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Trying to Open saved game crashes

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Just got the game starting new full campaign. I saved game fine. Next day opened that save game and started playing, made 3 new save game files that night. Today I try to open the latest and it crashes the game. All saves from yesterday crash, but the one from the day before still loads fine.

To be specific, the game crashes right after I select the save game file from the list, it doesn't even get to the point where it loads turn info and shows the "load the selected save game file." button

Running game version 1.07.15
System:
Win7 Ultimate SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00 GHz
3 Gigs RAM
Virtual memory set to 3069MB

Suggestions for how to avoid getting into this state?

Attached 2 files, one that opens fine and one that crashes, in case its helpful to game development.

thanks,
Mark
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RE: Trying to Open saved game crashes

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Both saves are from turn 1?
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yes, very early in Turn 1 as German. Only Air missions so far.
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What version of the game are you playing? The saved game looks like it's from an older version of the game.

edit: sorry, I see you wrote about 1.07.15.

I can replicate the crash. Investigating the case.
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thank you,

interesting that it crashes when selected, makes me think there is something in the metadata for the game that it doesn't like. but how did the offending data get there? [:)]

Not a big deal in this case, didn't lose too much. But I'd really like to avoid it happening again and again, either through code fix or work around on my part.

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Fixed for 1.08.04 with help of Helpless [:)]
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Hey cool! You have incredibly fast turn around [:)] I'm cursed by being a software tester for 12+ years, the bugs just find me.

Looking forward to downloading once released. I'm not allowed on the Beta... (but I might find more bugs)

Anything I can do to avoid in the meanwhile? Or just chalk it up to randomness?

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I don't know why it happens for you. Why don't you switch to 1.08.03 beta?
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RE: Trying to Open saved game crashes

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Hi M,

If you guys ever run out of bugs to fix, you could take a look at the "slider" (tech talk) in the commander's report. Basically, if you click too fast (I think that's what does it) then the scrolling gets "weird" (more teckie stuff) then the dreaded "not responding" comes.

Actually, there are more, so I do saves quite often, so I don't have to start over so much. Then you guys fix stuff and I stop doing my multiple saves routine and then loose about 3/4 hours of play time, to do over yet again.

PS, I know why Pavel chose "helpless" but I will never tell.
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Sorry, GUI code is external to WitE, and still used by WitW. I'm not touching it. I guess it's related to the speed - you click too fast, before the engine has rendered the view fully, and this triggers some kind of a concurrency problem.
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Ok, thx anyway.

BTW you know when you are going too fast if you see the blue circle, then stop and wait for the engine to catch up, only takes a few seconds if you stop fast enough.
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Getting a faster PC could solve the issue [:)]
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