east front DCG game crashes

[kaleidoscope]

This is a screen shot that shows the difference between a good ccd file in the left pane
(this is the original ccd file that simovitch sent to me after he fixed it by removing
the blanks spaces). The right pane is the corrupted ccd file from my most recent crash.
The light cream colored area highlights the difference between the good ccd and the
bad.



Anyway, its beyond my expertise to manually delete the blank spaces in the
bad corrupted file. I have simply been taking the good file simovitch sent me, deleting
everything above the ORGANIZATION INFORMATION line in that good ccd file and
replacing it with with everything above
the ORGANIZATION INFORMATION line from the corrupted file.

So basically its salvaging the current campaign info from the bad ccd file, and inserting that current campaign
info back into a known good previous ccd file (the one Simovitch corrected for me)

Since no one has examined your ccd file and corrected it (as simovich did with mine) then you
couldnt use the same technique as I am using to fix your campagn. Sorry I cant be more helpful.
I dont even know if your campaign CCD file is suffering the same empty space corruption as mine is,
and even if it is, I couldnt fix it because there is no good previous ccd file to work with.

Good luck!

[simovitch]

ORIGINAL: kaleidoscope
I have simply been taking the good file simovitch sent me, deleting
everything above the ORGANIZATION INFORMATION line in that good ccd file and replacing it with with everything above
the ORGANIZATION INFORMATION line from the corrupted file.

So basically its salvaging the current campaign info from the bad ccd file, and inserting that current campaign
info back into a known good previous ccd file (the one Simovitch corrected for me)

Hmmm.... there may be a flaw with this reasoning. I believe that everything below the ORGANIZATION INFORMATION line in the .ccd file updates after each mission, including determining the next equipment upgrade. More importantly if you keep reusing everything below the ORGANIZATION INFORMATION line you should never experience any increase in morale/leadership that your character and core group earn after each mission. But you do keep the experience point gain.

I would have thought that step losses in your core group units would also be effected, in that you keep going back to that old strength from the re-used ccd file.

[kaleidoscope]

ok, my knowledge of what info is actually in
the ccd file and how it impacts the game is
almost nil. I havent noticed any ill effects
modifying the ccd file this way though. Not
saying the pitfalls you mentioned dont exist,
but just that I havent noticed them.


My units seem to be upgrading normally, that much
I have noticed.