save file problem in patch 152

lomendil

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I think this is just one of those hard-to-catch bugs, and that's why I'm reporting it here. I can send a save file to anyone who wants to troubleshoot this.

A friend and me continued an MP game over the internet that we started playing in patch 109. Old save files worked fine. Both our civs had an empty password.

But all the saves made since I patched the game are unusable: none of us can connect to my civ ("incorrect password"). Both of us can connect to the my friend's civ.
 
Do you have the save that shows this?
 
I've had a similar problem here playing with a friend. We started one game up at v1.52 and when we tried to load it up the next day to resume, the system would not accept either of our passwords. First I tried to host, then I had him try.

Then we started a new game up, we saved after a couple of turns, then reloaded to see if it remembered our passwords, and it did. So we continued playing for a few hours. The next day we resumed and it remembered my password, but it did not remember his. To rule out fat-fingering the password, we went back to the previous saved game that we tested this on earlier and both of our passwords worked, so we know we have them set correctly.

This is very frustrating. It is almost as if the password gets corrupted after so many turns. Never had this problem before the patch. We are playing non-simultaneous/epic/2 human, 6 AI civs.
 
I just want to second the post of Bolt144.We never had this problem with 109 and we played many games all on GS with many restarts from saves and not one bad password error.
 
I was browsing through the forums and noticed some people having this problem. Sounds like my friends and I are also having a similar problem. We started a 4 Human/6AI game tonight. I am sure I did not enter a password, yet the game is asking for one when I try and load the saved game. I am not sure about anyone else yet though. However, the game is asking for a password on their Civs as well.

I did note that the AI players did not ask for a password. Just got the window that asks if you want to enter one.
 
Played a 3 Human / 4 AI game on Gamespy

Games were saved along the way.

All players can load saved games that were created prior to ~4 hours into the game.

Not all players can load saved games that were created after ~4 hours into the game.

PASSWORD ERROR, but passwords have not changed.

Firaxis, 2K, Take2 do not accept responsibility for their programming errors. They need to step to the plate and act like heros not cowards.
 
lomendil- try these passwords- d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf84273
or 74be16979710d4c4e7c6647856088456
(i know they are long, both of them are 32 chars. the first one sould work)
its almost 100% that one of them would work.
if any1 else need to find out thier password, email the save file to Daniel_Yahi@yahoo.com (its an underline, not a space)
 
Stargrove- sry to tell you but you're way is wrong, all of you're "fixed" save files are bad. i found a way that everyone's saved game will work, tryed it 4 times with 4 different ppl in 4 different save files and they all work!(5 if you include lomendil's save file that i checked and it works 100%!)
you dont need to do any thing with hex editor, just put this password- d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e when the game asks you to put a password. its a universal password for every single save file that had no password in the 1.09 version, but asked for it in the newest version. i posted this password already, but i've confuzed the last letter (i typed 3 instade of e). those who think this password is too long, are wrong, there are 32 chars in this password and you can put 32 chars in the game.

edit - I think the reason ppl's save file needed password when they upgraded to the last patch is because this password isnt a universal "no-password" password =D. what i mean is- when the programmers made the newest update, they did something with the way the game reads save files
("Fix for competitive games: Password-protected saves can no longer be easily stripped of their passwords, and the assets checksum in the save can no longer be modified by external means"
this if from the latest update's fixed bug list). so insted of reading this code as "no-password" the game thinks this code is the password! thats why this code works as a universal "no-password" password for every1 that has upgraded to the latest upgrade and used the save file from the 1.09 version, but it doesnt work on any new save file.

Always Happy to help! =D
btw, any1 is welcome to take anything from my post and put it in other posts that have the same problem.
 
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