Worries about FM 09

On FM 08, for about 7 months and it was fine..

But then it started comming up with a error message saying 'cannot load last saved game'

And i could never get it sorted..

I really want FM09 but i dont want the same to happen as in FM 08..

Could anyone help??

Thanks

On FM 08, for about 7 months and it was fine..

But then it started comming up with a error message saying 'cannot load last saved game'

And i could never get it sorted..

I really want FM09 but i dont want the same to happen as in FM 08..

Could anyone help??

Thanks

did your pc/laptop crash while saving your last game

Not sure mate..

But on every save i created, it did it after about 3 times of opening..

But even after i had my computer wiped, it still did it..

any ideas...

Rolling autosave...

'Rolling save'

Dont understand mate

Yeah, but i dont understand my even when i wiped my PC, it still did it...

Has anyone else had this problem!

Do you think it will happen on FM 09?

Anyone help?????

you need to make sure the game is completely saved before turning off fm.

Put it was everytime i created one.

Anyone else had this problem

if your doing something while saving then it will corrupt the file and happen every time

Be sure to have at least 3 seperate saves, I always save before a match, after a match too if it was an awesome day.

And then, once every game year perhaps, copy a save game and save it elsewhere on the comp or onto a website just to make sure!

Even if my computer had been totally wiped..

Yeah, but wanted to know if anyoneelse had it and what the did to solve it and get it working again!?

Buy a new computer/laptop

Or buy RAM with ECC which might help if your computer keeps writing corrupted data to disk.

Not buying a new pc because for about 7 months before it worked perfectly..

then it was just now and again..

Now its everytime i create one, and i dont want fm 09 to be the same...

what u lot think?

Not buying a new pc because for about 7 months before it worked perfectly..

then it was just now and again..

Now its everytime i create one, and i dont want fm 09 to be the same...

what u lot think?

Sorry for double post *

And what u mean not do anything when saving.

like trying to close the fm.exe app during saving. dont try shut down your computer while saving. this could corrupt the file its happend to me

Back in the old days going on holiday fixes the problem.

if you cant load the saved game you cant go on holiday

You might want to check your anti-virus software. With some av software, when you install it, it checks every file by default, which can often interfere with the operation of legitimate software and files. Chances are there is some sort of 'check on access' setting.

Maybe reinstalling the game might solve the corrupt saves.

Only had this happen once way back with fm05.

I also use rolling saves and even keep backups from them on a external hd just in case.

Never needed them though.

Right... Its being uninstalled on my pc because i was getting sick of it..

Just tried installing now and this is exacly what it says

XLM parsing error!

not well-formed (invailed token) at line 1 of last_saved_game.xml

^^ that came up once i double click my icon on the desktop.

I'm sure I've read it can be caused by a virus scanner, have you tried disabling yours before playing FM?

Ok,

do you know what setting to change,

i have SUPERanti-virues

i dont think you can disable SUPERantispyware lol

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What do you mean when you say "totally wiped", what did you actually do? Delete it/Uninstall it or Format the whole drive?

Have you run Disk Defragmenter? Do you have any bad sectors?

My whole pc got wiped, as in XP and everything

A fresh XP

doesn't matter if you wiped your hard disk or not, you still have corrupted sectors.

doesn't matter if you wiped your hard disk or not, you still have corrupted sectors.

A full format should remove Bad Sectors from any future use though. So if that has been done, not sure it can be down to that, and a new XP install suggests a true format.

I've seen bad XML parsing during the game in FM08, usually when I went to a contract offer screen forcing everything to 0. I never got to the bottom of why that happened, but I assume it must be something else accessing the processor at the same time. So I think the best bet is to start turning off everything else running in the background. Then see if a new save works o.k.

FM08 is, after all, just a glorified database

I earn my money supporting a database program.

Working on the premise that databases generally behave the same, I'd say:

If the savegame was corrupted before you formatted your harddisk, it won't become 'whole' again by reinstalling windows. The error is in the file itself, there's nothing Windows can do about that.

The only thing you can do to safeguard yourself from losing a lot of game time is saving often, so that once your file does get corrupt, you have backups to go back to. The more different backups you have, the better it is, so rolling backups with as many files as possible is safest.

As others said, anything can cause corruptions, but the most likely cause would be other programs interfering with reading/writing, ironically when you're saving the game. Best to have as little 'disk-intensive' or memory-hogging programs open as possible when playing FM.

I don't think it's likely that this has more, or less, risk of happening with FM09 than with 08, unless SI changed (and improved ) the underlying system. I'm not privy to the inner workings of the game, but I'd say that would be a major work, not something they'll change between versions often.

So how can i solve my problem DJ, or will it just be like this all the time and i wont be able to play the game.?

Sounds to me like your memory or, more likely, your HDD is on the way out.

start -> command prompt -> type "chkdsk"

So how can i solve my problem DJ, or will it just be like this all the time and i wont be able to play the game.?

You can not repair your old save.

Unless you have backups from further back that MAY not have the issue, kiss it goodbye. (You'd be amazed how often I have to tell this sad news to my customers - so-called professionals and they don't make backups - so don't feel bad, happens to lots of people).

The only thing you can do to try and avoid the issue is to avoid putting a lot of strain on the PC whilst playing FM as well as making lots of backups, so that if poo does happen, you can revert to a backup.

And how do you keep creating back-ups, and if your save does come up with the, 'cannot load last saved game' message, can you go back to the back-up and and load it and will that work..

Tahnks DJ.

And tr and keep as little as possible running whilst playing FM

And how do you keep creating back-ups, and if your save does come up with the, 'cannot load last saved game' message, can you go back to the back-up and and load it and will that work..

Tahnks DJ.

You'd simply have to try a previous backup. If that save is broken as well, go back one further until you find a save that's still OK.

For creating them: look up the help/manual 'rolling backups'.