Garrulous Glaahk Skomer Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Avadon keeps quitting on me, always just after I've pressed F3 to quicksave. I have tried the steps below, and while this isn't a game stopper for me it is rather tiresome, so I wonder if anyone has any other suggestions? Already tried: Restarting computer Uninstalling, redownloading, reinstalling Playing with most minimalistic graphics settings Playing with no other programs running Updating sound driver (Realtek HD Audio, updated to 6.0.1.6392) Can't seem to find a video driver; in any case it's not listed in device manager... My computer: Acer Apsire 5315 running Windows Vista SP2 Intel Celeron Processor 1.86 GHz, 1GB RAM PS: It's Avadon v1.0 since there aren't any other versions yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 newer graphic drivers you could look on intel's or acer's site. maybe quicksave-slot is damaged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 The video drivers are listed in Device Manager under "Display adapters." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Spidweb Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 First save the game in a slot besides the last two. Then try going into Documents/Spiderweb Software/Avadon Saved Games and deleting folders Save18 and Save19. Then try quicksaving. - Jeff Vogel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Micawber Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 I did try that step and it doesn't help, unfortunately. I have encountered exactly the same issue on my machine (sony vaio running win7 64bit). The good news is, even when it insta-crashes, the save still succeeds. So although it was slightly irritating it didn't prevent me from finishing the game. (Actually the spontaneous crashes sometimes provided a useful reminder to do other non-Avadon things like eat, go out, etc.) Edit: I did wonder if it might maybe be connected to windows live mesh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Skomer Posted June 23, 2011 Author Share Posted June 23, 2011 Deleting the save folders seems to have done the job for me; thank you. Micawber, I don't think we're having the same problem. I'm assuming Windows Live Mesh is a Windows 7 thing - certainly I'm not running that. Also for me when Avadon crashed during quicksave, most often the save didn't succeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Micawber Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Windows Live Mesh is a Windows Live thing, it runs on all my computers (not just the win7 one) and keeps the files in sync. As it is constantly scanning the Documents folder, I wondered if that might cause a conflict in some way, which if unhandled, would cause Avadon to crash. The reason I point the finger is that I also started getting errors during saving when replaying Avernum 6, I didn't get them the first time through, and the main difference since then is WLM. Then again as the saves always succeed, perhaps it's unrelated and the crash is due to the graphics driver (which I'm unable to update because Sony have locked the card so I can only use drivers they publish, and they haven't published any for >1 year). On second thoughts, that's probably it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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