Anyone else get this save problem?

Shabbabaram

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I figure I'd better post this here instead of in the technical forum becaus more people would get this and it's not really that technical...

I bet I am not the only one who this has happened to, but sometimes when I try to load a save, I get an error message window pop-up at 37% saying "DataIO operation System Error: Unit" What does this mean? Obviously there is some problem with the units in the game. The last itme i had this was back in the beginnings of the first patch. Then i read through the list of changes and it said something aboout max # of units hightened. I installed it and it worked.
but on my save right now, I just started, there is no way I have too many units... Ugh...

thx
 
Could be a corrupted save file, that is, there could be something wrong with that last one you loaded from. Do you have an earlier saved game that works?
 
Well I downloadeds the CIV3 Multi Tool and opened up my save game. And, lo-and behold, it randomly spawned a bunch of barbarian settlers on tile (0 , 0) so I deleted them all and it worked... strange........
 
Originally posted by Shabbabaram
Well I downloadeds the CIV3 Multi Tool and opened up my save game. And, lo-and behold, it randomly spawned a bunch of barbarian settlers on tile (0 , 0) so I deleted them all and it worked... strange........

I tried to delete a unit from my saved game using the multitool and I got "Run time error '381' invalid property array index. Let's see if I've got this straight: You can delete units from a corrupted file, but you can't delete them from a file that works?

Also the multi tool may have fixed something else when automagically when you saved the game after you deleted the barbs.
 
I got runtime error (the same one) when I tried to delete something using the filter option, because it tried to go back to the first unit, which was a chinese warrior, but i was not filtering for those. Then it went and crashed, so I turned off the filter, deleted the barbarians and it worked fine. Try that. If not I don't know what to tell you, I can delete units off of uncorrupted files properly...
 
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