This morning when i tried to open the saved game, it loadead almost fully, and than crashed just before the end of the loading. This happened twice. The error said: CTP2 caused an invalid page fault in module ... and than it listed registries etc...

After that i tried to start a new MED Mod II game(or a new game, I am not sure anymore) and than CTP2 listed as the empire name - 'BADSTRING' - and as the leader name junkstring_DESCRIPTION ... the other butons were OK...

A couple of questions though.
Did you shut down and restart windows between each of the failed attempts at loading and did you happen to try to load the MedModII scenario and then go back and load the saved game?

Oh, and since I am getting games from both Harlan and Wes' scenarios please specify which scenario it came from in the email. It would help quite a bit.

This morning i went first to load the game, and than load the saved game... The computer crashed, after that I tried to go and load once more... crash.. than I went to try and start -i think now- a new MED MOD II scenario game - and I have seen that BADSTRING etc... as empire name...

BTW... The computer actually made autosave in another folder... not where my original saved game was.(maybe this is a feature with CTP2 1.11)

FYI, there also is a bug with the autosave. From other forum posts, I am assuming it was introduced with the new patch. I am not 100% sure because I never paid that much attention before applying the patch.

What exactly do you mean by second save? Sorry but I can not reproduce the problem myself so I have to count on others info and files. The more detailed, the better it is.

Do you mean you started a game, played a while, saved the game, exited CtP2, came back later, started CtP2, loaded that saved game, played a while, saved the game again, exited CtP2, came back later, started CtP2, tried to load the second game you had saved and it abended?

(see my post with the varible names in it under the med mod post)

1. it is different from the error I had in the previous game.

2. It comes with the second save of the game, regardless if you save and go straight to CTP2 (to start a new game) or if you save exit CTP'2 completly and than start CTP2, load the game - it crashes again.

The error message is the same 'GU104.spr not found in asset tree' fault.

It doesn't seem to do anything with the extra folder created by autosave... i tried to save the standard game in that extra folder and it works fine, as well as saving the second save in the quicksave folder - still corrupt.

Scorpion I have now three corrupted save files and five working ones, the three corrupted ones are created a turn after one of the working saves, so if you want any of them I can send.

What exactly do you mean by second save? Sorry but I can not reproduce the problem myself so I have to count on others info and files. The more detailed, the better it is.

Do you mean you started a game, played a while, saved the game, exited CtP2, came back later, started CtP2, loaded that saved game, played a while, saved the game again, exited CtP2, came back later, started CtP2, tried to load the second game you had saved and it abended?

Yes, that is right. The funny thing is that all the games I had saved even the one i loaded the first time (which worked) does not work anymore. I can start a new scenario up and load the game from there but then the messages turn weird. I noticed that the game does not load the scenario files before it loads the game as it did the when it all worked. I think that is the problem.

btw. running v. 1.1

hope this helps.

Fortunately (or rather unfortunately), I am now able to produce the errors in my own games so that will also give me some more insight. Must be that CtP2 virus which replecates and spreads itself via the saved files.

There has been discussion about trying to involve Activision. I don't know how successful that would be since they don't actually support scenarios. At the moment, most are gone for the holidays any way. If it keeps going in the direction it looks like, I am sure they will get bombarded regardless.

A couple of things. Keep your leaders first names to at least 6 characters and see if this will fix the autosave and save file in the same directory problem. It fixes it for me (but I also delete the whole directory structure related to my leader before I start a brand new game). And second, always reboot windows after you get an error in CtP. (Yes, I harp on this but it keeps the problem from compounding on itself).

I have been play testing Med Mod II and I have not experienced the saved game problems. I am able to save a scenario game and then shut down the computer and come back later and load it with no problems and then continue using it.

A couple things about my setup. 1) I am using Windows 2000 sp1 on a K-6 233 with 64mb RAM. 2) I am using CTP2 patch 1.1, I did not need to use patch 1.11. 3) My leader name is Belisarius and I am playing the Byzantine Empire.

I notice a couple of things here that may have some affect on my game that results in the problem I am not experiencing. Those things are the patch I am using, the operating system I am using, and the fact that the leader name is over the 6 character minimum that skorp recommends.

Hope some of this helps.

OS Win98SE fully patched all drivers up to date
DX 8.0
TNT2
SB Live!
CTP2 1.1 American release
My Emperor name was Ava in this case

This is a repost from what I posted in the Med Mod II thread but it is relevant for this thread too. It will also answer the questions that Skorp asked me.

I have now gotten the same saved game error that everyone else has been reporting. The error does not show up the first time you save a game and then load it. The error shows up when you have saved the game a second time and then try to load it at a later time.

Here are some observations I have made concerning the error. 1) It happens on the second saved game. 2) If I load the first game I saved then try to load the second saved game on top of that, the game loads fine, but it is now using the full scenario files rather than the Domestic scenario files that is was created under. 3) If I start a new game using the Med Mod II Domestic Scenario and then try to load the second saved game over it, again, I get the full files rather than the Domestic version of the scenario.

I can tell it is the full files version rather than the Domestic because it includes a lot of units not found in the Domestic version of the Mod.

Wes, could you upload a Med Mod II Pak that just contains the altered files and nothing else? It would be interestion to see what types of behavior the game exhibits with just that type of pack instead of the combined pak that you now use.

Well that is all I have right now. I hope some of it helps with resolving the problem. I will repost this under Skorp's thread so that he can see this also.

Timothy Pintello

Thanks Radical_Manuvr
That is a nice bit of detective work from you, good job.