crashing while saving - any fixes?

Arcanum recently (I just left Tarant)
started to crash whenever I save my game.

When I reload a game saved/crashed, it is
unplayable (asking me every few seconds if I want to quit, and crashing after a no response if on the world map).

Anybody else got this problem (and more importantly, have you found a fix)?

-Richard.

 

Trie to ask the same q over at http://vnboards.ign.com/board.asp?brd=5037
if you don`t get an answer on this board.
There is a patch scheduled though, that may fix your prob. Try doing the usual stuff; shut down all other applications and such...Other than that I can`t help you since I haven`t got the game myself yet and I don`t recall someone else having the same prob.

- Zen

 

Gamespot mentioned this in their review. AFAIK, there's no fix for it other than loading from a previous save.

 

I don't mind reloading a previous save...
except that just about every time I save
after my last good one, the save is corrupt,
making playing pretty useless.

If the patch doesn't fix that, this
game is unplayable...except, I guess,
in ironman mode.

-Richard.

 

Ouch.. That is a problem.

I'm wondering, how much space is on your drive and when was the last time you defragged it?

 

>I'm wondering, how much space is on your >drive and when was the last time you >defragged it?

57 gigs free.
Never defragged.
Installed about 2 weeks ago.

If I start a new game, my saves of it are
fine...so it seems like something I did
in game 1 triggered the "hose all of
Richard's save games" button.

The last thing I did before saving the
final time in game 1 was to trigger the
final plot point out of Tarant, so maybe
that's it (for me, of course, since others
have been able to finish the game).

Here's hoping for patch love.

-Richard.

 

I have the same problem with my saves only for me it started from the very begginning. That goes for asking me to quit every couple of minutes. It's extremely frustrating i just hope the patch will fix these problems.

17 gigs free
256 ram
800 mhz thunderbird
64 mb Radeon DDR

 

Interestingly enough, I started a new game
(saving every level), and I'm now happily
much further along than I was before.

Hopefully it won't happen again.

-Richard.