FA Crashes when loading some save games

Jip

I have honestly no idea

YouSaveTheDay

I don't seem to have this issue when playing via the steam launcher.

I've also re-installed the game and FAF Client but have the same issue when launching via the patched exe.

Do the logs not give any indication as to what might be happening?

Thanks

camber

I have also been experiencing this saved and restore issue. I've been experiencing for over a month, and I keep very updated with my patches. It doesn't matter whether I start it from the executable in the file directory or from Steam, it seems to do with the size of the save game as if I only play for a minute and save, it will sometimes load, but any decent size game that I saved, it just won't load. It gets pretty far into the loading screen as it's been for quite a while and then I noticed it kind of stops the loading screen animation, and then the animation starts again again and then it crashes.

Jip

Can you share such a save game?

YouSaveTheDay

Sorry for the delay, Still loosing lots of time with this scenario.

Saved Game:
YSTD - Saved Game Example

TIA @Jip

Jip

This sounds a bit silly, but how do you load that in?

YouSaveTheDay

What do you mean by that @Jip ?

If you mean how do i load the saved game...

I run the patched .exe via
C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe

Click "Skirmish" and click "Load game" then select the saved game file.

The Skirmish is started the same way, using the patched exe.

YouSaveTheDay

Hey @Jip , I know it's been a while but this issue is still happening? I was wondering if you ever found out what might be causing this issue?

Please see the following link for two save games - One that loads (4) and one that doesn't (5)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pd7Vfw9rb2kcxbjZyXJSyrJrvG8_XEva/view?usp=sharing

Would really appreciate if you could shed a little light on the situation...Do they both load for you?

Thanks David

Jip

My apologies for not getting back to you. I've not been able to shed light on the situation. I think, somewhere down the line, the loading / saving of games was never really tested when patching the game. And I do not recall testing it either.

I've stored your save files on disk and I'll see if I can find something. If it turns out to be trivial to fix then I can fix it for the next developers patch, but if it isn't trivial then I'm afraid it will be postponed.

YouSaveTheDay

No need to apologise @Jip , I'm sure you've got plenty more pressing things on your plate. The only difference i can see is similar to what @camber mentioned before - Any saved game over the 200mb file size seems to cause the crash when loading. Fingers crossed it's something simple - Normal Forged Alliance Skirmish is nowhere near as fun playing FAF Skirmish