UFO:Alien Invasion
Technical support => Feature Requests => Topic started by: Garfield667 on April 05, 2007, 02:16:07 pm
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Hello, sorry if this has been cleared before but i have looked it up here and in the wiki and found similar, but not fitting topics.
The problem is: if i try to load a savegame it seems to work/load, but i can't get into the global mode to continue gaming. The "fortsetzen" button is missing. So I can only go back to the main menu and quit.
I am using the latest Version of UFOai, downloaded some 3 days ago, on a Windows XP, P4 with a Radeon 9600Pro.
Hopefully I overlooked some solution for it would be tough waiting for the finished project. Very promising and well done!
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is there any output on the game console?
open it with the ^-key or shift+esc
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it says something like: unable to load campign slot 0; unknown stage.
changing to singleplayer
I will try to save multiple slots now, to see if this is exclusively on slot 0 or on all slots.
Schönen Tag noch und viel Erfolg!
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it says something like: unable to load campign slot 0; unknown stage.
changing to singleplayer
I'm having the exactly same problem.
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Maybe it is stupid question, but do you both use the savegame from current version? For sure not from the other version of the game (you saved before)?
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I'm also facing a problem with savegames on XP. It happens with savegames from the last version
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I have sadly never played a previous version of UFOai. The savegame is from the current version.
Also if it is of use, there are still people to hire, stuff to buy etc. nothing strange has occured during the game. I played 2 missions without any crashes or glitches, after that the savegame can't be loaded. I saved in the worldmap with no events (UFO sightings etc.) going on.
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I have sadly never played a previous version of UFOai. The savegame is from the current version.
Also if it is of use, there are still people to hire, stuff to buy etc. nothing strange has occured during the game. I played 2 missions without any crashes or glitches, after that the savegame can't be loaded. I saved in the worldmap with no events (UFO sightings etc.) going on.
All the things are exactly the same in my save game too. So the same version and nothing weird.
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Did you build hospital in your bases?
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Since it happens with many savegames, I cannot say if there was an hospital in each one, but I'm sure it was the case in some of them.
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Hi,
I've exactly the same problem. I downloaded the game yesterday and installed without problems. I had no previous version installed before.
I had absolutely no problems playing the game. Great game btw, thank you.
Unfortunately I'm not able to load my save game. In the ufoconsole.log file it says
CL_CampaignActivateStage: stage '. ' not found.
Unable to load campaign 'slot0', unknown stage '. '
Changing to Singleplayer
Savefile version 6 detected
Global data loaded - size (null)u bytes
...techs: 134
...buildings: 18
...ranks: 8
...nations: 8
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Thanks for all your reports and feedback, people. For sure there is something wrong with saving game process (or loading) - not everything is being parsed correctly, it seems. The strange thing is that for sure works two-three days before release, I heavily tested everything. Currently I am out of ideas what can cause this, but that kind of issue for sure has to be solved for 2.1.1 release (which is mainly designed for bugfixing, no new features).
Maybe you can experiment more in various ways. Try to not build/produce/research anything in bases, but go to missions, save, load, check whether bug still occurs. Then try to narrow things a bit. Try to unhire all personel, let several missions pass through and then save/load (maybe autoheal feature?). Try to finish the missions without being injured (/killteam 7 in the console kills alien team). And so on.
At this point any feedback would be helpful.
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hi,
well, I had finished my first mission this morning when I saved last. The prior saves worked. Since it is my first game, I didn't do too much. I only made some changes to the equipment, I did not purchase any new buildings, started the first research project (laser tech), and ordered some items for production. I saved a few times before without any problems. After the first mission this morning I got some alien items to analyse. After the mission I just equipped one soldier with a new armor produced. Finally I quit. May be it's related to the alien items.
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May be this will be usefull. Savegame may load if I click Alt+Shift before write the name of savegame. In this case letters remain english, but such save can load: sometimes load game, sometimes desktop :) .
P.S. Sory for bad english.
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Yes, I confirm. There is a bug in loading or saving game.
Sys: WinXP SP1
It occurs when I want to load saved game - After click to Load button it backs to options screen... There is more - it occurs on EVERY saved game! So, I must start from beginning, because I could not load any saved game.
It's very annoying when I have plasma cannon, nano-armor and I must start from nothing again... :)
You've done a great job... I may help with polish translation.
Regards,
K.
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I have the same problem. I'm unable to load a saved game somewhere in July 2084 in Standard campaign. The error was the same as above (unable to load stage something). I built the hospital, yes. I didn't researched any plasma weapons yet. The nanocomposite armor was already researched.
