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Quests Causing File Corruption?

01-29-2003, 05:22 AM#1
Trav
Ok, I've been working the past couple days trying to discover why three maps I have created have this weird problem that causes save files to become corrupt. Meaning when you save in-game and then later try to load it will give an error msg: Save File is missing or corrupted (and then kick you to desktop).

Now I did a lot of eliminating to try and figure out what could cause this. After a lot of deleting, playing a map, and saving (then loading), I narrowed it down to Quest creation.

Creating quests was definetly the least likely suspect on my list, but I tested it numerous times and it was the cause. I haven't had time to test the other two maps to see if is the only cause, but I know it is the sole cause on the specific map I was altering.

Can anyone offer insight as to how quests could cause a save file to be corrupted, because it obviously doesn't do the same thing for Blizzard's maps.

A couple other statistics:
- 5 quests: 2 required, 3 optional. All are immediate and not previously 'undiscovered'.
- All use the same Ambush icon

Any help is appreciated. I will test out my other maps w/o quests and see if the same result occurs.

EDIT: I tested out another map, disabled the quests, and was able to save and load. It is definetly quests causing this.
02-05-2004, 05:57 PM#2
Silus Rae
Yea, I'm having the same exact problem! If there's any way to allow a save withouth disabling quests (since that's basically the whole point on single player maps) I'd like to know it too.
02-05-2004, 05:59 PM#3
Kamahl
Wow, thanks for bringing up a year old topic...
02-06-2004, 04:13 AM#4
Silus Rae
Well thanks for making a constructive reply.

The question was still unanswered, so I replied. Would you rather I made a new topic? :nono:
03-10-2004, 02:56 AM#5
Ari
I hate to drag up ancient posts, but I'm having a similar issue. A map I've created crashes halfway through a load with a "memory cannot be 'read'" error. There *are* quests on the map, and my next step is to try enabling/disabling them to see what happens. In the meantime, though, has anybody heard of an error like this in the past? Does anyone have any suggestions on dealing with it?
03-10-2004, 06:26 AM#6
harel
if i remember correctly there is a problem in loadin quest at the begining of the map, i read here somewere that an 0.5 wait can fix the problem, i tryed it in my map (i craeted 2 atached maps with joined quests) and it works perfectly

sorry for the bad english. :(