UFO:Alien Invasion
Archive => Bugs in older version (2.4) => Topic started by: cmmps on May 10, 2012, 10:50:00 pm
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Hi there!
I was an addict of the old X-Com game... I found this UFO:AI on Arch Linux repos and got addict again! :D
Well, I was running UFO:AI version 2.3.1 and after a full system update I got the new version 2.4.
I started to see my saved games slots empty. I browsed the ".ufoai" folder and found the folders for versions 2.3.1 and 2.4.
I copied the "save" folder from 2.3.1 to 2.4 and now I see my saved games but I can't load them! Any attempt will bring me back to the start screen.
I took a look on the log file and found an error:
2012/05/10 21:08:11 Invalid base index -1
2012/05/10 21:08:11 ...subsystem 'base' returned false - savegame could not be loaded
I spent a lot of hours on the campaign I was playing... I really hope it is possible to fix this error.
System information:
Processor AMD FX6100 (64bits)
4Gb RAM
Display adapter: NVidia 560GTX with 1Gb
OS: Linux
Distro: Arch Linux
Kernel Version: 3.3.5
Log file and saved games attached...
Kind regards,
Carlos Santos
A new UFO:AI addict! :)
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afaik savegames are not compatible between releases. If you want to finish your 2.3 games, you probably should reinstall 2.3.
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Oh, did you go from 2.3 to 2.4 via an update (apt-get, ubuntu update manager or the like)? If so, it's rather likely you should reinstall anyway, I found out myself the hard way that it shouldn't have been updated like that - you should reinstall go from one version to another.
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afaik savegames are not compatible between releases. If you want to finish your 2.3 games, you probably should reinstall 2.3.
Thats right - 2.3 Savegames are not compatible with 2.4.
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Hi
Thanks a lot for the information.
It's petty I'm going to loose so many hours of game, but with the new graphics and new items... who cares? I'm starting all over again! ;)
Oh, did you go from 2.3 to 2.4 via an update (apt-get, ubuntu update manager or the like)?
Dude, I wrote my Linux distro... is Arch Linux... ;)
I don't like Ubuntu anyway... :P
Thanks again and for the team: Congratulation on 2.4!! Excelent work here! Nice graphics, great animations!
I don't play World of Warcraft for more than a week because of UFO:AI... LOL!!
Kind regards,
Carlos
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Nevertheless, does anyone thought about creating a tool to migrate the 2.3 saved games to 2.4?
There should be a way...
I can try to make such tool, all I need is a description of the saved games files.
With whom should I speak to?
Regards,
Carlos
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geever?
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I can try to make such tool, all I need is a description of the saved games files.
That would be an awesome feature.
May I suggest you use the same license for the tool as the game use, the "GNU GPL version 2 or later". That way it will be included in the various distributions as well. :)
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From 2.3->2.4 the problem is simply that way too many things has changed, and I couldn't tell you all of them. Even if you made a converter with the ones we find there could be hidden problems which would cause strange behaviour of the game. I'll write a list of breaks we do since 2.4 so I can make such a tool for 2.5.
-geever