Out all night mining, and now saved game is corrupted.

[CrazyIvanMN]

I was mining all night on earth (deployed four shuttles/and their mining drones). Left the game running when I went to sleep. Woke up today, unloaded the drones in to one shuttle, and set that shuttle to RTB, while I stayed on the planet.

Anyway.. I figured I didn't want to lose a night's work, so I saved my game using alt-g.

Now, when I clicked resume last, it starts to load, when it gets to loading earth, it hangs there for a bit, then gives the "FATAL ERROR" message box "Save file Currupt, missing object marker".

I tried then to load from the Restore game screen, and I get the same error.

I'm running version 2.00.20, properly patched (copied exe updates to the universal combat directory, and extracted one at a time, 1st with 2.00.00 then with 2.00.20).. actually been playing it for a couple days now, since I got my issues with drivers resolved, and never had a problem loading a saved game before.

I did see the reply to someone else's similar problem (quoted below), and I know this is not the case. As I've only played this game with version 2.00.20.

Supreme Cmdr posted 10-10-2004 05:44 AM

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And the exact message is "Save file Corrupt, missing object marker" and only appears during the loading of a saved game in which the object marker is different than what the current version supports.

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[Supreme Cmdr]

The only way you'd get a corrupt saved game is if you were previously running a game that was not created from the same patch level. e.g. running 2.00.20 patch level with a game from 2.00.08 (or whatever the last compatible version was). It can also happen if your HDD has bad sectors and part of the saved game got written to such a sector.

Nothing I can do about it.

In the future, please search the forum before starting a thread about a discussed topic. This thread will be deleted later today.

Send the saved game (there is a topic here about which files to send and how) to [email protected] and I'll take a look when I find time.