1.0.4.9 Saving process stalled indefinately on Huge Galaxies

[flankspeed]

Similar problem to the post by Astax but I didn't want to hijack his thread.

Both auto and manual saves refuse to function after a ways into the game, say when i have about 50 colonies. When saving the spinning galaxy just starts moving slower and slower. Task manager reports the program is not responding.

After restarting the game if I try to load the save created I get the message "This is not a valid Distant Worlds game file"

Windows 7 64bit 12gb Ram

[flankspeed]

Fixed Double checked that I didn't have any programs running in the background...and I did. Turned those off and it seems fine now.

Note to self "Don't have anything running in the background when playing games noob!" [:-]

[taltamir]

what programs specifically were those? because I have tons of things running in the background with no problem...

[flankspeed]

Best guess would be either Kaspersky internet security or Diskeeper defragger. Had a couple of performance tweaking programs that came with my motherboard also.

[flankspeed]

False alarm...still having this problem. Even after reinstalling. Kaspersky just seemed to be making it worse.

Seem to be some kind of memory issue. I can usually get 2 or 3 auto saves in before I get this problem. Then if I restart the game and load the latest save I can get another 2 or 3 saves in...which works ok if I don't crash from some other error between saves.

[taltamir]

ORIGINAL: flankspeed

False alarm...still having this problem. Even after reinstalling. Kaspersky just seemed to be making it worse.

Seem to be some kind of memory issue. I can usually get 2 or 3 auto saves in before I get this problem. Then if I restart the game and load the latest save I can get another 2 or 3 saves in...which works ok if I don't crash from some other error between saves.

This sometimes happens... I recommend playing smaller galaxy sizes, no more than 250 stars (which averages about 750 colonizable planets), because above that saves and loads just take too long (supposedly greatly reduced load and save time and size in v1.05); my basis for recommending such a small galaxy is mostly the load/save times... I was crashing with 1400 stars, I don't know which sizes crash between 250 and 1400 stars because I couldn't bear the load/save times enough to even try it. They are working on it, the game is limited to 2GB until they make a 64bit exe (which they plan to)... That would help a lot... other then that they just have to do a lot of optimization and tweaks, close memory holes, etc. Which they are working on.