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battists · 07-10-2007, 09:10 AM

Crashes are aggravating little buggers, because unless they are easily reproducible, they're nearly impossible to fix (from what I understand).

I've been playing a solo league recently, the first chance I've had to actually play the durned game since I can't remember when, and I have had a few crashes, all of which happened on the Lineups/Depth Charts screen, but I can't quite put my finger on when it happens. It seems like it has something to do with changing people's positions in the lineup part of the screen. I've spoken to Markus about it, but we haven't been able to track it down. Sounds like you may have run into the same thing.

I feel like 2007 isn't as stable as 6.5 was, but is WAYYY more stable than 2006. But, that also makes some sense when you think about it, as 6.5 was really nothing more than tweak after tweak after tweak on the same engine that had been improved and bug-fixed for what, 5+ years?

Anyway, of course it never hurts to log as much info about your crash as possible in the tech support forum!

battists · 07-10-2007, 09:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charlie Hough

Always backup your saved games. If you're working on a saved game that has lasted a number of seasons, you absolutely MUST produce a backup of it, almost every time you finishing playing it. Otherwise you're tempting fate.

QTF, BTW.

Best to back up the whole darn league folder too, to be safest. Sounds silly from a "party" guy, but I don't personally use the in-game backup feature. If you have a copy of WinRar installed, this little utility takes the pain out of backing up your league. (Thanks, Minnelli!)

The first time this runs, it takes a while, but thereafter it's pretty quick to back up, because it only picks new and changed files.

I have a pretty small league:

20 teams x 6 levels (ML down through R)
12 years of history

But Minnelli's little rar program zips my league files up into about a 60MB file, hardly unbearable. (I did adjust the program to exclude player photos, because I use FaceGen, and it can always generate new ones with the same facial characteristics if I had to restore the league.)

I made a shortcut to Minnelli's batch program on my desktop. Any time I've just done something significant (like rearranged all of my lineups and depth charts after an amateur draft), I just quit the game, double-click the shortcut, and go get a soda. By the time I'm done, it's backed up, and I can fire it up again knowing that if it crashes horribly five minutes later, my carefully-crafted lineups and depth charts are safe!

WinRar, BTW, is shareware, worth the price, and also available free in an unlimited trial version.

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battists OOTP Developments Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 17,024 Blog Entries: 7 Thanked 703x in 194 posts	Crashes are aggravating little buggers, because unless they are easily reproducible, they're nearly impossible to fix (from what I understand). I've been playing a solo league recently, the first chance I've had to actually play the durned game since I can't remember when, and I have had a few crashes, all of which happened on the Lineups/Depth Charts screen, but I can't quite put my finger on when it happens. It seems like it has something to do with changing people's positions in the lineup part of the screen. I've spoken to Markus about it, but we haven't been able to track it down. Sounds like you may have run into the same thing. I feel like 2007 isn't as stable as 6.5 was, but is WAYYY more stable than 2006. But, that also makes some sense when you think about it, as 6.5 was really nothing more than tweak after tweak after tweak on the same engine that had been improved and bug-fixed for what, 5+ years? Anyway, of course it never hurts to log as much info about your crash as possible in the tech support forum!