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Corsairs · 11-22-2007, 06:36 PM

First things first: I'm using the latest patch! If you need information beyond what I've listed, just let me know and I'll provide it.

I am commissioner of a startup fictional online league. Last month I ran a number of lengthy simulations to test settings for the league and had no problems. We've just completed our inaugural draft and have been discussing making some alterations to our settings before our first season gets underway. Last night I started a test sim for those settings with the intention of letting it run 35 years or so. Instead I was hit with this error while the game was saving the database after year 2008:

Note that sometimes it says the memory could not be "written" instead of "read". Fortunately I have a backup, so I've been able to run a few tests on this. Here's what I'm finding:

The game is regularly crashing at the end of 2008 during the "Saving Faces" portion of the database save.
After a crash I'm usually no longer able to load my league file: it freezes at 93% loaded (during the "Loading Faces" portion).
Sometimes I'm able to get back in after my year's-end '08 crash. In these cases I can sim until year's-end '10, when it will again crash while "Saving Faces". I've never been able to reload my file after this second crash.
The exact same thing happens if I run the sim on my second computer.
Disabling FaceGen/deleting pictures from the "Images" directory has no effect.
Directing the game not to save box scores/game logs/etc. has no effect.
Once the crash has occurred, the only way to access my league file is to delete the crashed version and restore from a backup.
I can only think of a few things of significance that have changed from my successful tests last month. I've upgraded to the latest patch, enabled FaceGen and am using a newly created database of players.

Obviously this has me concerned: I don't want to run into a situation where my league is shut down after two simulated years because of this. Is this a situation where I'm doing something wrong, or am I dealing with a corrupted file of some kind? I'll be happy to upload files as needed.

EDIT: Here's a link to my league's HTML reports (in case it helps to see the structure we're working with). I also wanted to add that I tried turning off my virus scanner and still experience the crash.

11-22-2007, 06:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
Corsairs Major Leagues Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 447	OOTP crashing with an "Application Error" First things first: I'm using the latest patch! If you need information beyond what I've listed, just let me know and I'll provide it. I am commissioner of a startup fictional online league. Last month I ran a number of lengthy simulations to test settings for the league and had no problems. We've just completed our inaugural draft and have been discussing making some alterations to our settings before our first season gets underway. Last night I started a test sim for those settings with the intention of letting it run 35 years or so. Instead I was hit with this error while the game was saving the database after year 2008: Note that sometimes it says the memory could not be "written" instead of "read". Fortunately I have a backup, so I've been able to run a few tests on this. Here's what I'm finding: The game is regularly crashing at the end of 2008 during the "Saving Faces" portion of the database save. After a crash I'm usually no longer able to load my league file: it freezes at 93% loaded (during the "Loading Faces" portion). Sometimes I'm able to get back in after my year's-end '08 crash. In these cases I can sim until year's-end '10, when it will again crash while "Saving Faces". I've never been able to reload my file after this second crash. The exact same thing happens if I run the sim on my second computer. Disabling FaceGen/deleting pictures from the "Images" directory has no effect. Directing the game not to save box scores/game logs/etc. has no effect. Once the crash has occurred, the only way to access my league file is to delete the crashed version and restore from a backup. I can only think of a few things of significance that have changed from my successful tests last month. I've upgraded to the latest patch, enabled FaceGen and am using a newly created database of players. Obviously this has me concerned: I don't want to run into a situation where my league is shut down after two simulated years because of this. Is this a situation where I'm doing something wrong, or am I dealing with a corrupted file of some kind? I'll be happy to upload files as needed. EDIT: Here's a link to my league's HTML reports (in case it helps to see the structure we're working with). I also wanted to add that I tried turning off my virus scanner and still experience the crash. Last edited by Corsairs : 11-23-2007 at 08:40 AM.