DataIO system operation Error: TILE

[mykyl]

DataIO system operation Error: TILE

I am getting this error when trying to load saved games since I installed the patch. This is the second and correct version of the patch.

My first post-patch game made it just into the modern era before it struck. My second game is barely out of ancient. When I get this error on a saved game, it also pops up on all the autosaves of that game (with the exception of the very first one in 4000 BC)....so my only option is to start that game over or start a new game.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Gramphos]

Can you attach the save?

If you have any earlier, working, save of the same game, I could use it too.

[mykyl]

I will when I get home.

Unfortunately, I do not have a working save. There is no warning when this happens, and the corruption may go on for many turns without you knowing it until the next time you play. As I said, all the autosaves are corrupt as well.

[Gramphos]

Well, then I'll look at it when I get up, but I can't promise that I can save the game without a non-affected map to transplant into the corrupt game.

[mykyl]

Here is a save game.

Is this a known bug?

[mykyl]

So you need just a map before the bug?

Here is the save in 4000 BC before the corruption if this helps....if you are able to fix this, I would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me how so I can do it in the future until there is (hopefully) a patch that will fix this.

[Insigna]

I had this same bug, of couse I havd 20 other bugs that are more important right now

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by mykyl
Is this a known bug?

I don't know it, but I know a lot about the saves, and the errors that can show ehen loadeing, and that error maens that atleast one tile is missing (might be at the wrong place). I don't know if I can fix it, but I'll try.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by mykyl
So you need just a map before the bug?

I could fix it without the map (but I didn't know as I hadn't ran into that error before).

if you are able to fix this, I would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me how so I can do it in the future until there is (hopefully) a patch that will fix this.

I don't know if it is easy to fix without a debug version of a savegame reader...

This is what I did.

First I tried to load the save in C3CT, but as it didn't work (the file was not as expected) I went to the source code, and made a breakpoint when no more tiles were found.

When I got there I figured out that not all 9800 tiles had been loaded, so I checked the section that stopped the tiles, and it wasn't "CONT" as expected, but "uILE". So I got to my HEX-editor and made a search for "uILE" in the SAV, and found one tile that hat had its starters changed to uILE from TILE (each tile has two starters) I changed them back (edited two bytes), and the file was fixed.

[mykyl]

Thank you very much. Been a LONG time since I have touched a Hex editor. I will have to look into it.

Do you have any idea what the cause of this is?

[mykyl]

I am a HEX editing MADMAN!



Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction. I downloaded a nice little Hex editor and before you can say "all you base, are belong to us!" I was able to do it.

Now I can finish those games.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by mykyl
I am a HEX editing MADMAN!
Now I can finish those games.

Was it the same error in all those games?

[mykyl]

The displayed error was the same. I assume the fix wil be the same for those. I will check tonight and over the weekend.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by mykyl
The displayed error was the same. I assume the fix wil be the same for those. I will check tonight and over the weekend.

Might be, but as probably something has gotten into the memory, and changed it, it could be something else wrong with one TILE, it does not necessarily need to be uILE. But as it is the same Computer it is most likely the same error, and fix.