Save Game loads to 93%

[papagiorgio01]

I'm in my 20th season and now my saved game won't load. It gets to 93% and stops. Of course I don't have a backup. I've been using CubbyFan's rosters. Can anyone help?

[endgame]

using photos?

[papagiorgio01]

Yeah, using photos for the RL players and facegen for the new players.

[endgame]

Originally Posted by papagiorgio01

Yeah, using photos for the RL players and facegen for the new players.

All right. I'd try two things in this order. If the first doesn't work, try the second.

1) Be sure it really does stop. By that I mean, it's 20 seasons. At some point the process is going to slow w a y down like loading skins. I'd let that sucker sit there for an hour, if that's what it takes, and make sure that it's not just giving you the false impression of a lockup. If it hasn't been giving you an error message, like a Runtime error, than the chances are good this step is really the problem. Wait it out.

2) Disable FaceGen. Do your thing. Wait it out again, if necessary. If it does Finalize and load, enable FaceGen again.

[papagiorgio01]

Neither one worked. Left it on for 45 minutes and no progression from 93% (it got there in under 1 minute). Also turned off face gen, restarted and retried.

Thanks for the suggestions, though!

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Originally Posted by papagiorgio01

Neither one worked. Left it on for 45 minutes and no progression from 93% (it got there in under 1 minute). Also turned off face gen, restarted and retried.

Thanks for the suggestions, though!

All right. The only other suggestion I've seen documented that had any effect (that doesn't mean I'll quit looking on your behalf) was to defrag the hard drive and run whatever program you have to check for disk errors, i.e. Scandisk, PerfectDisk...

Personally, I'm not optimistic that's the answer. But we won't give up on a 20yr old league. That's just wrong. Back at ya when I have more to offer.

Edit: Do you recall what phase it's in when stalling? Is there a name or part that's said to be loading?

[Corsairs]

endgame was already covering this angle, but just to be sure... try renaming your "faces.dat" file to "faces.old" and see if you can get into your league. If it does have something to do with the player pictures, that should do the trick. Otherwise it's indeed likely to be something else.

[papagiorgio01]

Renaming the faces.dat file worked!!

All the faces seem to be there just as I remembered them, too. So what did changes the file name actually do?

[papagiorgio01]

Oh, and thank you so much for not giving up on my league. I love this game!

[Corsairs]

I'm surprised that the faces are still there; I lose all associations when I rename faces.dat and have to regenerate all new faces for every player.

What's happening is described in this thread. It's a bug where faces.dat inexplicably becomes corrupt after a certain amount of time. The game will crash while trying to save the file, after which point you won't be able to load the game with the damaged faces.dat.

Andreas has a copy of my league files (which also exhibit the problem) and is working on a solution. My online league is scheduled to be hit by this bug next season, so here's hoping the cause gets discovered before too long.

[papagiorgio01]

Ah, yeah, when I re-enabled my facegen, the faces all got replaced. I'm just getting used to all the new looks. Looks like a plastic surgeon made a lot of money...

[Nutlaw]

So are you all set on this one?

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Originally Posted by Nutlaw

So are you all set on this one?

Sorry, Nutlaw. I should have PM'd you that you could close this one up.
Thanks for the help, Corsairs!