Is there any debug mode I could switch on to be more verbose in console about the error?
System is Ubuntu Linux Edgy 6.10 having the official binary version 2.1.
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This is probably the same bug
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1694501&group_id=157793&atid=805242
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It is the same bug. I played the game through a couple of times now, and it always getd to a point were the save game will not load. I started cycling through save slots. I have examples of the last savegame to work and the first broken savegame. I will upload them to the sourceforge bug tracker. hopefully they can help you work it out.
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here is some text from the corresponding ufoconsole.log. slot1 is broken, but slot7, from 2 days earlier (game time) works. If this isnt enough info, see the actual savegames (uploaded to sourceforge bug tracker).
CL_CampaignActivateStage: stage 'ed_and_landed' not found.
Unable to load campaign 'slot1', unknown stage 'ed_and_landed'
Changing to Singleplayer
Savefile version 6 detected
Global data loaded - size (null)u bytes
...techs: 134
...buildings: 18
...ranks: 8
...nations: 8
Activate stage ufos_are_coming
Campaign 'slot7' loaded.
Initializing aircraft and aircraft-items ...
...aircraft and aircraft-items inited
Changing to Singleplayer
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Idem on all except:
XP SP1 = XP SP2 on my end...
The message in the logg file (With notepad opened):
==== ShutdownGame ====
Savefile version 6 detected
Global data loaded - size (null)u bytes
...techs: 134
...buildings: 18
...ranks: 8
...nations: 8
CL_CampaignActivateStage: stage '.. ' not found.
Unable to load campaign 'slot3', unknown stage '.. '
Changing to Singleplayer
Also I had a weird message on the research info screen on some item and taken no notice of it as it is still a game in progress ;)
I got a single line in sted of a big info it said "blablabla.txt" or something like that...
Also saving the game in empty slots gave me some errors after playing for a while to, as reported in another forum entry. Alldough running on a 2 Gig memory with 32 Gig HD free, still reported it had not enough memory to save on the HD. Leaking somewhere ? Maybe this error screws also the save games up ?
After all slots where full with save games, it stopped not saving them...
I hope all this toghether with other replies helps you fix this old memory lane game. Loved it then to play, love it now. Love it so mutch I restarted playing just for fun, but not saving and not shutting down my pc :lol: But i think there is something seriously wrong and my existing save games wil not work in version 2.1.1, I am afraid ! :shock:
Keep up the good work ! :lol:
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For what its wurth I looked in the save file 3:
Neither Notepad and Write can find the string reported as unknown '.. ' .
So looked for the .. only in both programs and found it 3 times. All is jibrish in the save files anyway, but no '.. ' at all ??
Hope that helps...
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I tried loading a game but it just goes back to the loading screen, same error as the previous user. I do not know how to fix it and I have very little knowledge and experience on code, so if someone does know the solution, can you give me a step by step process on how to fix this? I'm really far into the game, I don't even have anything else to research.
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I have the same problem, plus another one (?) also related to the savegames : some savegames are failing to load, and others also, but they crash the game. (win 2000)
A save that don't load is :
CL_CampaignActivateStage: stage '. ' not found.
Unable to load campaign 'slot1', unknown stage '. '
Changing to Singleplayer
Savefile version 6 detected
Global data loaded - size (null)u bytes
...techs: 134
...buildings: 18
...ranks: 8
...nations: 8
And a save that crash the game :
CL_CampaignActivateStage: stage '. ' not found.
Unable to load campaign 'slot1', unknown stage '. '
Changing to Singleplayer
Savefile version 6 detected
Global data loaded - size (null)u bytes
...techs: 134
...buildings: 18
...ranks: 8
...nations: 8
Warning: Mission '. ' not found
The last corrupted (first one, the one that don't crash the game) save was at the end of a mission where i captured an alien, enabling the research. And at the same time, there was an announce that UFO were in the atmosphere.
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Hey, I'm also suffering from this bug. Is this bug common enough that us victims will be seeing a bugfix release soon?
This latest release looks excellent, Its such a shame I cant test it properly!
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I've got the same problem, the game crashed after i try to load a Savegame - and indeed, i had a hospital in my 1st base ... all other savegames without a hospital do not crash!
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hi,
well, I haven't built any hospitals but cannot load my save game too
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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:
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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 ;-)
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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:
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IWhat I didnt do this time: OPEN UP THE RESEARCH INFO SCREEN or ALT TAB TO WINDOWS !
