Critical error unknown lhs - saves corrupted?

[shackleton1]

Hi,

I loaded an autosave and received this message:

unknown lhs in scenario file (titleholder)) 'year = 1097 line = 780132 file = [the autosave]

after which it crashes.

So I thought no biggie, go back to earlier save. Carried on playing. Autosave overwritten and later loaded new autosave. Same message.

So I thought "huh!" and reloaded my old save again. A bit later I created a new save (not autosave) and again when reloading I got the same error message.

I am running Crusader Kings (no expansion) with 1.05 patch.

Any ideas?

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

This means that in line 780132 of your autosave a { is missing.

Open your save-game with Wordpad or Notepad and go to line 780132 and try to see if you see something strange.

Though this re-accuring error most likely means the save-game itself is corrupted.

 

[shackleton1]

Thanks for the swift reply.

How would I find line 780132? They don't seem to be numbered.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

Thanks for the swift reply.

How would I find line 780132? They don't seem to be numbered.

In Notepad or Wordpad, press ctrl+G and then type in the number of the line you want to go to.

 

[shackleton1]

Duh! I had word wrap on.

This appears to be the line in question

holder = { character = { type = 4712 id = 16079 } startdate = { year = 1077 month = june day = 7 } enddate = { year = 1096 month = april day = 1 } }

And here it is in context with the rest of it

title = {
tag = SAME
tier = duchy
liege = ----
holder = { character = { type = 4712 id = 16079 } startdate = { year = 1077 month = june day = 7 } enddate = { year = 1096 month = april day = 1 } }
}

I'm wondering if it's the liege = ---- ?

Perhaps I can stick a liege code in there to fix it? (if so, any suggestions what liege code to put in?)

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

Duh! I had word wrap on.

This appears to be the line in question

holder = { character = { type = 4712 id = 16079 } startdate = { year = 1077 month = june day = 7 } enddate = { year = 1096 month = april day = 1 } }

And here it is in context with the rest of it

title = {
tag = SAME
tier = duchy
liege = ----
holder = { character = { type = 4712 id = 16079 } startdate = { year = 1077 month = june day = 7 } enddate = { year = 1096 month = april day = 1 } }
}

I'm wondering if it's the liege = ---- ?

Perhaps I can stick a liege code in there to fix it? (if so, any suggestions what liege code to put in?)

No, it is not the liege-line.

What year is your save-game ? Since in your first post you see this

'year = 1097 line = 780132 file = [the autosave]

So in this line the year is 1097, while in your 2nd post it says that the ruler died in 1096. Which means he shouldn't be listed as a ruler anymore.

Remove this entry

enddate = { year = 1096 month = april day = 1 }

See if that solves the problem

 

[shackleton1]

thanks, I'll try this