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kafka:
hi,

well, I haven't built any hospitals but cannot load my save game too

Phantom:
I got 4 bases now all with hospitals and the works, am at the 45rd save and I can say it is still running smoothly ! :lol:
I researched all the weapons available: Laser, Plasma, Particle. Aliens are all researched to. Researching breathing aparatus now. What I didnt do this time: OPEN UP THE RESEARCH INFO SCREEN or ALT TAB TO WINDOWS !
I changed all bases names like: Central Africa, USofA, etc...
Still the game runs very good and smooth ! :lol:

As a hobby programer I look for weird things in game, that may occure and render parts of the memory usless, that we cant see untill its needed by the game and makes it crash or do weird stuff. I think the savegame failure is some memory leak that makes savegames useless, but heck I am hobby programer (not even shure thats the wright name for my skills)  not a pro like you guys ! :roll:

Some bugs as reported by the game itself:
- Some of my soldiers have 101 of assault weapon skill, the game reports it in the game screen as a white text... I DID NOT HACK THE SAVE FILE !
- The further I come in the game, the more stuff is missing, like music and some "weapon ammo" (reported in console and in war screen as white text). Also this can create memory leaks if buffers are created for stuff that return errors. Maybe the buffers are not deleted or deleted with no buffer present ? ( :> Not enough memory to save the file <: )

Some stuff i find tricky to memory usage as it is on my end:
- Some pictures, in the research info screens, come in with some weird blob middle right of the screen. Sometimes it happens in war screen to.
I just hope its a blob and not some picture I cant uderstand the use of :lol:
- Entering a text, be it new base name or save game, it needs several SHIFT+Alpha key presses to make the caps letter accepted by the game.
Also reported error as missing missions and mission names, reports weird characters that are not even in the save file itself (checked with value checker not notepad this time)... But if the log file reports the correct value as a weird UNIcode char I dont know.
This makes me guess there is an ANSI <-> UNICode translation error that occures sometimes on the background :roll: May be wurth looking in to ;)

I hope this helps you track this nasty little alien bug and kill it so we all can continue this very good piece of work and kill the big alien bugs ! :lol:
But so far I am cool as it works fine :lol:

Mattn:
we need a real serializer for our savegames - but currently this is only a memory dump.

a serializer would also help to make savefiles exchangeable and let them work with newer versions, too

if someone wants to contribute... this is a good starting point ;-)

Phantom:
I am dutch and dont understand, stil I seem to grasp you need more input ?

What is serialising ?
What do you need from us ?

I'll help all I can to locate or contribute locating this bug !
First a view questions of my own:
- Can we back up our save games, like save 8 files, rename and do another 8 save file ?
- Where do we send our save files to, I dont have web space ?
Asuming thats what you need and mean with serialize...

Console dump ? I am lost :lol:

Zenerka:

--- Quote from: "Phantom" ---IWhat I didnt do this time: OPEN UP THE RESEARCH INFO SCREEN or ALT TAB TO WINDOWS !
--- End quote ---

What research info screen? You mean mail client (mail icon on geoscape) or ufopedia?

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