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No go. I completely rebuilt the game from scratch with anti-virus turned off before I started. I then loaded the 2 files from Nomad, (test saves, slot's 12 and 13). Both were in my saved game slot's, but both would not load, with the same "saved game failed to load" message. I did notice, that it took less time for the hour glass to stay on the screen, than it has before, when the failed message appeared in the past. I do not know if this is a hint, as to what might be wrong.
I should have tried to load the saves when I had the game at 1.00, then again at 1.40, and at 1.50, and 1.60, just to see if I could isolate the problem in one of the patches. I will try this again next time around. During the work week, I only have so much time, to rebuild the game over and over again. I have the 16 digit serial number memorized now, after so many re-boot's.
I did receive the utility program. Thank you again Nomad. This will be the next effort to break loose the logjam. I will not rebuild the game again tonight however. I can only take so much frustration at a time.
When I do work up the internal fortitiude to tackle this mess again, I will certainly report back to this forum, with the new results. Dave and I will not accept not being able to play WitP. Although, we may start a new UV game, in the mean time, as we need our Fix! Regard's all, Ralph

Not to give you wigglies, but LtFightr sent me an email that his hard drive was borked. Not that WitP caused it. But that the drive was messed up, and was thus the file was corrupted at time of save.

Come to think on it, try running a utility to see if there are bad-sectors and such. It could be that you're writing to a bad spot...

Dunno.

-F-

Success at last![:D]

Looks like it was a corrupted 1.3 patch. Ralph uses AOL dialup to download his patches. I've got cable. I burned copies of my patches on a CD for him, he then reinstalled the game using the patches on that CD, and now it works. He would open the game after each patch install, and noticed a big lessoning of the time for the game to open when he used the 1.3 patch off the CD compared to the 1.3 patch he had downloaded using AOL. Now that we've finally figured this out it makes sense, 1.3 is a very large file (76.5 MB). AOL just couldn't handle it.

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Almost forgot to say thank you to everyone for your interest and help. Special thanks to Nomad for receiving, sending, and testing files, and thank you all very much.[&o]

I'm glad to hear that you got it fixed. Now it is time to attack!