Greetings Baseball Loving Brothers. I am NEW with a question

slthree · 10-11-2012, 09:00 PM

First, I'm a former ball player from way back (as I'm sure many of you are). I come from the PS3 world and have loved playing MLB TheShow.

That being said, I don't know that I'll ever play that game again because I am unhealthily addicted to this game!

However, I am having problems loading saved games. I have literally lost every game I have started and saved due to not being able to load when I come back to play more. (And, I have spent hours just in set up and drafting alone)Oh my Lord, some of the teams I've built, just to have to re start

Anyway, I sent an email to the developer but maybe you guys can handle this one. Here's the most recent error message I'm getting:

"An error occurred while loading the database! Could not load players file"

By the way, I did search but didn't find a match for that message.

Thank you for listening and an even bigger thank you to anyone who gets me up and running!

OBSL Commish · 10-11-2012, 09:23 PM

Welcome, fellow former ballplayer and future OOTP junkie! It sounds like the players.dat file may be corrupted. Either that, or the Master.csv file is not being loaded. In your OOTP 13 folder within your My Documents folder, check to see that you have a players.dat file and a Master.csv file. If either one are missing from the OOTP 13 folder, then that's probably your problem.

slthree · 10-11-2012, 09:46 PM

Thanks for the lightning quick reply.

I didn't even know there were OOTP files in the "My Documents" folder. But, I did find them.

And, your initial instinct was dead on. Neither of the two files you reference are within the OOTP13 folder.

This begs 2 questions:

Why aren't they there?
How do I correct this?

Quote:

Originally Posted by OBSL Commish

Welcome, fellow former ballplayer and future OOTP junkie! It sounds like the players.dat file may be corrupted. Either that, or the Master.csv file is not being loaded. In your OOTP 13 folder within your My Documents folder, check to see that you have a players.dat file and a Master.csv file. If either one are missing from the OOTP 13 folder, then that's probably your problem.

OBSL Commish · 10-11-2012, 09:54 PM

Both files should have been created when you installed OOTP. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the game. That should create those files. And don't delete any leagues you have created. They will be available to you when the game is reinstalled.

slthree · 10-11-2012, 09:58 PM

Should I uninstall through OOTP or through Control Panel Uninstall? Sorry for the noob question but I don't want to make a mistake?

Quote:

Originally Posted by OBSL Commish

Both files should have been created when you installed OOTP. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the game. That should create those files. And don't delete any leagues you have created. They will be available to you when the game is reinstalled.

OBSL Commish · 10-11-2012, 10:02 PM

Either way should be fine.

slthree · 10-11-2012, 10:37 PM

Well, I went from giddy to deflated in mere minutes

Did a new install from the OOTP homepage

From Home screen I tried to load the season and I got the exact same message

Closed out and went back to the "My Documents" folder then the "OOTP13" folder. Those same 2 files you referenced earlier were STILL NOT THERE

Now what?

BTW, I really appreciate the help

OBSL Commish · 10-11-2012, 10:51 PM

What version of the game are you using? Is it the latest version -- 13.8.30? If not, try downloading the latest patch from the General Discussions board here and see if that helps. The players.dat file should be there when you create the game. It's a universal file that your leagues will use so there's no reason for it not to show up. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas. All I can suggest if this fails is to submit a support ticket to OOTP.

RchW · 10-11-2012, 11:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OBSL Commish

What version of the game are you using? Is it the latest version -- 13.8.30? If not, try downloading the latest patch from the General Discussions board here and see if that helps. The players.dat file should be there when you create the game. It's a universal file that your leagues will use so there's no reason for it not to show up. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas. All I can suggest if this fails is to submit a support ticket to OOTP.

I'm a little confused. I have a player.dat file for each league in the data\saved\ games\league name.lg folder. The Master.csv file is in data\stats folder

RchW · 10-11-2012, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slthree

Well, I went from giddy to deflated in mere minutes

Did a new install from the OOTP homepage

From Home screen I tried to load the season and I got the exact same message

Closed out and went back to the "My Documents" folder then the "OOTP13" folder. Those same 2 files you referenced earlier were STILL NOT THERE

Now what?

