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[Dr_Enquinox]

Hello Toady,
first of all compliment on your great game. I've played it for five hours straight since I downloaded it today.
Sadly, I'm plagued by this bug. Everytime I save and try to load later, the game tells me "One of the compressed files on disk has errors in it. Restore from backup if you are able".

Therefore I can't load any of my fortresses and the 5 hours of gameplay are wasted. Someone here in the forum suggested it might have something to do with x64 OS. I'm using XP Professional x64. Compatibility mode does nothing.

Thanks in advance,
Dr_Enquinox

[Toady One]

I've heard about this once before, but I have no idea what I can do on my end to help, whether it's some sort of compiler option or a change to the file code, and I don't have an OS to test it on.

[Jifodus]

I have Windows XP x64 Professional also, yet I've not experienced any save file corruption.

Do the save files have any data in it (data\save\region*)?

[Dr_Enquinox]

Thanks for the replies. I will provide any help I can. First of all, here are the corrupted save files (the entire folder). Can I provide anything more? A logfile of some sorts? I really want to play this amazing game.
http://www.djuniversum.de/mountaindju/zip/save.rar

Jifodus, are you using a laptop? How much RAM do you have?

If you guys don't know the answer to my dilemma, I will try the game out with Ubuntu using WINE. Then we'll see if it's the machines fault or Windows'.

It seems to have something to do with world generation. I just had the same bug, right after I auto-created a new world and wanted to play on it. I'm trying it with Linux now.
[ April 26, 2008: Message edited by: Dr_Enquinox ]

[ April 26, 2008: Message edited by: Dr_Enquinox ]

[PTTG??]

I'm just going to toss this out there, but how much spare space do you have on your hard drive? If you have less that about, oh say 10 Mb, the problem could be lack of space. Good luck!

[Dr_Enquinox]

No, there are several GB left. I tried it on Linux (same "installation" of the game, running with WINE). No problems. Finally, I can play the game.  

[Heavy Flak]

Just throwing out a completely random suggestion.  if you open up my computer and right click your C drive (or whatever you installed it on) -> properties, is the button at the bottom "Compress drive to save disk space" checked?

There could be an issue, as random as it is, with compressed files not being able to be read.

[Jifodus]

Ok, I just ran the data files through a save analyzer tool I've written (it's just basic decoding). "world.sav" is experiencing data corruption. I have no idea what could be causing it.

Out of curiosity, have tried running scan disk/disk check?

My x64 machine is my desktop and it has 1GB of ram (it's also an early Athalon 64 processor).

[ April 28, 2008: Message edited by: Jifodus ]

[Aquillion]

Ah!  That's nearly the same problem I was having!  It wasn't every save, but it happened fairly often.  (I've been very busy and haven't had too much chance to play DF since then, so I don't know how bad it is.)  And if I somehow neglected to mention it, of course I'm on Windows XP x64 professional edition, too.  Processor is an Intel Core 2 quad CPU, 2.4 GHz.  4 GB of ram, if that matters.  

Dr_Enquinox, what's your processor?  Any other important details?  We need to find out what we have in common and Jifodus doesn't.

[ April 28, 2008: Message edited by: Aquillion ]

[Dr_Enquinox]

Aquillon, I'm running the game on this laptop:

Name: Samsung R70 T7500 Damaya

Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Prozessor T7500 2,2 GHz 800 MHz FSB 4 MB Cache

Chip: Intel PM965 + ICH8M

2x1024 MB RAM PC2-5300 (667 MHz), DDR2 SODIMM

Graphic: Nvidia® GeForce® 8600M GS 256MB

[ April 30, 2008: Message edited by: Dr_Enquinox ]

[sybrid]

Just saw this thread and I am also having a similar problem, figured I may as well post and see if I can help establish a pattern of what is going wrong.  Although I have only run into it (so far) while playing a version of Dwarf Fortress with graphics added to it (the one by Mike Mayday).  I can usually generate a world and build a fortress with no trouble, but after I save a fortress, I can almost never load the save without getting the compressed file error.  I'll start playing the non-graphics version more often to see if the error occurs as frequently in the unmodified version of the game (

I'm running XP Prof x64 on an Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.66 Ghz.  The game is running on a desktop.

[Daedalus1134]

Hello, add me to the pile with the problem.

Same issues as above, get about a 50% chance of corrupted saves.

At least the hardware types are somewhat similar.

Windows XP64
2 gig ram
Intel quad core CPU

The hard drive has space, and the compress hard drive windows option is turned off.

One of the other threads on the issue mentioned turning WIN95 compatibility mode on, we'll see if that fixes anything.

Edit: The windows 95 compatibility mode didn't make any noticeable difference.

[ June 04, 2008: Message edited by: Daedalus1134 ]

[TheBoff]

I've got a similar problem : Windows x64 Pro, 2 gigs ram, 8800GTX.

It's so frustrating!

[Calessa Lynn Orphiel]

Looks like in might be related to Intel processors on 64-bit XP -- I think I have a friend with a similar setup.  I'll see if it will duplicate there later tonight.

[Nakor]

I'm going to rule out the idea that it's Intel only.  Same problem, here's my rig:

Windows XP Pro x64 SP2
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ 2.80GHz
2.00GB RAM
NVidia 8500GT

Let me know if there's anything I can provide/do to help solve the mystery.