Save game issues for MP

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We had 3 players on a LAN and when the game just suddenly kicked one of us out we tried to restart and load from the saved game "auto-save". Everything worked just fine up until I hit start and 2 out of the 3 computers loaded the game without a hitch but the 3rd computer would just hang at the "Reading Scenario", obviously the other 2 computers just sat there as well waiting for the 3rd to join. We let it sit there for about 10 minutes and nothing happened. Has anyone gotten a saved game to load with no problems for more than 2 people??

Thanks for any help in advance.

 

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If look around here on this forum your will see a lot of threads about this issue.

Anyway, there is a 1.09b beta patch that are made to solve the problems of some computers not beeing able to restart a savegame.

Mail Patric at Paradox or post in the support forum and ask to be alowed to try the patch out.

 

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Update

Ok here's an update to my post......

We tried the MP Lan again on 3 comps and it worked. The only difference in this test from the original was that the 3rd comp in the original (I forgot to mention this because I didn't think it was an issue at the time) was a laptop. This was no ordinary laptop though, I just bought it from Dell, the specs are as follows: P3 900, UXGA Display w/ NVidia GForce 2Go 32MB Video, 128MB RAM, 20GB HD, 8X DVD & 8X CDRW. The speed of the laptop hard drive is 5400 RPM, where is the PC's is 7200 RPM. I am going to email this to the EU team but before I do is there any suggestions that maybe you guys think I may have missed on the test?

 

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I don't think it the fact that one of the comps was a laptop. However it might very well (by pure chance) be one of the computers that gets corrupted .cfg files just like mine (which is not a laptop).