BTW, I really appreciate the help

Did you do a standard or custom install?

slthree · 10-11-2012, 11:45 PM

Standard

Quote:

Originally Posted by RchW

Did you do a standard or custom install?

slthree · 10-11-2012, 11:46 PM

The version number at thebottom is 13.8 Build 30

Quote:

Originally Posted by OBSL Commish

What version of the game are you using? Is it the latest version -- 13.8.30? If not, try downloading the latest patch from the General Discussions board here and see if that helps. The players.dat file should be there when you create the game. It's a universal file that your leagues will use so there's no reason for it not to show up. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas. All I can suggest if this fails is to submit a support ticket to OOTP.

OBSL Commish · 10-11-2012, 11:49 PM

Okay good. Now I apologize. I may have been wrong about where your players.dat file is located. There may be in each league folder. Check to see that there is, please. If so, then OOTP Developments will have to take it from here.

slthree · 10-12-2012, 12:04 AM

When I click on the file folder of the saved season there are a few folders and then some files

There is a players.dat file that is 13,245 kb

Quote:

Originally Posted by OBSL Commish

Okay good. Now I apologize. I may have been wrong about where your players.dat file is located. There may be in each league folder. Check to see that there is, please. If so, then OOTP Developments will have to take it from here.

OutS|der · 10-12-2012, 12:26 AM

Is the save game you're trying to load created after you did the reinstall or is it one from before?
Can you create a new game save it then reload it? If not contact support as that is a problem

slthree · 10-12-2012, 12:35 AM

Its from before the new install

I will try your suggestion

But, this will be the 20th time or so I actually have to restart after spending so much time setting up my team

Thank you

Quote:

Originally Posted by OutS|der

Is the save game you're trying to load created after you did the reinstall or is it one from before?
Can you create a new game save it then reload it? If not contact support as that is a problem

OutS|der · 10-12-2012, 12:37 AM

It's possible the last install had a corruption, through 20 different times is little bit much. I would of contacted support 10 times ago but do it for sure if the new test works, just make it a simple game just to see if you can load one.

Bigrod · 10-12-2012, 02:36 AM

This is sounding more like an operating system problem and not a game problem.
If you're running windows, Try this, when you start ootp, right click the Icon and select run as administrator. It may work and may not, but the only times I've seen a problem such as yours, it's been because the user doesn't have full admin rights and thus the os blocks some files.
That many saved games being bad, would not be from a bad install. Bad save, possibly, but not a bad install. Just my opinion after 3 yrs. of beta testing..

BTW: That players file your game can't load is in each of your saved games folder and is called players.dat. Every saved game has one and is unique to that saved game only.

Baldric · 10-12-2012, 04:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigrod

This is sounding more like an operating system problem and not a game problem.
If you're running windows, Try this, when you start ootp, right click the Icon and select run as administrator. It may work and may not, but the only times I've seen a problem such as yours, it's been because the user doesn't have full admin rights and thus the os blocks some files.

Which is also a good reason not to install to Program Files from a default installation. I had something similar when installing some of the earlier demos to update the save file. Couldn't complete the conversion process due to lack of admin rights in that folder.

RchW · 10-12-2012, 11:03 AM

Yeah, I have OOTP on my second HDD, away from the OS drive. Not exclusively but occupying prime real estate on a drive I defrag every few days.

Works smoothly for a long time.