What research info screen? You mean mail client (mail icon on geoscape) or ufopedia?
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In the reasearch screen I did not open the info on research item, in other words I did not click the mail icon. Thats what I ment...
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what languages are you all using? i mean all those whos savegames are broken? are you using english or other languages?
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what languages are you all using? i mean all those whos savegames are broken? are you using english or other languages?
I'm using Polish, but I'll change it to English and see what happens...
I'll try, 3rd time, play from the beginning, this time, in English.
PS. But, after lang. change, old saved games not load...
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I'm using the french version.
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I' m using the german version
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As far as I can tell I am using the english/USA/internatinal version, I did not change it from default...
How ever on start up in log (first view lines of a 5.3 Mb log file):
Winsock Initialized
Hostname: xxxxxxx
IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
...could not set to language:
...could not set to system language
Console initialized.
I got a systems crash "Assertion failed" that is reported in another forum entry. I was requested to make this larger log file, hence the size of it :lol:
Notepad realy has a problem with these sizes :lol:
Hope it helps dough... ;)
ps.: Blanked out IP and Machine name, for obvious reasons :lol:
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I have got the broken savegames playing in english, not changing from default. (though I havent checked if I have the "could not set to language" startup log entry.
A reply for the Dutch Phantom on page 2:
Serialization (in this context) is saving the state of the game (ie your progress, in a more sensible way than a memory dump).
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization
I would suggest that if you don't know how to code in c, you will not be able to help. (You could always try and learn).
I would like to help too and am just starting to learn about SVN, and revise c.
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Thanks for the link !
After reading all of that, I come to one conclusion: am to stupid to help :cry:
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Phantom, let me get this straight. You had problems with saved games when you clicked in the mailclient icon on the geoscape, and you had no problems with saved games when you did not clicked that mailclient icon?
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Maybe this will help:
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/xmlserialization.asp
Is there any possilbility to get a sample save/load source code and customize it?
PS. I've never program with C.
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yes, xml serialization is easy and effective, I use it myself in my own projects though I do not program in c++ anymore but in c# and java. C and c++ are compared to c# and java nasty languages, particularly the missing automatic memory management is a real plague. I would like to help but not in c / c++.
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I as a USER look for ways to simplefy the search for errors.
One way is to click as view times as you can to change stuff, save & load and then report the failure if you get any. After that its up to the real programers to figure it. ;)
And YES I did all the game lets me at this point:
- Did wars, land and air...
- Did buy / sell equipment...
- Did build, even hospitals (4 of them)...
- Did hire and fire people...
- Did Build 4 bases and renamed them...
- Did research all the research available:
- All plasma
- All laser
- All particle (cant use the rifle as ammo is not researched it says)
- 3 Aliensraces
- Aliens and alien breathing aparatus
- Got no research left it says (for now) ;)
- Did catpure and study one race...
All these steps i did a SAVE and in the same go a LOAD to test the savegame I just saved.
At this point I was in the 46th save game with out any problems at all !
As the info screen (click on email icon lower right) in research gives me sometimes weird filenames and or weird picture blobs I avoided opening the info screen.
After openening the mentioned infoscreen, forced because of the particle rifle not working with out ammo, my game started having these save games errors again: Load and pup right in to the main menu...
Reading through the log file:
- I had errors on language at start up...
- I had errors with skill >100 (reported in wars)...
- I had errors on missing music on some war maps...
- I had some messages about map items beying missing...
- I had messages of buttons allready existing...
After a restart of an urlier save game all went ok until I got a more serious problem witch is posted in another forum entry, namly an ASSERTION FAILURE, what ever that is :lol:
But thats at save nr 50 something...
Thats all I can say as a game player ! I dont program C/C++ !
What I dont understand:
- Why are the particle rifles I have in stock one group light brown and another group dark brown ? But thats another forum entry question ;) :lol:
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Same problem here, running Ufo:AI 2.1 compiled from source under Gentoo with locale fr_FR.UTF-8.
This was my first install, I run the game, finish the first mission, saved, and when I came back to load, I was return to the menu and this in the console :
CL_CampaignActivateStage: stage '.
' not found.
Unable to load campaign 'slot1', unknown stage '.
'
This is not shown here but there is a ^K just after the point in the ' ' if I open the log in vim.
I used a named starting with a maj, and as i saw here that majs could broke the saves, I tried whitout, that seems to work, at least for a time because now after like 8 or 9 missions, and around the same amount of saves, the loading of the last save failed, with exactly the same problem (and the ^K).
