nhulse19]

I've been attempting to upload my files but i can't get it to work. any help at all?

[Lukas Berger]

The first thing to try would be to restore from the game's autosave.

To restore from the automatic backup, do the following:

1) Open the game and on the start screen, click on Settings (or Preferences in OOTP 11-14).

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.

Let me know how that goes and if it works for you.

[Lukas Berger]

Just to provide you with some info that might help prevent a reoccurance in the future, 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 I just mention them to give you some more info that might help prevent this from happening again.

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.