Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Safe-Keeper]

So I downloaded DF, and it worked fine (well, as fine as an alpha can work, I suppose). Then, at one point, it started to freeze when it saved my game. I've auto-saving set to Seasonal, so this in effect means that I have to Ctrl+Alt+Del kill dwarfort.exe nearly every time the season changes. Fortunately, I can just go right back into the game after killing it, so the lock-up obviously happens after the game is done saving. A side-effect seems to be that the game only saves to the top-most 'current' save - I'm in 206 now and the other saves of Logemked are from 201.

Manually saving on exit seems to work just fine.

I sadly do not remember what brought this on. I may have started the After-Action Reporter tutorial, but that doesn't sound like it should cause lock-ups.

Mods and third-party applications:
 - Dwarf Manager .7
 - VisualFortress
 - 3Dwarf

System specs:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Windows XP
1028 MB RAM
Pentium 4 3 GHZ CPU (2 CPUs)
512 MB NVIDIA GeFORCE 9400 GT

[Footkerchief]

A side-effect seems to be that the game only saves to the top-most 'current' save

"Current" is where DF keeps save files it's currently using, while a game is in progress.  It shouldn't be saving the game there per se.  What folder are you loading from?  Have you tried deleting the obsolete backups, or at least moving them out of the save folder?

[Safe-Keeper]

OK, so with "current" I just meant the save that appears topmost when you hit "Continue Playing". Sorry for being vague there.

[Footkerchief]

Have you tried deleting the obsolete backups, or at least moving them out of the save folder?

[Thief^]

The seasonal save does take a little longer than a normal "exit" save if you have autobackup on, because it makes a full copy of your save folder. DF will be frozen while it does this. If you wait, does it unfreeze? If not, is it an issue with not having enough space or permissions to copy the save to backup?

[Safe-Keeper]

OK, so I'll try just waiting, then if that doesn't work, I'll try Footkerchief's suggestion.

[Safe-Keeper]

    Have you tried deleting the obsolete backups, or at least moving them out of the save folder?

Fixed the problem. Thanks.

[Footkerchief]

Dunno why that would have caused a crash, unless the drive was filled up or something, which you'd probably have noticed.  Glad it's working now though.