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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001187 | FSSCP | gameplay | public | 2007-01-01 03:44 | 2010-05-19 05:40 |
| Reporter | monmortnoir | Assigned To | taylor | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | block | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 3.6.9 | ||||
| Summary | 0001187: The game will not allow me to create pilots at all | ||||
| Description | Upon starting the game for the first time, you must create a new pilot. The game did not allow that, and said that the directory was full, and asked if one wanted to "Retry", "Ignore", or "Quit Game". Retry does nothing, Quit Game does the obvious, and Ignore would crash the game. I have tried reopening the game several times, all with the same results. Considering it's installed on drive F:, and it's asking for random things on J:, I am not sure what to do with it. | ||||
| Additional Information | Error: Couldn't load pilot file, bailing File:J:\src\cvs\fs2_open_3_6_9.final\code\MenuUI\PlayerMenu.cpp Line: 857 [This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable] Call stack: ------------------------------------------------------------------ kernel32.dll 7c816fd7() ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Drive F:? What's drive F:? Where did you install FSO to? Make sure that the directory is not write-protected. |
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Drive F: is my 2nd Hard Drive. It has 9.7GB free at the moment. I tried installing it onto the main C: drive (yet another hard drive, 4.4GB free), with the exact same message popping up. I installed FSO to F:\Freespace 2, and on C:, to C:\Program Files\Volition\Freespace 2. Both drives, as you can tell, have sufficient space to create new pilots, and I severely doubt that both hard drives, ESPECIALLY C:, is write protected. |
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Does the folder data\players\single\ exist? If not then create it manually and see if it will save pilots them. What pilot name did you try and use? |
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I created them manually, and it allowed me to create a pilot file... but it put the pilot in the "multi" directory that it seemed to have created itself. The pilot name I used was Gio. The game froze while in the tech database. I tried reentering the game, but it crashes as soon as it gets to the pilot selection screen, not allowing me to choose anything at all... giving me the error message listed in the Additional Information. EDIT: A correction, the error message is exactly the same, except that instead of asking for "PlayerMenu.cpp", it's asking about "WINDOW.cpp". |
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Unless you are actually wanting to play multiplayer-only games, be sure that you click on "Single" on the initial PilotSelect screen. That will make sure that you are in single-player mode and allow you access to campaigns. |
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I remember when this confused me too before I resolved it. The game doesn't recognise a data\players directory inside a mod folder, instead it's locked to <Freespace2Dir>\data\players. This isn't a problem when you have installed the game from the original discs, but some standalone packages and mods sometimes forget about it. Perhaps someone could either tweak the error message to make it less confusing, or have the game create the proper tree structure if it doesn't alrwady exist. |
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* BUMP * Any further info here monmortnoir? |
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I had the exact same problem. The problem was that there was not /data/players directory. creating said directory cleared it right up |
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* BUMP * What version of Windows are you two using? I have tried to replicate the problem so that it can be fixed, but I can't seem to make it happen. The game code does try to create the full path itself for each file that it tries to write, so the directory should always exist. So far I have yet to recreate any problem (other than a permissions error) that causes it to not be able to create the path automatically. |
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Is there any further information on this? Last comment was on 18/10/2007 (DD/MM/YYYY) Recommending this one be closed. |
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Closing, as it is a support issue more than anything. There is a code issue here, but that should get its own Mantis entry. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2007-01-01 03:44 | monmortnoir | New Issue | |
| 2007-01-01 05:17 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0007348 | |
| 2007-01-01 15:15 | monmortnoir | Note Added: 0007355 | |
| 2007-01-01 15:19 | monmortnoir | Note Edited: 0007355 | |
| 2007-01-01 15:30 | taylor | Note Added: 0007356 | |
| 2007-01-01 19:35 | monmortnoir | Note Added: 0007360 | |
| 2007-01-01 19:37 | monmortnoir | Note Edited: 0007360 | |
| 2007-01-01 20:53 | taylor | Note Added: 0007361 | |
| 2007-01-09 13:20 | SadisticSid | Note Added: 0007431 | |
| 2007-03-23 20:16 | taylor | Note Added: 0007887 | |
| 2007-03-23 20:18 | taylor | Status | new => assigned |
| 2007-03-23 20:18 | taylor | Assigned To | => taylor |
| 2007-04-09 06:06 | gerbalblaste | Note Added: 0007935 | |
| 2007-10-18 18:01 | taylor | Note Added: 0008580 | |
| 2009-06-06 06:17 | portej05 | Note Added: 0010946 | |
| 2009-06-06 06:17 | portej05 | Status | assigned => feedback |
| 2010-05-12 13:21 | The_E | Note Added: 0011957 | |
| 2010-05-12 13:21 | The_E | Status | feedback => closed |
| 2010-05-12 13:21 | The_E | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2010-05-19 05:40 | Goober5000 | Relationship added | related to 0002206 |
