Fallout 2 Game save files bugged, Please help!

[【ｗａｓｔｅ】]

So this error happens everytime i try to load my save: http://imgur.com/ofVAdjD

It started when i was in "Redding" and i walked from "Great wanamingo mine" to "Downtown", it started lagging like hell and then i save the game and restarted the steam and the game.

Yes, All save files are bugged, even the saves where im in a different place dont work.


Here is what i have already tried:

-Deleted the game files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

-Re-intalled the game to: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common

-Installed the latest rp mod

Note: I have used the same "SAVEGAME" file when i re-installed the game.


The game works fine when i start a new game but when i open the saves the game just keeps crahsing the same way.

[Silverangel]

Dont know if theres savegame compability between other version of mods. (when you used a other version and/or more mods before).
Make sure its a clean install (delete gamefolder by Hand) and dont use more than F2 + RP mod.

Normally would say Save in different slots (what you do). So this is weird that all Saves bugged.
So normally its something about not Clean game (or you changed yourself something)
Be sure to install F2 in English, cause RP mod is English too. Other languages can make failures too.
So which language u installed, did you used savegame editor or something like that? Any info can help.

And after clean new install, better to start a new game. Dont think you have big chances to get your old Saves back.

[【ｗａｓｔｅ】]

Thank you very much for the reply!

I don't think i did anything wrong trying to fix this so the problem is gotta be something else that i didn't notice.

Yeah... i have read so many forum post and such that i dont think i will fix the problem anywhere in the future, better start a new game than spend too much time on this.

But really, thank you for your reply and your time! :)

[Angry Wasp]

I have this exact same problem.

Making a new game and saving still lets me load that save file, but all the multiple saves I have for my current playthrough give this out of memory error. Any solutions would be appreciated.

Thanks

[TheNextToLastSolstice]

My SO/waifu ran into this problem, despite making sure to stagger all ten save files, because every single one was corrupt (saving worked fine, but going back to load caused the exception/crash) so I decided to actually figure out a solution.

In our case, I was able to download the Fallout 1/2 Save File Editor by "vad" (F12se.exe from No Mutants Allowed) and, under the World Map subtab of the corrupted save, delete *.sav references (one by one) until I identified that the NCR (NCRENT.sav) file was causing the problem. Deleting that one .sav (which by the way, represented almost no questing and only ~5mins of a 10 hour run) seems to have completely fixed the problem and allowed loading/resaving/loading.

This game is old at this point and it has *many bugs*. I can't guarantee this fix will work in the general case (there are some experts who have tried very hard to fix them and may the Spaghetti Monster bless them) but it's worth a shot.

For what it's worth, I also *did not* have to edit anything else (including inventory/global vars/combat info/location/car location) even though, as mentioned, this was a decently accomplished saved file with a lot of items/quests/followers in play.

[ogreballerina]

I got a out of memory error and crash yesterday.
I just verified game files ( 9 files had to be installed ) and then re-installed the RP mod and viola it went back to working...all my old saves were there.

[diligent_d]

^ That worked! Thanks for the post, Trash. I've been wondering about this for a while.

[Wolf]

I have this same problem and everytime i try to delete NCRNET.sav it always comes back after i load a save

[BLANCOdeCOMBATE]

R.I.P MrLunfardo

[stcaFylnO]

Originally posted by stcaFylnO:

Prevention, reversion, and avoidance may be the only recourse.

I'm going to seed this reply in all posts listed below, so we can easily jump from page to page. It might be a good idea to re-title your OP, since the Mad Brahmin event is the location of issue, not the actual bug.

I had that error recently. It was every time I tried planting eplosives on Bishop's safe, the game would crash to desktop. Eventually I had to revert to a previous save, then kill him with Stimpaks instead. Reason? I had already picked, unarmed, and emptied safe in a previous visit.

I know my thread regarding save corruptions seems like a different bug, but the location and behavior aside, there are a lot of details to help workaround the issues.

Save corruptions, like my Sulik one, are not always immediately apparent. They may be asymptomatic for a long period of time. So, always have an archived "safety" for reversion. Example: Before visiting a new area. If symptoms develop within a slot, revert to a safety point, delete any assumed corrupted slots (or overwrite), then replay from that point.

Remember to NEVER save the game while explosive timers are active. There are many posts online regarding corruptions in this manner. I'm so nervous, I never save while Super stimpaks are active either, not to mention any timers, events, or active NPCs.

Beware of revisits! I've also had a helpful corruption (minor exploit), since K-9 joined party while illegally exceeding the party limits.

There is also another thread where someone used a utility to fix a corrupted save. I'll list some references below.

Refs:
Fallout 2 Game save files bugged, Please help!
https://steamcommunity.com/app/38410/discussions/0/530645446324071811/
Especially the post by "TheNextToLastMetroid", for his save game editor/utility

Fallout 2 Crash
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2045037
Note: The support page recommended these already, but neither of us had success with them.

Bug: K-9 joins, exceeds party limit.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/38410/discussions/0/154644349173009966/
Another example of inconsistent program behaviors upon revisiting areas

Bug: Save Corruptions
http://steamcommunity.com/app/38410/discussions/0/154643982160672462/
See the "Workarounds" in both posts

Mad Brahmin glitch
http://steamcommunity.com/app/38410/discussions/0/154644349169323027/

The Instruction at 0x referenced memory at 0x The memory could not be read
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1274-uohk-5653

[roxon]

Originally posted by TheNextToLastMetroid:

My SO/waifu ran into this problem, despite making sure to stagger all ten save files, because every single one was corrupt (saving worked fine, but going back to load caused the exception/crash) so I decided to actually figure out a solution.