I have built a new base, and an hospital (but at least 2/3 save before the bug appear) and i have accomplish some research.
But viewing all the report here and beeing a software engineer, my guess would be that it's not really related with what you have done or not. What really catch my attention is the fact that it's always a ^K that appear (which i guess correspond to the unicode someone told a few post before).
Anyway, as you, I think that a serialized save would be really better, and xml ones the best.
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I have the same problem - I can't load any of my saved games (which is very bad, because I played a lot, researched everything I could, and reached the "aliens are invading" stage). My ufoconsole.log shows a similar error when trying to load a saved game:
====== UFO Initialized ======
Savefile version 6 detected
Global data loaded - size (null)u bytes
...techs: 134
...buildings: 18
...ranks: 8
...nations: 8
CL_CampaignActivateStage: stage 'n' not found.
Unable to load campaign 'slot6', unknown stage 'n'
Changing to Singleplayer
Savefile version 6 detected
Global data loaded - size (null)u bytes
...techs: 134
...buildings: 18
...ranks: 8
...nations: 8
CL_CampaignActivateStage: stage 'n' not found.
Unable to load campaign 'slot5', unknown stage 'n'
Changing to Singleplayer
Savefile version 6 detected
Global data loaded - size (null)u bytes
...techs: 134
...buildings: 18
...ranks: 8
...nations: 8
CL_CampaignActivateStage: stage 'n' not found.
Unable to load campaign 'slot4', unknown stage 'n'
Changing to Singleplayer
Savefile version 6 detected
Global data loaded - size (null)u bytes
...techs: 134
...buildings: 18
...ranks: 8
...nations: 8
Now, the reason I'm adding my comment here is because someone wrote something about hospitals and this loading bug. Well, in my case, I saw that in a hospital (actually, it's a double hospital) in one of my 3 bases, the stats showed there was 1 soldier healing, but there were no soldiers listed. So I've decided to save, and reload the game to check if that problem is still there, and then I found out ALL my saved won't load. I'm guessing this save bug didn't crash the game, but kept getting saved, and as I played for about 2 hours, and saved before and after every mission, the bug "infected" all my saved games, so I lost them all.
Also - would there be a fix that would allow me to load those "broken" saved games, or am I way too optimistic?
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You are too optimistic, I am afraid. :( We weren't able to find out the real source of savegame bug.
That's why mattn worked hard last week on completely new savegame system. Now I can say it looks like finished, and I hope today we will publish here links to new testinstallers for 2.1.1 with a request of heavy testing. The old saved games won't work here, of course.
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OK, thanks for your reply, Zenerka. Based on what you wrote, does that mean everyone would have to start a new game? I don't mind starting over, as long as I can actually play, save and load games when I need to.
This is off topic, but would this new version (2.1.1) be an already compiled version that I can just install and run? If not - would there be instructions on how to compile it?
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the new version is already available as a beta-installer - see the sticky thread in the bugs forum
the new savesystem __should__ allow to carry savegames from 2.1.1 to e.g 2.2 without that much problems.
if this would be reasonable due to lacking feature set in 2.1.1 (in relation to 2.2) is another topic. but it should work - and that's exactly the reason why we need your help, everyone who has encountered save and load bugs should try the new version please and tell us about any problems that are saving and loading related (not this topic please - the sticky thread)
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Just wanted to say thanks to mattn (and other contributors) for their hard work.
Out of interest - have you gone all the way an implemented a serializer?
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I've the same issue that's is can not load the save game in the version 2.1 (about 10% ?) I'm using windows ME.
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I used to have the save game problem, but now after reinstalling 2.1 the game seems to work. I'll keep saving in two different slots every other time so that if the other one bugs I'll still have my game playable.
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Hi gamers, congratulations for the game.
I have two problems. First, I have the 2.1 version installed and at the begining I couldn't load a saved game. After some time, I saved another game and now it's working.
Second, I see things like kerrblade.txt instead the articles of the ufopedia.
Regards.
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Check this (http://ufoai.ninex.info/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1244) for the language problem.
The saving bugs randomly. I'm right now using two slots to save game, and I'll try to load it after each save. Mostly it works, but sometimes the save game doesn't work, so I'll have to load the other slot and continue. Then I save agains and it works.
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Eemeli, Escilo and yuenkong.
The save game bug is largely fixed in the current version (at least in my experience). See the sticky testinstaller thread at the top of "bugs and f...". or wait for the next release (coming 1st May, I think).
Note that you will have to start again. The savegame code was worked on hard (mainly by mattn, I think). So savegames between versions are not compatible.