Game crashes and displays this message. Any fix?

[Vicarious28]

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ERROR in action number 1
of Other Event: User Defined 4 for object oLibrary:
Attempting to read from outside the buffer, returning 0
at gml_Script_scrOpenFileManual
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gml_Script_scrOpenFileManual (line -1)
gml_Object_oLibrary_Other_14
gml_Script_scrRunStateMachine (line -1)
gml_Object_oLibrary_Step_1

[Tatra]

When did this happen? Is it every time you run the game straight away? A one-off that happened as you finished a particular level in a particular game? Something else?

Have you tried verifying your files? (Go to the game in Steam, click the cog icon then "Properties", go to "Installed files", and click "Verify Integrity of files", or whatever it is.)

Either way, you may want to post this in the Bug Reports section rather than General Discussions.

[Vicarious28]

It happens just before the game selection screens loads, every time. Thanks, ill post it there too.

[Tatra]

Originally posted by Vicarious28:

It happens just before the game selection screens loads, every time. Thanks, ill post it there too.

Oh boo, you can't even get to the games :( Do try the file verification if you haven't already; while I'm no expert, that "OpenFileManual" bit in the error hints to me that it's trying to access a file that's either not there or is corrupted, and verification should fix that. Otherwise, best of luck, I hope you hear something soon :)

[sgt johnson]

Just posting wherever I see mention of this error, because I'm running into it as well!

[UnluckyLeo]

Same. Still not working.

[sgt johnson]

Ah, yo! I posted the Reddit post I found that worked for me! I don't see it at the moment, but search discussions for "crash fix" or something and hopefully you should see it! Just watch out after you do it, 'cause for me, it happened again a while later and I wondered if it mighta been 'cause my main drive (not the one I use for games, but that the PC first had) was really full and that's where UFO 50 seems to put saves. Let me know if ya can't find it, though and I'll try to dig through!

[Tatra]

This one? https://www.reddit.com/r/ufo50/comments/1fkwhrs/serious_bug_game_wont_start_up/

That, and a few others, mention an issue with audio routing software, specifically Wavelink. Anyone having the issue running that?

[sgt johnson]

Looked like I checked again just as Tatra commented, so I'm still waiting on the it to be approved and visible for me. Currently looking for the thread where I reposted the Reddit comment that worked for me!

[sgt johnson]

BOOM:

Link to thread:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1147860/discussions/0/4700162167909924837/#c4638238788728972557

My comment on that thread (hope it works for ya! Make sure to copy your save to another location if it works so you have a backup plan!):

Just found this Reddit post, tried it, and it worked for me! I'd just be careful and instead of deleting what it says to delete, do what I did and create a new folder to store it in, just in case!

Here's the post I followed:

I had this happen and lost my saved game. There is a backup of the saved game in ...\AppData\Local\ufo50\backup\

Close UFO 50
Take the last save1_[number].bak file in that directory and copy it into ...\AppData\Local\ufo50\
Delete save1.ufo
Rename the copied file to save1.ufo
Start UFO 50
Steam will tell you there's a conflict and offer cloud or local, choose local. Saved file is back.

If the last save1_[number].bak file doesn't work, try the number before it, etc., until you find one with your backed up save file on it (that doesn't crash).

[sgt johnson]

@Vicarious28

@UnluckyLeo

Was just gonna check back in to see if that solution worked for you! Hoping it does!