i have this a lot too. It's specific save files that refuse to load, not that loading breaks in general.

The game has always crashed far too often while loading, but since 1.01 i've been getting this issue where specific saves refuse to load no matter how many times i try. It most commonly happens to autosaves actually.

Are you loading saves from a prior version in a current version? From what I understand that is not recommended as it can cause crashes. Now crashing from saves in the current version is another story...

Same happens with 1.01 saves in 1.01 game. No crossversions.

Update to 1.02 did not change anything. Still main save file and both autosave files won't load.

And there are other threads, where customers reported the same problem days ago.

STARDOCK, THIS IS A MAJOR BUG - THE GAME IS USELESS BECAUSE OF THIS PROBLEM! NOBODY WANT'S TO PLAY A GAME WHERE A SAVE CAN'T BE LOADED AFTER 12+ HOURS OF GAMEPLAY! AND YOU DON'T EVEN RESPOND TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE?

Debug Message:  LOADING GAME: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\.....EleSav
Debug Message:  UnzipHelper attempting to read file with uncompressed size of 48479923
Debug Message:  StopAllXMLDataThreads Called
Debug Message:  Stopped CoreXMLDataThread1
Debug Message:  Stopped CoreXMLDataThread2
Debug Message:  Stopped CoreXMLDataThread3
Debug Message:  Stopped CoreXMLDataThread4
Debug Message:  Stopped Load Game XML Thread
Debug Message:  Stopped Load Game XML Thread #2
Debug Message:  LOAD GAME: Loading XML Data (start)
Debug Message:  Total objects deleted: 152555

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