BG: Crash on loading saved game / journey onward

[CheshireKatt]

I've recently been trying the new snapshots rather than using 0.98rc1 (for, among other things, the ability to wear something other than a backpack on my back, to hold more items), and have found that I'm having some rather funky save problems with it.

Or more precisely, when I try to LOAD my saves, it all goes pear-shaped. I get the red loading screen (either from Load Game or from Journey Onward), then drop to desktop.

stderr.txt seems to show the problem:

Setting Shape to 721
Setting Shape to 721
Setting Shape to 721
Setting Shape to 721
Setting Shape to 721
Error reading saved monsters. Clearing list.
Exult Exception: Error opening file D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\gamedat\schedule.dat
Trying /schedule.dat
Setting Shape to 721
Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)

My stdout.txt doesn't look at all abnormal, but here it is:

Exult version 0.99cvs
Built at: Apr 26 2002 17:27:00
Compile-time options: DEBUG, USE_EXULTSTUDIO, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT
Compiler: gcc, version: 2.95.3-6 (mingw special)

Platform: Windows XP Version 5.1 Build 2600
Data path = data
Audio system assembled. Audio buffer at 22048
5 Midi Devices Detected
Listing midi devices:
-1: Microsoft MIDI Mapper
0: Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth
1: A: SB Live! MIDI Synth
2: B: SB Live! MIDI Synth
3: SB Live! Soft Synth
4: SB Live! MIDI UART
Using device -1: Microsoft MIDI Mapper
Internal Win32 Midiout Midi Player for Exult and Pentagram.
Created PCB 0
Created PCB 1
Created PCB 2
Created PCB 3
Created PCB 4
Created PCB 5
Audio initialisation OK
is_installed: 'D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\static\endgame.dat': yes
is_installed: 'd:\games\ultima\serpent\static\sispeech.spc' : yes
Audio subsystem request: Custom Music track
Starting a BLACK GATE game
Okay. It looks like an IFF file chunk
length looks like: 1807418
Current path settings:
Static : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\static
Gamedat : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\gamedat
Savegame: D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7
Patch : none

::0 end_consumption
::1 end_consumption
::2 end_consumption
::3 end_consumption
::4 end_consumption
::5 end_consumption
Audio subsystem request: Music track # 3
is_installed: 'd:\games\ultima\serpent\static\sispeech.spc' : yes
Skin is: 3 Sex is: 0
Creating 'gamedat' files.
Loading exult.flx...
Loading /exult_bg.flx...
Found Serpent Isle 'paperdol.vga', 'gumps.vga' and 'shapes.vga'.
Support for 'Serpent Isle' Paperdolls and Multiracial Avatars in 'Black Gate' ENABLED.
Loading default keybindings
a
Egg type is 5, prob = 100, distance = 0, crit = 0, once = 0, hatched = 0, areset = 0, data1 = 0, data2 = 1730
Egg type is 5, prob = 100, distance = 0, crit = 0, once = 1, hatched = 0, areset = 0, data1 = 0, data2 = 1025
Egg type is 1, prob = 75, distance = 0, crit = 0, once = 0, hatched = 0, areset = 0, data1 = 2820, data2 = 496
Created Pipe for Exult Server
Cheats enabled.
(x,y) rel. to gump is (76, 11)
Listing 20 Save games
0 = 18 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult18bg.sav : Damn Sprellic
1 = 19 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult19bg.sav : This save should be valid in .98
2 = 16 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult16bg.sav : Arrgh
3 = 17 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult17bg.sav : Jhelom
4 = 15 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult15bg.sav : Gambling, I hope
5 = 14 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult14bg.sav : Maybe it hates Destard/
6 = 13 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult13bg.sav : Trying again
7 = 3 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult03bg.sav : Tons of dragons
8 = 12 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult12bg.sav : Test Save
9 = 11 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult11bg.sav : This Ship Is EEEEEEVIL
10 = 10 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult10bg.sav : Rat Race Doesn't Work
11 = 1 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult01bg.sav : Brief gambling stop, then Paws
12 = 9 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult09bg.sav : Sick of this storm
13 = 7 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult07bg.sav : Buh-bye, Exodus
14 = 8 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult08bg.sav : Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow
15 = 5 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult05bg.sav : Arcadion
16 = 6 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult06bg.sav : The Isle of Fire
17 = 0 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult00bg.sav : Gimme that key, fish
18 = 4 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult04bg.sav : Tower
19 = 2 : D:\Games\Ultima\Ultima7\exult02bg.sav : Stupid password
First Free Game 20
(x,y) rel. to gump is (71, 45)
Hit a save game field
(x,y) rel. to gump is (71, 45)
(x,y) rel. to gump is (69, 203)
(x,y) rel. to gump is (69, 191)


I have set my paths in my config correctly (the game functions fine as is, no spaces in path, and so forth, it just gets uppity when loading under the latest few snapshots). I'm running the Windows build, on Windows XP Professional.

I can provide a savegame if needed, as well (I'd have submitted this to the bugtracker, but I'm not sure the proper way to submit somewhat unspecific errors there, as I don't know the REASON for this bug, just that it happens).

Thanks,
Chesh

[Eric]

Just for curiosity sake, try starting a new game, save, quit, and then Journey Onward. If that works then your save game may be corrupt. If that doesn't work then it's something else.

[CheshireKatt]

Starting a new game, saving, and loading that game works fine -- I'm quite sure that the save game is corrupt, that's why I brought it up, since fixing whatever it is that causes it to save corrupt games would be nice.

The only thing pointing to it that I can see is that message in the stderr.txt that there was an error reading saved monsters, and that it had a problem with the schedule.dat

--Chesh