Crashes while running autoscheduled bouts

[Antonin]

I bought the game some time ago but have not actually played it until now.

I have created a universe of fictional fighters. So far I have only played around with my 300 heavyweights. I like to autoschedule 100 fights at a time.

Unfortunately, sometimes when I run the scheduled bouts, the game crashes to desktop. This is rather frustrating, because then I lose all of the fight data I'm accumulated in that particular game session.

I am also getting an error message when I 'fight out' some fights. It seems the animation "b2_p3_b1_block.png" will not load. I looked in the relevant folder and it appears that that particular animation is corrupted.

[Antonin]

OK, so I went into my animations folder and renamed the corrupted (the bottom half of the frame looks like static) b2_p3_b1_block.png image. Then I copied an uncorrupted "block" image and renamed it "b2_p3_b1_block.png".

I closed the animations folder, then reopened it. The renamed image was corrupted.

Then, I unlicensed the game, and uninstalled it.

Then I downloaded TBCB 2.5 again, reinstalled it, and relicensed it.

When starting up the newly installed game for the first time I got the message "Error! Unable to open target file."

I looked at the animations folder again, and the "new" b2_p3_b1_block.png animation image is corrupted.

So, my problems are:

1) crashes while running autoscheduled fights, and

2) an "unable to load" error message while 'fighting out' fights because the animation frame b2_p3_b1_block.png is corrupted for some reason.

Frustrating.

I realize that computer simulations are very complex animals. But, having bought 2.5 when it came out, and finally having some free time to play it, I was hoping to finally begin doing so.

I appreciate Andreas' hard work on the game, but I will be very, very glad when he is able to devote some time to TBCB trouble-shooting.

TBCB 2.5 is, at least right now on my computer, barely playable.

[Antonin]

Let me correct what I said in my last post:

When I start the game, which I redownloaded and reinstalled and relicensed just a few minutes ago, I see the message "Installing default data files." Then I get the message "Error! Unable to open target file," and the game crashes to desktop.

So, it is not playable at all. *sigh*

[Kevin]

I have also been having more crashes lately while simming auto-scheduled bouts. It does not appear to a certain fighter causing it as they are all getting saved bouts.

I had the same problem in 2.0, and it mostly disappearred in 2.5 until recently.

[Cap]

Wonder if it is triggered by a buildup of saved fights?

[Kevin]

I don't save the fight logs, etc.

The only files saved are the html files and the updated stas of the fighters. I do need to clean out all those html files though.

[Antonin]

I don't save fight logs either.

After spending a couple (more) hours fiddling around with 2.5, I have been able to get it working. I manually deleted the folder containing animations, and did a reinstall. The unable to 'open target file' error went away.

To get around the crash while simming autoscheduled bouts, or at least make it bearable, I save the game a LOT more.

[CONN CHRIS]

I have linked this to a punch list for the next patch so Andreas can review it. Thanks Antonin.

[Antonin]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

I have linked this to a punch list for the next patch so Andreas can review it. Thanks Antonin.

Cheers!