Autosave files disappeared, lost high scores
| Case number: | 671071-993003 |
| Topic: | Game: Other |
| Opened by: | Timo van der Laan |
| Status: | Closed |
| Assigned: | tamirh |
| Priority: | 3 |
| Type: | Bug |
| Opened on: | Monday, June 18, 2012 - 22:34 |
| Last modified: | Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 09:55 |
Today I had to stop my laptop (keyboard input and mouse gave no reaction).
However the clients were still running.
So I restarted, and restarted devprev, puzzle 580. The score on the track, were the script had long finished, was very low, so I tried to open the autosaves. There was one score in slot 7, 20 points below the highest score, and all the other autosaves were very recent and very low.
Restarted main, went to puzzle 576, also very low. Checked the autosaves, there was only 1 autosave (also slot 7) and on that puzzle I lost also 20 pts.
The previous high scores were sent to the server, but the autosaves were gone.
The third track was allright no problem there.
Running Windows 7 64-bit.
If the game was attempting to write to the autosave files when you rebooted, they may have become corrupted, which would explain this behavior.
Then I would suggest that before writing the creditbest solution, it should be renamed to a backup name.
That one should be permanent until the next write action is due.
But maybe even that wouldn't help if windows 7 has a lazy buffered write to disk strategy.
| Assigned: Anonymous » tamirh |
Assigning to myself, I'll look into making the autosave safer.
| Status: Open » Done |
committed fix, should be in the next devprev
| Status: Done » Open |
It happened again. Lost my high score on 603 and also in the other client that ran 601 the high score was gone. In 601 there was a quicksave 3 solution that had the high, no such luck on 603.
ALL normal savefiles had a low score.
Windows 7 4 quad laptop, 64 bit, running main.
I had to stop the laptop because it hang.
My conclusion: the extra safeguard did not work, maybe there was interference between the different clients.
Or can it be that after a restart the safeguard is discarded?
Not only at restart the safeguard should work, but also when entering another track.
| Status: Open » Closed |
Closed because the extra availability of save files helps to keep the highest score.
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