Can't Save in a Map, and Can't Load to t Created 14 years ago2009-07-27 21:26:29 UTC by TomCat

Hello.

I have a Mod and I am experiencing an odd problem with it. When I get up to the 15th map of my Mod (pls15.bsp), I cannot save in it, or else the game crashes. Also, once I go to load to the next map (to pls16.bsp) then game also crashes. However, if I go right to that map by typing "map pls15" in console, I can save in it fine, and it loads to the next map without a problem. The only thing I can think of is that the save file is corrupt, but then why can I load the save file fine and why can I save in the map before this (pls14.bsp) but not this map (pls15.bsp)? I guess it could be that the Mod can't take all of the data from the previous 14 maps that have happened, but I chose "Yes, start new map unit" in the map settings for this map, and it still produced these two problems.

If anyone wants to try this out for themselves, let me know: I'll give you a copy of my Mod with the save files that I am experiencing this problem with. If anyone can give me any suggestions as to why this may be happening, I would greatly appreciate it.

By the way, my Mod is Pulse: Episode One.

Yeah. I had a similar problem in my Competition 27 map. To avoid this i prevented the player from dying. has someone else had the same problem? As i found that only my computer suffered from the problem...and it worked fine for everyone else

Thanks for the reply. Maybe it will only be a problem with my computer and not for everyone else? I hope that is the case, because for me it wouldn't load to the next map, and that next map begins the best part of my Mod. I hope it won't be a problem for everyone.

Get in contact with someone who is playing it and get them to test it...it's the best solution...or get a friend to install it on his computer and try it yourself

I've asked people on MODDB to tell me if they see that problem, but I doubt they'll say anything about it, even if they do see it. I'd like to get one of my friends to beta test this Mod for me. He's tested it a while ago before it was finished, but I'm sure I can get him to go through it again.

Thats good...I'd do it but I can't download on my net...not a file that big anyway it would cost me a fortune

OK, my friend tested my Mod for me, and he had the same problem, although not in the same map that I had this problem in. It appears that the .sav file eventually gets overloaded (or something of the sort), and then you cannot save again in that map, and you cannot load to the next map. This is a very odd situation, and I wonder if it has something to do with too much data being carried by the game from map to map, and then all of a sudden when it reaches a certain map, it just can't hold anymore data and it crashes when you save or try to load a new map. It's a weird problem.

Have you ever used the 'Clear Previous Level Data' option in the worldspawn entity? Use this if you have a changelevel trigger that you can't return through. This might solve your problem if that is the cause. This will delete all saved data like dead monsters, decals, ect from previous levels that you can't return to

But it will keep the weapons that the current player holds and their total amount of health and HEV charge, right?

Yes, of course. All it does is delete data on previous levels, things that are saved like which monsters are dead and alive, how much health they have, where their dead bodies are, where blood decals were splatters, the state of all other entities like which boxes are broken, ect. Doing this just deletes this data. So if you go through to the map where it will delete this data and then return to a previous map, the level will load like it was the first time you entered it. All the monsters will be alive and everything is reset. Player data is kept so the amount of ammo, health ect is saved

Thank you very much; this seems to be just what I need. I'll modify some of my maps to include this entity, and then I'll test it out. If all works out, then this could be another bug that will disappear with the Beta 2 release of Pulse: Episode One.

Thank you again for you help!

No worries! Hope it works for you

I just realized that I had all of my maps already using the option "Yes, clear previous levels" for the "New Level Unit" setting. Was that what you were talking about? I thought doing that would fix this problem, too, but apparently it isn't working as it should because, even though I have this option set to "Yes, clear previous levels", everything still gets carried over from the previous levels. Why would that be, if it's specified not to do that? Is this a malfunction of the option? Obviously, if it's still carrying data from the previous maps to the new map, that means this setting isn't working for me.

Have you tried autosaves?? Or even renaming the map...? Recompiling?

I have autosaves at the beginning of almost every map. I could try recompiling them, though. The thing that stinks about this is that, when I try a fix, I have to go through more than half of the Mod just to see if it worked or not. If I don't crash and I finish the Mod completely, then that means it worked. Maybe I could just noclip through the whole Mod to save time - that would probably have the same effect on the save files as going through it regularly would.