PSA (Mac/Linux) (September 14, 2019) Major Engine Update

[flibitijibibo]

Wow, it's been a while!

This is a quick post to let everyone know that, after 5 years(!), I finally got around to updating this game to cover a bunch of issues:

- Performance is now insanely good, both CPU and memory performance is great.
- Video cutscenes should be smooth as butter now!
- The DLC skin works now!

I tried to get save data on a single shared file for Windows, but this caused some save data changes exclusively for the Linux/macOS->Windows transition (the other way around was fine somehow).

Point being, the XNA and FNA versions are more stable and MUCH faster now, but they're still a little bit separate. Never ship BinaryFormatter, people.

[boltronics]

Thanks for the update! I was pleasantly surprised to see this appear in my download queue today.

[ВА-ВА-ВАДИК]

Gyjh

[Lumsev]

After the update, launching the game with old save file gives me a blank window. If I disable Steam Cloud and remove the save file, the game runs normally.

Launching from the terminal gives the following log:

System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Unable to load type System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[[CircuitGame.CampaignTypeEnum, CircuitGame, Version=1.0.49.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null],[CircuitGame.StoryData, CircuitGame, Version=1.0.49.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]] required for deserialization.
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.ObjectManager.CompleteObject (System.Runtime.Serialization.ObjectHolder holder, System.Boolean bObjectFullyComplete) [0x00181] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.ObjectManager.DoNewlyRegisteredObjectFixups (System.Runtime.Serialization.ObjectHolder holder) [0x00040] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.ObjectManager.RegisterObject (System.Object obj, System.Int64 objectID, System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationInfo info, System.Int64 idOfContainingObj, System.Reflection.MemberInfo member, System.Int32[] arrayIndex) [0x00165] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectReader.RegisterObject (System.Object obj, System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ParseRecord pr, System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ParseRecord objectPr, System.Boolean bIsString) [0x00079] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectReader.RegisterObject (System.Object obj, System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ParseRecord pr, System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ParseRecord objectPr) [0x00000] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectReader.ParseObjectEnd (System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ParseRecord pr) [0x000c1] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectReader.Parse (System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ParseRecord pr) [0x0005b] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.__BinaryParser.Run () [0x00255] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectReader.Deserialize (System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.HeaderHandler handler, System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.__BinaryParser serParser, System.Boolean fCheck, System.Boolean isCrossAppDomain, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.IMethodCallMessage methodCallMessage) [0x00069] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Deserialize (System.IO.Stream serializationStream, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.HeaderHandler handler, System.Boolean fCheck, System.Boolean isCrossAppDomain, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.IMethodCallMessage methodCallMessage) [0x000a2] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Deserialize (System.IO.Stream serializationStream, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.HeaderHandler handler, System.Boolean fCheck, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.IMethodCallMessage methodCallMessage) [0x00000] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Deserialize (System.IO.Stream serializationStream, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.HeaderHandler handler, System.Boolean fCheck) [0x00000] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Deserialize (System.IO.Stream serializationStream, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.HeaderHandler handler) [0x00000] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Deserialize (System.IO.Stream serializationStream) [0x00000] in <275d01bd607046a2a7b0768e2a2d9ac2>:0
  at CircuitGame.DataManagement.Initialize (System.Boolean ForceInitalize, System.Boolean AllowDataConversion) [0x0010b] in <6641e8de44904f748d6da5d50803e365>:0

Comparing the save files, it seems that the following

[CircuitGame.NameValuePair, CircuitGame, Version=1.0.49.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]

was changed to

[CircuitGame.NameValuePair, AVNT, Version=1.0.49.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]

Is there a way to update my old save file to be compatible with the new format?

[flibitijibibo]

Just pushed an update for the serializing process, can you try this savedata again?

[Lumsev]

Got the update, but behavior is still the same (just 6641e8de44904f748d6da5d50803e365 in the last line of the trace changed to e99bd44c78ba4a1d9b6d0bc60a95b774).
I can send my save file if needed, just let me know where.

[flibitijibibo]

Originally posted by Psimoose:

Got the update, but behavior is still the same (just 6641e8de44904f748d6da5d50803e365 in the last line of the trace changed to e99bd44c78ba4a1d9b6d0bc60a95b774).
I can send my save file if needed, just let me know where.

Anywhere's fine!

[Rumbleforge]

Just tried to run this on CachyOS and I couldn't get any version to run unfortunately.