Save game problem

[shazza]

Hello.

Some of you may remember me from a year or two ago, or maybe not.... Anyway, ever since upgrading from 1.10 rc2 to 1.2, none of my save games load. They start to load with the red screen, then it quits out.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
shazza

[Dominus]

did you upgrade just the exult version or also the U7 version? If you played just BG and then suddenly switched to FoV or the other way round you may get those problems.
And as we probably told you last time, what does stdout.txt and stderr.txt say?

[shazza]

Nope I only upgraded the Exult version.

stderr.txt
--------
Trailing slash in path: "data\"
...compensating, but go complain to Colourless anyway
============================
An exception occured:
Error opening file c:\ultima 7\gamedat\scrnshot.shp
errno: 13
============================


stdout.ext
--------
Exult version 1.2
Built at: Jun 12 2004 03:31:19
Compile-time options: NO_SDL_PARACHUTE, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT
Compiler: Microsoft C/C++ Compiler, version: 13.0.9466

Platform: Windows 98 Version 4.10 Build 1998
Exult path settings:
Data : data\.
Digital music : data\\music

3 Midi Devices Detected
Listing midi devices:
-1: MIDI Mapper
0: AWE64 MIDI Synth [640]
1: AWE64 MIDI Out [300]
2: Creative Music Synth [240]
Using device -1: MIDI Mapper
Music player: Internal Win32 Midiout Midi Player for Exult and Pentagram.
Black Gate : found
exult_bg.flx : found
Serpent Isle : found
exult_si.flx : found
Starting a BLACK GATE game
Game path settings:
Static : c:\ultima 7\static
Gamedat : c:\ultima 7\gamedat
Savegame: c:\ultima 7
Patch : c:\ultima 7\patch

Gamedat identity FORGE
Support for SI Paperdolls and Multiracial Avatars in BG is enabled.
Loading /exult_bg.flx...
Loading default keybindings
Cheats enabled.

[wjp]

> Error opening file c:\ultima 7\gamedat\scrnshot.shp

Strange. A couple of questions:

Does c:\ultima 7\gamedat exist? If yes, is it read-only?
Does c:\ultima 7\gamedat\scrnshot.shp exist? If yes, is it read-only?

[shazza]

Does c:\ultima 7\gamedat exist?
Yes
If yes, is it read-only?
No
Does c:\ultima 7\gamedat\scrnshot.shp exist?
Yes
If yes, is it read-only?
Yes!! I believe this maybe the core to the problem

[shazza]

...Or not.

[Dominus]

delete all files in \gamedat and try loading again.
And if you can send me one or two of your problem-savegames.

[wjp]

if scrnshot.shp is read-only, there's a good chance all the other files in gamedat are read-only as well.

[shazza]

All fixed. I deleted all the gamedat files and put them back. Thanks for your help.