10-11-2012, 09:00 PM	#1
slthree Bat Boy Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 9	Greetings Baseball Loving Brothers. I am NEW with a question First, I'm a former ball player from way back (as I'm sure many of you are). I come from the PS3 world and have loved playing MLB TheShow. That being said, I don't know that I'll ever play that game again because I am unhealthily addicted to this game! However, I am having problems loading saved games. I have literally lost every game I have started and saved due to not being able to load when I come back to play more. (And, I have spent hours just in set up and drafting alone)Oh my Lord, some of the teams I've built, just to have to re start Anyway, I sent an email to the developer but maybe you guys can handle this one. Here's the most recent error message I'm getting: "An error occurred while loading the database! Could not load players file" By the way, I did search but didn't find a match for that message. Thank you for listening and an even bigger thank you to anyone who gets me up and running! Last edited by slthree; 10-11-2012 at 09:10 PM.

10-12-2012, 02:36 AM	#18
Bigrod OOTP Stats Master Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Maine Posts: 3,075	This is sounding more like an operating system problem and not a game problem. If you're running windows, Try this, when you start ootp, right click the Icon and select run as administrator. It may work and may not, but the only times I've seen a problem such as yours, it's been because the user doesn't have full admin rights and thus the os blocks some files. That many saved games being bad, would not be from a bad install. Bad save, possibly, but not a bad install. Just my opinion after 3 yrs. of beta testing.. BTW: That players file your game can't load is in each of your saved games folder and is called players.dat. Every saved game has one and is unique to that saved game only. Last edited by Bigrod; 10-12-2012 at 02:56 AM.

10-12-2012, 11:03 AM	#20
RchW Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The big smoke Posts: 15,628	Yeah, I have OOTP on my second HDD, away from the OS drive. Not exclusively but occupying prime real estate on a drive I defrag every few days. Works smoothly for a long time. __________________ Cheers RichW If you’re looking for a good cause to donate money to please consider a Donation to Parkinson’s Canada. It may help me have a better future and if not me, someone else. Thanks. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Frank Wilhoit

10-11-2012, 09:23 PM	#2
OBSL Commish All Star Reserve Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 946	Welcome, fellow former ballplayer and future OOTP junkie! It sounds like the players.dat file may be corrupted. Either that, or the Master.csv file is not being loaded. In your OOTP 13 folder within your My Documents folder, check to see that you have a players.dat file and a Master.csv file. If either one are missing from the OOTP 13 folder, then that's probably your problem.

10-11-2012, 09:54 PM	#4
OBSL Commish All Star Reserve Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 946	Both files should have been created when you installed OOTP. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the game. That should create those files. And don't delete any leagues you have created. They will be available to you when the game is reinstalled.

10-11-2012, 10:02 PM	#6
OBSL Commish All Star Reserve Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 946	Either way should be fine.

10-11-2012, 10:37 PM	#7
slthree Bat Boy Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 9	Well, I went from giddy to deflated in mere minutes Did a new install from the OOTP homepage From Home screen I tried to load the season and I got the exact same message Closed out and went back to the "My Documents" folder then the "OOTP13" folder. Those same 2 files you referenced earlier were STILL NOT THERE Now what? BTW, I really appreciate the help

10-11-2012, 10:51 PM	#8
OBSL Commish All Star Reserve Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 946	What version of the game are you using? Is it the latest version -- 13.8.30? If not, try downloading the latest patch from the General Discussions board here and see if that helps. The players.dat file should be there when you create the game. It's a universal file that your leagues will use so there's no reason for it not to show up. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas. All I can suggest if this fails is to submit a support ticket to OOTP.

10-11-2012, 11:49 PM	#13
OBSL Commish All Star Reserve Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 946	Okay good. Now I apologize. I may have been wrong about where your players.dat file is located. There may be in each league folder. Check to see that there is, please. If so, then OOTP Developments will have to take it from here.

10-12-2012, 12:26 AM	#15
OutS\|der Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: In A Van Down By The River Posts: 2,247	Is the save game you're trying to load created after you did the reinstall or is it one from before? Can you create a new game save it then reload it? If not contact support as that is a problem

10-12-2012, 12:37 AM	#17
OutS\|der Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: In A Van Down By The River Posts: 2,247	It's possible the last install had a corruption, through 20 different times is little bit much. I would of contacted support 10 times ago but do it for sure if the new test works, just make it a simple game just to see if you can load one.