Conference 501clb::pcdoom

146.0. "Saved games getting corrupted" by CSC32::T_HUTCHIN () Mon Nov 14 1994 17:17

    
    	Has anyone else run into a problem with 1.666 of DOOM II where
    	the saved games files are getting corrupted?
    
    	When this happens the system freezes solid trying to save a game.
    	After a reboot, the system freezes when trying to load the same
    	game.  All I can do is delete the corrupt file and start over (which 
    	is mighty annoying since you go back to Level 1).
    
    	This is very reproducable.  The first time it happened, SCANDISK
    	reported a broken linkage; I only saw that once.  After that, the
    	disk structure seemed to be OK; the file was just corrupted.
    
    	At first I thought it might only affect the last three SAVE slots;
    	but my wife uses the first three slots and she's seen the same
    	problem.
    
    	I moved the DOOM directory to a volume that wasn't DOUBLE-SPACEd
    	but this didn't make any difference.  The only thing out of the
    	ordinary that I know of is that I'm running an XBIOS driver from 
    	Western Digital that allows me to use one of their 1GB IDE drives.
        If this is the problem it doesn't seem to affect any other programs.
    
    	Any ideas?
    
    	Thanks,
    	Terry
	

    
    	Don't touch anything when you save.  I've noticed that everytime
    	the game freezes during the save, I was moving the mouse
    	around.
    
    						Scott.
    

	I have had this exact thing happen to me. I have smartdrv set up to do write caching.
	I wrote a bat file called doom2fix.bat that did something like

	smartdrv e
	doom2
	smrtdrve e+

	And enter doom2fix to run doom2

	This turns off write caching on drive e (The drive I have doom2 on) runs doom2 then
	turns write caching back on. I keep the bat in DOOM2 directory and cd there first.

	This has totally eliminated the problem.

	Sion


	BTW I have now set up a multistart config file that does a minimum start for doom2
	and does not start smartdrv at all.