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RoninFrosty

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Nemesis Error?
« on: March 31, 2009, 02:11:01 pm »
What is this? I can play for about 5 minutes, then kablooie, nemesis error, game crashes. Is this fixable?
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Re: Nemesis Error?
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2009, 02:46:36 pm »
I believe this occurs when the save file is corrupted.  Try doing a search in the bug reports forum, it's been reported many many times, along with various fixes.
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Re: Nemesis Error?
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2009, 04:29:31 pm »
Quote from: Dame de la Licorne on March 31, 2009, 02:46:36 pm
I believe this occurs when the save file is corrupted.  Try doing a search in the bug reports forum, it's been reported many many times, along with various fixes.

The fixes being 'Start over, your save is corrupt'. :) At least that's the trend I saw.
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Re: Nemesis Error?
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2009, 04:47:34 pm »
Yeah...no one responded to my topic in the bugs forum, and since this is already here, I'll ask:

I looked around using the search function in the bugs forum, and it seems to be missing files in the saves folder that causes this issue. I'm in the habit of deleting regions I don't want to play anymore...is it possible that if I accidently deleted an old folder (like SPR-Region01 or w/e) of a region I'm still actually playing, that this might be what's causing the error?
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Re: Nemesis Error?
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2009, 05:06:07 pm »
Quote from: RoninFrosty on March 31, 2009, 04:47:34 pm
is it possible that if I accidently deleted an old folder (like SPR-Region01 or w/e) of a region I'm still actually playing, that this might be what's causing the error?

I'm not 100% sure that may have caused it or not... But when I got the error, I was deleting a ton of saves too. It might be bad luck on our part, or that might be a part of it.

I think it might be due to autosaves not saving everything, and then loading off those autosaves.
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Re: Nemesis Error?
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2009, 05:10:36 pm »
Thanks for the input.

Anyone else got anything?
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Re: Nemesis Error?
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2009, 06:21:10 pm »
Got this from the bug forum, thought you guys might be interested:

Quote from: Sowelu on March 31, 2009, 05:54:19 pm
This error is most commonly caused when you terminate Dwarf Fortress without saving--whether that's a power failure, a hung game, or pressing ctrl-alt-del and terminating the process.  Don't do that.  If you do that, restore from a backup save...every single time.  Otherwise, this bug will bite you a few months or years into the future.
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