[S] Game Crash

[Guest]

Archived from groups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack (More info?)

My best game of slash'em has just died, twice. I am on the chaos quest
and I have recieved two memory overwrite exception errors.

The first time it happened I was able to recover. However, it happened
again 10 minutes later, same level just about 100 turns further on.
Now when I try to recover it says it can't open level 0.

I don't want to loose this game. Does anyone have any suggestions.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack (More info?)

Lichen Fodder schrieb:
> My best game of slash'em has just died, twice. I am on the chaos quest
> and I have recieved two memory overwrite exception errors.
>
> The first time it happened I was able to recover. However, it happened
> again 10 minutes later, same level just about 100 turns further on.
> Now when I try to recover it says it can't open level 0.
>
> I don't want to loose this game. Does anyone have any suggestions.

I think it is too late now. Slashem is not very stable yet (at least
007E6F3 is not). What I do is to make a backup after every level
change, at least when I have not visited the level before. Tedious, but
the only way to recover without getting too close to save-scumming. If
you do it too infrequently, you will have to recover from an older
version and new levels that are created on going down will be different
from what you saw first; also you may not repeat a mistake that has been
severe. I even save after major mistakes in order to avoid the
temptation not to repeat the mistake should the game crash before I save
the next time.
--
Klaus Kassner

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack (More info?)

Thanks Klaus, I am resigned to the fact its gone

I was playing 006E4F8, so you would hope it would be stable.

I may try again soon. For now I have returned to Nethack, at least the
anguishj I experience there is all of my own making.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack (More info?)

Useful tip

Thats Contorl Panel - Scheduled Tasks in std. WinXP.

I will try this but wont save too often or the last saved game may
include the bug

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack (More info?)

In message <1109152133.169221.54800@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
Lichen Fodder <mantill@gmail.com> writes
>Thanks Klaus, I am resigned to the fact its gone
>
>I was playing 006E4F8, so you would hope it would be stable.
>
>I may try again soon. For now I have returned to Nethack, at least the
>anguishj I experience there is all of my own making.
>

May I recommend downloading the last version of the Slash Em' Ranger
development series. That should be stable and to your satisfaction.
--
Leon Coles

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack (More info?)

You could make a batch file that backups your game
automatically say once every five minutes..

Just open notepad and cut'n paste this:

copy C:\SaveFile\*.* C:\BackupFile
exit

Replace SaveFile and BackupFolder with your own paths

Save as Something.BAT

Then go to control panel-> timed tasks(or something like
that, I have finnish Windows🙂 )

Follow the wizard's instructions.

And when wizard is finished right click on the task, select
properties and adjust the timing to what you want.

Works at least in WinXP, I'm not sure if older versions have
timed tasks feature.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack (More info?)

Tero Toiviainen wrote:

> I have finnish Windows 🙂

Keep them closed: it's cold, this time of the year.

--
Boudewijn Waijers (kroisos at home.nl).

The garden of happiness is surrounded by a wall so low only children
can look over it. - "the Orphanage of Hits", former Dutch radio show.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack (More info?)

Leon

I thought 006E4F8 was the final stable version. Which version should I
be looking for.