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[Stromko]

I have a game saved where I'm able to actually save, but it freezes up after it finishes doing so. Also, when I try to leave the area I'm in (a cave in the style of an abandoned fort, but pregenerated by DF), it hangs on Offloading Site.

It's kind of like it's unable to 'drop' the information that's in memory. This might have to do with me bringing in 6 or 7 human warriors to assist in killing a couple elite kobold bowmen. They're actually all dead but maybe it was too much data. Also I'll admit I did a lot of save-swapping in order to restart when I died (fighting elite bowmen is wickedly deadly), but I was able to do that with no repercussions until I brought all those hirelings into the cave with me. So it may have more to do with them than switching saves.

I'm not too heartbroken about it, thankfully I have a lot of backups that should bring me back to before the bug occured. But I kept the save folder that's bugged if you want that sent in.

Oh also, I was able to enter and exit the area several times with no problems. It was only after we went in and did a lot of fighting, climbed down some stairs, killed a few kobolds that this seemed to happen, as I was also able to leave and re-enter with the whole party before. Just now, in that bugged savegame, I can't. The few major differences between those two states is in one, the whole party hasn't been wiped out yet nor have the 2-3 named kobolds we fought; so, there's probably a lot of Legends entries for all the people the elite bowkobolds killed, plus who killed them, entries for each slain warrior, etc.

I just tested and found out that it also freezes up if I 'abandon' the game (give in to starvation). I'm not a programmer by any means, but it really looks like its problem is it's unable to 'drop' the data for some reason. It's unable to go to the main menu or change squares on the worldmap under any circumstances.

edit: While it is frozen, the CPU usage is at 90-99% constantly. It's doing something it just isn't getting anything out of it.  

[ August 23, 2006: Message edited by: Stromko ]

[ August 23, 2006: Message edited by: Stromko ]

[ August 23, 2006: Message edited by: Stromko ]

[Toady One]

If the save never went through 101.19b or 101.19c, I'd like to take a look at it.  Otherwise, it's probably just a flat out mess due to errors in those versions.  It shouldn't be a memory issue or anything like that, since your computer made it through world gen and much more was in memory at that time.

[Stromko]

I generated a new world recently, but I think that might've been in the 'd' version that you just mentioned. This adventurer didn't exist at that time but it could be the problem

Oh well.