In our case, I was able to download the Fallout 1/2 Save File Editor by "vad" (F12se.exe from No Mutants Allowed) and, under the World Map subtab of the corrupted save, delete *.sav references (one by one) until I identified that the NCR (NCRENT.sav) file was causing the problem. Deleting that one .sav (which by the way, represented almost no questing and only ~5mins of a 10 hour run) seems to have completely fixed the problem and allowed loading/resaving/loading.

This game is old at this point and it has *many bugs*. I can't guarantee this fix will work in the general case (there are some experts who have tried very hard to fix them and may the Spaghetti Monster bless them) but it's worth a shot.

For what it's worth, I also *did not* have to edit anything else (including inventory/global vars/combat info/location/car location) even though, as mentioned, this was a decently accomplished saved file with a lot of items/quests/followers in play.

I just resolved my issue with Fallout2/RestorationProject using that method. Although I removed all (except NewReno as I was in that location while game saving) city .SAV files, and changed the date to next day. BUT: the best solution is to find one responsible file, or erase only those city-files that you dont intend to visit anymore (it influence npc behavior).

But this solution definitely works! Many thanks mate!

[Meidi]

Originally posted by TheNextToLastMetroid:

My SO/waifu ran into this problem, despite making sure to stagger all ten save files, because every single one was corrupt (saving worked fine, but going back to load caused the exception/crash) so I decided to actually figure out a solution.

In our case, I was able to download the Fallout 1/2 Save File Editor by "vad" (F12se.exe from No Mutants Allowed) and, under the World Map subtab of the corrupted save, delete *.sav references (one by one) until I identified that the NCR (NCRENT.sav) file was causing the problem. Deleting that one .sav (which by the way, represented almost no questing and only ~5mins of a 10 hour run) seems to have completely fixed the problem and allowed loading/resaving/loading.

This game is old at this point and it has *many bugs*. I can't guarantee this fix will work in the general case (there are some experts who have tried very hard to fix them and may the Spaghetti Monster bless them) but it's worth a shot.

For what it's worth, I also *did not* have to edit anything else (including inventory/global vars/combat info/location/car location) even though, as mentioned, this was a decently accomplished saved file with a lot of items/quests/followers in play.

I'm gonna necro this because there's not a whole lot of solutions on this matter and say that this one works really well. Suddenly experienced this crash too on another computer (saves were transferred via Steam Cloud) while being super late in the game and decided to scramble through those .SAV files with that save editor.
The responsible ones in my case were files relating to Arroyo village (except ARBRIDGE and ARDEAD), which were present in the save editor, but not in the folder of my Cloud save (the GECK was already obtained). Deleted them through the editor and the game booted up just fine after that.

[Zlize]

I have the same problems. Don't use mods thou

[Arcadius Ragnal]

I'm going to leave here my experience and solution in hope it might help someone else with the same predicament.

So recently I bought an offer with all three original titles (FO1,FO2,FOT) and decided to play through them again after so many years.

While at 23 hours in FO2, I switched PCs and used cloud to sync my save data. That corrupted all the save slots and would get the typical memory error every time I tried to load any of them (note that I could start a new game normally). I tried almost all of the mentioned solutions (patches, editor (which could not read my save files for some reason), re-installing, etc.) to no avail.

I had almost given up when I decided to try a simple thing. I turned off cloud, run the game in the 1st PC and saw it was running with no problem. I copied the whole Fallout 2 file and paste it on the second PC after I deleted the original file. That seemed to fix everything. I guess the game doesn't like cloud...

I know it is a very simple method and kinda brutish. In many cases this can cause directory errors in a game but it worked for this one.

[JAM]

Originally posted by Arcadius Ragnal:

I'm going to leave here my experience and solution in hope it might help someone else with the same predicament.

So recently I bought an offer with all three original titles (FO1,FO2,FOT) and decided to play through them again after so many years.

While at 23 hours in FO2, I switched PCs and used cloud to sync my save data. That corrupted all the save slots and would get the typical memory error every time I tried to load any of them (note that I could start a new game normally). I tried almost all of the mentioned solutions (patches, editor (which could not read my save files for some reason), re-installing, etc.) to no avail.

I had almost given up when I decided to try a simple thing. I turned off cloud, run the game in the 1st PC and saw it was running with no problem. I copied the whole Fallout 2 file and paste it on the second PC after I deleted the original file. That seemed to fix everything. I guess the game doesn't like cloud...

I know it is a very simple method and kinda brutish. In many cases this can cause directory errors in a game but it worked for this one.

What if you only have cloud save? What to do then?

[JAM]

Originally posted by Rambo:

Several years after, i was playing fallout2 again and after about 94 hours of playing, after finishing the game i got crashes when leaving map areas through the green grids. Well, after reading several forums and other site, installing the latest killaps, unnoficcial patches, i've found a site with this link: [removed] (download it with firefox because google chrome blocks it thinking it's a threat) You have just to run it in your fallout2 folder and then execute the program. It fixed all my saved files and the crashes were gone.

Bye!

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