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Game plays fine, seems to save OK. Loading game save causes CTD every time.

Error message attached for above CTD...

Could you upload that crash-causing saved game here?
Saves are in data\saves\slotX directories.

I'm sorry, but I deleted it and started over. However, I did some experimenting, and found that as long as I keep the save file name a certain length, no more CTD's occur. The initial save had only three alphanumerics, whereas subsequent ones are five alphanumerics or longer - no more CTD's since.

Seems strange, but it's the only thing I've done differently, and it works...so I'm a happy camper...

I am having this same problem, and can (apparently) confirm the filename fix. Although I had a "clean" save that I could load, any savegame I made from that point would fail to load. Saving games with five characters in the filename seems to work.

But here's where things get interesting: I decided to see if I could narrow down how many characters in the filename caused the problem by creating new saves with decreasing name lengths. In the course of messing around, I discovered that I couldn't replicate the problem--suddenly I'm no longer able to create corrupted saves. I'll load the same old, unaltered, savegame from which I was originally able to create bad saves, and now nothing. Same for any other (working) savegame. The corrupt saves are still corrupt (I've saved a couple) but I can't make any more.

The above seems a little confusing, so to restate it: I had several saves that would load, but all new saves I made from them were corrupt. I created a save with five characters in the name, and it was not corrupt. After that, EVERY save I made, no matter which game I loaded to start the game, was NOT corrupt. I kept a couple of the corrupt saves, and they are still corrupt.

I'd like to attach a copy of the save here, but it won't let me upload the file. I saw someone else mention they had to rename a savegame as a ".txt" file, but, uh, apparently I don't know how to do that...just keep creating a file called "game.txt.sav" [:o] So if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong there, let me know. Anyway, I'm attaching a copy of the error log.

Hm! I spoke too soon. Problem popped back up. I did a bunch more messing around, and now it looks like it's associated with selling my raider. No sale = no corrupt save. I'm pretty sure that would be consistent with my earlier problems and apparent solutions. I had sold the old raider before the problem cropped up, and in my hurry to try the filename fix, I skipped some of the base management stuff I'd been doing. Looks like that just happened to coincide with me trying the five-character filenames. In fact, if I load the game, sell the raider, and save the game even with a five-character name, it still gets corrupted. Oops... [:o]

So anyway, yeah. In my case, it looks like I'm stuck with a spare raider for a while at least. And again, if anyone can tell Windows-challenged me how to rename a savegame file to get rid of that pesky .sav so I can attach it here, I'd appreciate it.

OK, I have a saved gamed (2 actually) that always crash when I try to load them. One is attached and here is the debug info:

Console started
UFO:Extraterrestrials game engine v 1.0 - Apr 15 2007, 11:17:11
Initializing filesys
[00:00:00.000] Creating main window
[00:00:00.009] Switching console to window output
[00:00:00.009] Loading configuration from data\ufo-et.ini
[00:00:00.010] Initializing events
[00:00:00.010] Initializing graphics
[00:00:00.380] Vertex shader version: 3.0
[00:00:00.381] Pixel shader version: 3.0
[00:00:00.381] Antialiasing enabled - Samples: 2, Quality: 0
[00:00:00.473] HLSL shader 'shaders\tree.fxs' is using technique: T0 (Passes: 1)
[00:00:00.527] HLSL shader 'shaders\planetselect.fxs' is using technique: TEsperanzaSelect20 (Passes: 1)
[00:00:00.557] HLSL shader 'shaders\earth.fxs' is using technique: TEarth20 (Passes: 1)
[00:00:00.594] HLSL shader 'shaders\instancing.fxs' is using technique: TInstancing11 (Passes: 1)
[00:00:00.596] HLSL shader 'shaders\bullet.fxs' is using technique: T0 (Passes: 1)
[00:00:00.598] HLSL shader 'shaders\fire.fxs' is using technique: T0 (Passes: 1)
[00:00:00.620] HLSL shader 'shaders\atm.fxs' is using technique: TAtmosphere14 (Passes: 1)
[00:00:00.672] HLSL shader 'shaders\planet.fxs' is using technique: TEsperanzaStates20 (Passes: 1)
[00:00:00.672] Pixel shaders loaded: 1
[00:00:00.672] Vertex shaders loaded: 1
[00:00:00.672] Effect shaders loaded: 8
[00:00:00.672] Switching console to graphic output
[00:00:00.673] Initializing input
[00:00:00.681] Initializing scripts
[00:00:03.144] Version EN-20070418
[00:00:03.418] Loaded texture set: nodxtc (2)
[00:00:03.736] Loaded texture set: globe (15)
[00:00:04.107] Initialization done
[00:00:20.159] Loading game, slot2
[00:00:26.159] 24.August 2108 Game started
[00:00:27.243] Object is null
[00:00:27.243] LoadGlobeShipLists (globe\globe.xscr 747:78)
CreateGlobeObjectsFromSave (globe\globe.xscr 778:23)
GlobeInit (globe\globe.xscr 391:31)
GlobeGUIInit (globe\globegui.xscr 98:14)
LoadGameGlobe (base\createandloadvariables.xscr 1195:17)
LoadGame (base\createandloadvariables.xscr 1286:22)
loadSavedGameClicked (gamedialogs.xscr 586:13)

[00:00:27.243] Int values:2
Float values:10
String values:2
Bool values:1
Object values:10
List values:2
Null values:1

[00:00:27.247] Waiting for sounds to stop playing
[00:00:27.784] Done waiting for messages.
[00:00:28.204] scripts done
[00:00:28.205] Switching console to window output
[00:00:29.902] graphics done
[00:00:29.915] input done
[00:00:29.915] event done
[00:00:29.916] Exiting with error

Uh, ok, I can't attach a save game nor a zipped copy of it (the attachment thingie says gif/txt/jpg only).

I'll change it to allow zip attachments, please try re-uploading in a few minutes.