PROJECT: Playtest

[Solver]

OK, now if we have a game-crashing bug that can't be reproduced on every tester, that's a much worse situation.

[Solver]

Saw your edit - mine's 1.11, and the first playtest build I installed completely over it was 2004-04-12, and now 2004-04-18, where I get this unfortunate behaviour.

[Solver]

Tamerlin, I uploaded a save, can you download it and try to load? It's been started using GoodMod for Apolyton Pack - hmm, could that be what causes the problems?

The file: This

[Tamerlin]

Another quicktest with the 2004-04-18 playtest only installed over a CtP2 1.11 build (the regular CtP2 folder which I use to play the SAP2 and so on... with a few tweaks) produces the same result... no problem at all.

I am under WinXP and I don't use the Compatibility Tool to play...

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Solver
Tamerlin, I uploaded a save, can you download it and try to load? It's been started using GoodMod for Apolyton Pack - hmm, could that be what causes the problems?

Fromafar conjectured a SLIC-related cause, so I guess mod saves would be more vulnerable than normal ones.

[Solver]

Despite the previous build working perfectly, which had all of those SLIC functions added, hmm?

Well, maybe Fromafar can enlighten us some.

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Solver
Tamerlin, I uploaded a save, can you download it and try to load? It's been started using GoodMod for Apolyton Pack - hmm, could that be what causes the problems?

No problem at all I can load and play your game.

Note, your game was not acknowledged as a CtP2 saved game until I removed the .chr extension added in the name of the file.

[Solver]

OK that's even more confusing then. How did you start CtP2 - via ModSwapper selecting Goodmod, or how?

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Solver
OK that's even more confusing then. How did you start CtP2 - via ModSwapper selecting Goodmod, or how?

I use Modswapper selecting GoodMod for Apolyton Pack 2.0!

[EDIT]I have played a turn, made two saves (a quick and a regular one) and loaded them sucessfully.[/EDIT]

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
Fromafar conjectured a SLIC-related cause, so I guess mod saves would be more vulnerable than normal ones.

Indeed they are, Peter discovered a problem concerning the database access, no problem if you you initialize the slic but something wents wrong when you load the slic from a save. You can reload slic before you hit end turn after a reload. Of course this is not a solution, but that veryfies it.

-Martin

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
Indeed they are, Peter discovered a problem concerning the database access, no problem if you you initialize the slic but something wents wrong when you load the slic from a save. You can reload slic before you hit end turn after a reload. Of course this is not a solution, but that veryfies it.

Was this fixed in your recent alterations to the slic source? If so, it's probably worth me uploading a new playtest exe so that people like Solver can actually load their games.

[Solver]

How do I reload SLIC then before I load the game to check it??

[Solver]

Was this fixed in your recent alterations to the slic source? If so, it's probably worth me uploading a new playtest exe so that people like Solver can actually load their games.

Did we have any source additions after the 4-18 build at all?

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Solver
Did we have any source additions after the 4-18 build at all?

Yep, but just this one post.

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
Was this fixed in your recent alterations to the slic source?

No.

Originally posted by Solver
How do I reload SLIC then before I load the game to check it??

So a crash before the you can move a unit or do another thing. In that case we are talking about two different problems.

-Martin