DataIO error??

[Spec]

I'm sorry if I'm in the wrong topic but I didn't find any technical forum. So my question is this. Somebody I know gets this error everytime he wants to load a saved game, auto saves work fine but manual saves gives him this error. Anybody know why?

Spec.

[SpencerH]

I've seen that error when loading a manually saved game after I had added a unit. Its mentioned in a thread, I think in creation maybe KORN469 or gramphos are the posters. I never tried loading an autosave.

[Gramphos]

There should be a four character word after the DataIO error that tells what the error is (there are more then one)

What game version do you use?

[Spec]

american version, where you have regent insted of prince.

[Tarquelne]

IIRC, (30% chance?) I'd got that error after I failed to rename a unit's directory/ ini file after renaming the unit in the editor. (There's a note in the Help file that tells you about the directory/ini renaming.)

Renaming or not, I've only seen it after doing either something wrong in the editor, or making a change that's proper, except that it makes the game incompatible with my saved games. (Starting a new game works fine.)

[Gramphos]

I meant what patch original (1.07f), first patch (1.16f) or second patch (1.17f) I don't bother about the sub patches.

[Spec]

1.17

[Gramphos]

Do you get it from all games you play, or just a particular one? Has the savegame been converted from earlier version?

[Spec]

Just Civ3 but all his games, and also, it seems to stop after the middle age ends.And there has been no changes made in the editor.

[Gramphos]

Strange, can you attach a zipped file, and I'll add it to my todolist. (Too bad I've forgot some files I prommissed to look at before creating that list...)

[Spec]

ok I'll try to get the save from friend

[Willem]

BTW Spec, the Help forum is the technical area.