Freeze during save game

Gigantic map?

Well, to try to save it now, see if turning off all the textures and stuff reduced the memory enough to save it. 

For your next game, try clearing out your ships directory from My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\ships and My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Metaverse\ships.

I'm looking into the problem.

Experiencing same thing (v1.2). Gigantic map 768mb ram. Biggest pain is that save game file is deleted.

I think the map was huge, not gigantic but I haven't looked at it in a day or two so I can't remember. FYI, this was a save game already in existance when I patched to v1.3B, not a new game. I haven't started a new game since the patch so I don't know if it will be reproducable with a fresh game.


My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Metaverse\ships was already empty

My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\ships deleted 540 items




Haven't touched the textures. I'll see if that does it.

Deleted ships first and deleted all old save games. Tried saving over an old game, no go. Tried quick saving, no go. Tried creating a new save, no go. Here's the debug:



Debug Message: Updating ZOC.
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Logos\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Metaverse\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Portraits\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\ships\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\temp\*.sav
Debug Message: Save Game: About to save
Debug Message: Saving game C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\tanzit4.sav
Debug Message: Num Sectors Across: 8
Debug Message: Saving: Game mode is normal.
ASSERT ERROR in file .\Source\memman.cpp at line 1384.
ASSERT ERROR in file .\Source\memman.cpp at line 978.


This is just the few lines of it. Let me know if you'd like to see more in the future.

I'll try the textures next and see how that goes.

Did the above + ship textures disabled, no go.



Debug Message: BuildShip: Cannot build ship type 7-Frigate M14-2 at Vizzard I - No open slots
Debug Message: Iconian Refuge (9): Researching: Point Defense II
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Logos\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Metaverse\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Portraits\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\ships\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\temp\*.sav
Debug Message: Save Game: About to save
Debug Message: Saving game C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\tanzit4.sav
Debug Message: Num Sectors Across: 8
Debug Message: Saving: Game mode is normal.
ASSERT ERROR in file .\Source\memman.cpp at line 1384.
ASSERT ERROR in file .\Source\memman.cpp at line 978.



I'll disable some more textures and post the reults.

Same as above, disabled all textures, no go.



Debug Message: Iconian Refuge (9): Researching: Point Defense II
Debug Message: BuildShip: Cannot build ship type 9-Constructor M14-2 at Kerchen IV - No open slots
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Logos\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Metaverse\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Portraits\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\ships\*.sav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\temp\*.sav
Debug Message: Save Game: About to save
Debug Message: Saving game C:\Documents and Settings\Tanzit\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\tanzit4.sav
Debug Message: Num Sectors Across: 8
Debug Message: Saving: Game mode is normal.
ASSERT ERROR in file .\Source\memman.cpp at line 1384.
ASSERT ERROR in file .\Source\memman.cpp at line 978.



I'll start a new game, same/similar settings/map size/etc. I'll re-enable the textures and we'll see.

I'm getting identical behavior on a save game in the later stages of a large map. I posted on it in the latest 1.3 announce posting off the home page. This is new with 1.3, I believe. I have 1.5GB of RAM and the galciv2.exe process is using 1GB in the Windows task manager.

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Don't know if it's important but the last good save before this happened is date 22 Feb 2239.

Same problem here. Gigantic map, 2GB of memory, the 1.3 beta. Never had the problem before. My save games actually disappeared after the error (the auto-save first, then when I reloaded from my personal save and tried to save back to it again after completing some turns, it gave me the out of memory bug again and wiped out that save as well)

All my progress and time wasted.   

Same problem here. Game locks on save. No errors. Version 1.2. Only happens toward end of game, gigantic universe, loss of game save file. Seems to happen only on quicksave (Ctrl-S). I always clear out all my ship files before every game.

Don't know if this is important either but that map was Huge one, not a gigantic.

There is a bug in 1.3 beta 1 which causes the game to use to ask for too much memory when the game is loading, and then this additional memory is saved into the save game, so the more it is saved and reloaded, the bigger the file gets, until Windows refuses to give any more memory.

I have fixed it here and the fix will be in the next update.

 

Good troubleshooting there, Cari (I do it for a living too). Is there a workaround for people currently struggling with the issue or are those individual games "lost" for all intents and purposes?

Thanks

so waht do we do is 1.3 totally bugged How do I play now? Or is it just those saved games.What give how do i get back to 1.2 so i can at least play.