CRASH - OOTP.EXE has encountered a problem...

[digi]

All,

I have a bit of a problem. I'm in my second season (6/2/07 is the date).

What I did:
After the second amateur draft, I was pruning the scrubs out of the minors and attempted to sign a few minor league free agents. Now I am unable to advance to the next day. When I hit "Continue", it errs out after reaching 100% (tried about 5 times).

Error: "ootp2006.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience"

Upon entering the savegame:
Upon entering, I select Human Manager (myself) and then select "continue". I crash at that point.

Will upload the savegame if you'd like.

Specs
System - P4 2.8Ghz, 768MB Ram, running WinXpSP2.

I don't have any issues with a any other save. Unfortunately, I only have one save from the league I was playing......

[GBS]

It sounds like the type thing that was happening to me. In my case I never could continue the game from that point and had to delete the league and start again. I have removed the game from my computer and hope to try again after the patch. I continue to be astounded by the instability of this game and can't see how blatent things like this ever got past beta testers.

[digi]

While I understand your frustration, I just want to help in getting problems like this fixed. Guys, anything that I can do, please let me know.

[Tim Tellean]

blatant with your system specs, but with hundreds of different systems you can't get all of them
I've had the same crash happened after I started a league got to April 1 and minors aren't filled. (Found and corrected bug. Yeah ).
Waiting for the patch I tried to create an entirely fictional league and the game crashes. No matter what type I try. This was also noted by F Montoya and reported.
Don't worry if you've never tested software its a daunting task and the game may run fine on your machine and crash on mine. I see issues and you don't. Its a huge undertaking.

[GBS]

Understand Tim and appreciate your comments. My computer is nothing unusual, just a stock DELL with Windows XP, a Pentium 4 with 2 gigs of RAM. Pretty vinilla I say. Do you think all DELL's mass produced machines are all different?

[greenmonster04]

(note, this was posted already in the 'experiencing crashes?' thread, but I thought I'd repost since the patch did not fix it.)

repeating, predictable crash
<HR style="COLOR: #cb9f5b" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->every time I try to advance to the next day, the game crashes right away. If I set the game preferences to save daily, then it will crash, EVERY TIME, when the status bar is at 92% (updating news).

this happens on both my laptop and desktop, and all they have in common is that they are running windows xp w. SP2.

the league is a brand new fictional league (24+ teams), with minor leagues and some INT leagues. I've finished the initial draft, and have been singing free agents and making trades since. It is only day January 23. I believe that I have no free agent offers out, but do have 3-4 trade offers that the AI must process.

I have the error log saved, and can upload the save game if you would like... just let me know exactly what you need.

[digi]

Yup, my save game is still experiencing the same issue. Not able to advance to the next date. Game date is 6/2/07 (year 2 of league). Will upload save or do anything else required to resolve this issue.

I had previously opened a thread on this here:

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=121998

Thanks,
DiGi

[battists]

This issue has been logged, as TT# 1745. Please hang onto the save games, if possible, while we figure out what to do...

Thanks!

[battists]

OK, I merged the two threads, just to make life easier on us. Hope this helps. I changed the thread title as well, to make it a little more clear.

Thanks...

[thomamon]

Tt 1838

[greenmonster04]

so, should I send my save game somewhere?

[Layton is my Homeboy]

Bah, now I've got one too. Mine I'm about 15 years into the league. It won't advance through the amature draft. It's crashed about four times in a row now. I can provide the save gave if necessary.

I'm running Win98.

[Cork55]

I encountered this problem last night after completing one season of a league. The game then proceeded to crash at the start of the second season. A careful examination of the teams revealed that my Rookie league teams (I am only using AA and Rookie league minor leagues) were almost completely empty of players.

I tried filling the teams with fictional players and letting the AI manage all teams (I had not taken a managing job yet) but the crash still persisted. My solution to this was to recreate the league and run it with spring training turned off. This has worked like a charm through 6 seasons. I started a historical league and then edited the league to add my fictional teams. I also edited the Arod/Garon DB files to remove all players before 1984. This allows me to start with no prior stats. I have the rookie draft turned on and so far everything works.

The rookie draft each season is around 5-6 rounds and seems to use all the rookies listed in the rookies draft text file.

So in summary, try turning off spring training and see if that helps your leagues.

-Cork55

[greenmonster04]

any updates yet?

[Markus Heinsohn]

I need league files to fix the problem... please zip only the *.dat files of the league that crashes and send them to markus.heinsohn@sigames.com! Thanks

[digi]

Marcus,

File is being emailed now.

Thanks,
DiGi

[greenmonster04]

a little birdy told me that the problem is now fixed

[battists]

Would that be Markus? Let me know, so I can move this over to the Claimed Fixed forum!

[battists]

dola, yep, Markus claims this is fixed. Since he has your league file, I'm going to count this as tested, and move it over to the Claim Fixed forum.

Thanks!

Steve