Bug (Using The Door From Level 2 to Level 1)

[Mowglia]

I was passing from level 2 to Level 1, something I've done at least once before on this character and got hit with "Unknown Application Error" (didn't read the error dialog title bar) - it was followed with a "String Library: Invalid Library Format" dialog.

Tried to Exit and Continue, same errors - except this time there was an additional "Cursor Error" dialog box.

Reset the PC, restarted Exanima, same thing.

I thought my characters might both be corrupted so I tried New Game, set up another character. That worked, but trying to Continue the character (who bugged) resulted in the same errors, but with a lot more Cursor Errors.

At which point I deleted the third (temporary test) character, except the character with the bug got vaporized too for some reason...leaving just one character remaining (character #2).

Continue works for him, he seems to load ok. I'll try playing around with it a bit more to see if he's stable.

 

[Orlacktherof]

Keep testing, maybe we can find similar instances?

 

[Mowglia]

I think I might have mangled it

I seem to remember my characters had both *.rsg and *.rcp files associated with them. I can't remember what they actually did but they were about 2Mb each.

Things currently appear to work ok from a practical perspective, but now my (new) characters only have a *.rsg file of about 750Kb associated with them - there is no *.rcp file at all. I verified game files using Steam and made another character, same thing. Renamed Exanima.set file and made another character, same thing (although all my global xps disappeared when I did that).

The only thing I was doing out of the ordinary before this occurred was compiling a large Journal, I had perhaps 40 entries, many scrolled off the bottom of the screen. I basically typed all the stuff in books/notes straight into the Journal and added some other stuff too (so I could leave all notes/books in situ). There was quite a bit of Alt-Tabbing going on (as I backed the Journal up in a text file).

I've got a bad feeling I Journalled Exanima to death

 

[Mowglia]

It seems to be fixed.

The *.rcp files are checkpoint files so they don't get created until Level 4.
The *.rsg files are save game files which start off around 750Kb and grow to maybe 2Mb/3Mb.
The Examina.set file seems to handle xps, and maybe other environmental stuff.

So everything seems to be working correctly now. Hopefully it was just a one-off glitch.

 

[Madoc]

Is the save file for the bugged character gone? If not you could send it to us and we could look into what might have caused this.

 

[Mowglia]

Unfortunately there are no saves for the bugged character.

Initially I had two characters, the bug got character #1 and I could not use Continue. I thought the game files might have been corrupted. So I used New Game to start character #3 (to give me a way to get to character #2), which seemed to work. Except then I deleted character #3, at which point character #1 got deleted too.

I wasn't really thinking. If I encounter bugs again I'll copy the directory before I start fiddling with it.