residual/residual — Issue #415: GRIM: Beaver area possibly causes save corruptions
Author: Grimfan33
Created: 2011-11-05 01:03:33+00:00
State: open

I started to experience problems with saves after I got to the Beaver dam area, where Save games would be very slow to save and load and where I some saves would all out crash and couldn't be loaded, even after restarting residual.

In addition, successive saves based on that game run seemed to also experience slow loading / slow saving or crashes....even when saving in a different save slot.

Specifically I noticed it started to happen when I was at the part where Manny is tosses the bones into the river to extinguish the fire beavers with the fire extinguisher.

I think I've been fortunate enough to get around the problem, since I had one old save right at the start of Rubicava Year Two from a previous speed run I had done the day before up to the beginning of year two (to test out residual) that I kept that didn't seem have problems.....I played the game run that was giving me save problems up to the start of Rubicava Year Two WITHOUT saving and deleted all the saves from that game run that was giving me problems....then I simply loaded the old save from the previous speed run I had from the beginning of Rubicava Year Two (since Manny starts the beginning of each year the same anyway on each play-through.)

I uploaded two saves from the game run that was giving me problems, it's from where Manny first arrives at Rubicava in Year One....sorry, I deleted the saves from the Beaver dam area and was past that area before it had occurred to me to duplicate a corrupted save crash for a bug report....however, these two saves are from the game run I was experiencing corrupted saves in and have the problems I experienced.

I labeled each of the two saves in the options menu according to the problem.
This one was loading VERY slowly (and should be labeled as such when loaded in the options menu):
http://www.smallfiles.org/download/88/grim07.gsv.html
This one would completely crash and couldn't be loaded, even after starting residual (should be labeled "Save Crash"):
http://www.smallfiles.org/download/89/grim08.gsv.html

I'm hoping that maybe there is something in there that helps identify the problem. Sorry for the long post.