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[0.28.181.40d] Stops Responding
« on: July 10, 2009, 10:15:04 pm »
After three months I have started playing Dwarf Fortress again and I have started getting errors.

Dwarf Fortress will seemingly at random stop responding and close making me lose any progress I made on my fortress. I don't recieve any other error message other then "This application has stopped responding etc", I have been able to reload and play again until I get past the point I got the error, but the game will still stop responding whenever it chooses to.

I have been able to run DF for hours at a time in the past without incident and as far as I know I have not changed any of my computers settings in any way that could be relevant to this.
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Re: [0.28.181.40d] Stops Responding
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2009, 02:07:51 pm »
Does this just happen in a particular savegame?  It might correspond to the arrival of a caravan or siege group.
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Re: [0.28.181.40d] Stops Responding
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2009, 02:44:13 am »
This happens whenever I start a fortress. There doesn't seem to be any particular trigger for this. I can save and play exactly the same and it will keep going past where it crashed before, and it will instead crash sometimes 10, sometimes 30 minutes later.
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Re: [0.28.181.40d] Stops Responding
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2009, 03:01:53 am »
What operating system are you using?  Is there anything unusual in errorlog.txt?
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Re: [0.28.181.40d] Stops Responding
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2009, 12:01:42 pm »
I am using windows vista. I cannot seem to find an errorlog.txt. If you mean gamelog.txt there is nothing unusual in there other then it just ending.
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Re: [0.28.181.40d] Stops Responding
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2009, 12:06:30 pm »
Do you have the game installed in Program Files?  If so, try reinstalling it somewhere else instead.  You might want to re-download the game in case your previous install got corrupted.
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Re: [0.28.181.40d] Stops Responding
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2009, 09:06:35 pm »
My previous DF was in My Documents if that counts.

Redownloading and extracting DF to the desktop seems to have worked. I have had no further problems with this, thank you.
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