Loading stalls and saves

[Richard Stephenson]

Since 0.9 I’ve had to restart the same character from older manual saves several times. Usually the game stalls out during a load when I alt-tab, even though I’m playing in windowed mode. I’m guessing that the auto-save feature doesn’t kick in or something when this crash occurs. It looks like a memory leak to me because with 20 gigs of RAM Ultimate ADOM was using about 12 gigs when this occurred

Wondering if you could at least put the auto-save feature event before you begin loading the next level, so that we don’t have to both manually and auto-save along the way, thus making the gameplay slower.

[Jochen Terstiege]

Can you please upload the ualog.txt file when this happens? I’ve never seen this behaviour. Also there is no “auto-save” right now.

When you alt-tab out of the game, it basically stops.

[Richard Stephenson]

Not a problem. I’m going to create a separate thread to upload the file because the text dump was relatively large. I’ll put my save file there too. (EDIT: I can only load up 1 file at a time. I’ll just do 2 threads)

I recreated the effect by loading the character and alt-tabbing to my browser while the file loaded, then alt-tabbed back shortly after. Then I waited for a few minutes – basically longer than any save-game load that’s been successful has taken before – and force shut down the program.

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And, OK. I wasn’t sure.

Just for things like this it’d be nice to implement before major transitions and loads – or, if possibly, trying to recall the state prior to a break and saving it or something along those lines. Obviously you’d still auto-delete upon death, this would just help with avoiding the frustrating scenario of having to re-do things with your character due to a crash.

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[Jochen Terstiege]

You can attach files easily by using the “More” button on the top right.

I’ve checked the saved game and it’s broken. Sorry, but there is nothing I can do about it. It looks like a room on one of the maps got damaged, but it’s hard to tell how.

[Jochen Terstiege]

The next update will go back to the main menu in case a saved game fails to load. This didn’t work correctly before.

[Jochen Terstiege]

There is no way to check why the game was corrupted, so I'm closing this one.