[FIXED] File size bloats with save / load cycles - Still in .621

[Minor Annoyance]

I was going to post the two save where the second more than doubles in size! It no longer seems shocking.

 

[malichai11]

I'm baffled they haven't hotfixed this yet since they said they were aware of it almost a month ago.

 

[The_J]

Good indicator for how screwed the code is....

 

[malichai11]

Just checking in again to see if this bug has been fixed?

 

[Minor Annoyance]

Just checking in again to see if this bug has been fixed?

It's listed in the changed for the next patch.

 

[malichai11]

Awesome!

Is there an ETA on that patch?

 

[Guardian_PL]

Awesome!

Is there an ETA on that patch?

I thought that it was supposed to be fixed in last patch -

* Save/Load – Fix for corrupted saves being experienced by some players in late-game.

Guess not.

 

[ozhan]

I'm using win7 740q and 330m nvdia.After some turns (250-300) my save's data increases to 1.5-2.5 mb from 0.8 mb and also saving time increases from 3 sec. to 30 sec.
If i want to load it i have to exit the game and reopen the game otherwise it crashes while loading. It happened before the patch and after the patch i have still this problem. The patch notes says that the save error was fixed, but i can see any positive effect.

 

[The_J]

Moderator Action: Threads merged.

but i adjusted the title to refrect the new report.
Rather disappointing, this whole thing :/.

 

[AlwaysGreek]

I have a fairly beefy system, and it seems not to be an obvious resource constraint.

I always play on Huge maps, Marathon speed.

For the first 100 turns I can generally load a game from within the game.

After that, any attemp to load a saved game from within the game results in CTD.

I have played about a dozen games this way and it _always_ happens.

System:

Windows 7 64bit
8 core Intel CPU at 2.6GHz
6 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5870 w/ 4GB RAM

The last patch did not change the behavior at all. The save game files for my current game are about 3GB.

Game loads from the main menu take a while as well, ~ 30 seconds.

The same problem also happens on a completely different machine running Vista 64 and even more RAM.

This seems like a fairly easy problem to pin down. I'm also quite suprised that this seems to have escaped the testers. Don't they test with Huge maps?

 

[ozhan]

As i can see, most of civ players have this problem and there is no solution for this yet. But why did the last patch says that it was fixed? I think Firaxis is really cheating people because this problem makes the game unplayable for the players who saves/loads a lot like me. But they are still selling the game at high prices altough it has many major problems.I stopped playing civ until a permanent solution comes for this prob. Because i know that when it comes, i will have to delete all my saves and start a new game(very annoying). Until then, i don't want to waste my time by playing only until industrial ages.

 

[The_J]

I think we've confused this.
the next patch should fix the problem, like you can see in the comming patch log (here).