Lack of disk space crashes the game when saving

Matrix Games Forums

Forums Register Login Photo Gallery Member List Search Calendars FAQ

My Profile Inbox Address Book My Subscription My Forums Log Out

Lack of disk space crashes the game when saving

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Advanced Tactics Series >> Advanced Tactics Support >> Lack of disk space crashes the game when saving

Page: [1]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

Lack of disk space crashes the game when saving - 3/13/2008 7:18:32 PM

zook08

Posts: 138
Joined: 2/19/2008
Status: offline

..after I spent two hours on my turn...

Post #: 1

RE: Lack of disk space crashes the game when saving - 3/13/2008 9:00:49 PM

Tac2i

Posts: 2001
Joined: 4/12/2005
From: WV USA
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: zook08

..after I spent two hours on my turn...

Lack of adequate disk space will cause you all kinds of problems with lots of software. Just about anything that uses disk space to cache temporary files.

(in reply to zook08)

Post #: 2

RE: Lack of disk space crashes the game when saving - 3/14/2008 11:33:07 PM

Vic

Posts: 8262
Joined: 5/17/2004
Status: offline

Sorry zook,

The engine does not check diskspace. it just assumes you have at least a few MB available.

kind regards,
Vic

(in reply to Tac2i)

Post #: 3

RE: Lack of disk space crashes the game when saving - 3/15/2008 12:06:04 AM

zook08

Posts: 138
Joined: 2/19/2008
Status: offline

I didn't notice that the odds-and-ends partition where I store my PBEM files was almost full. But I saw that game files are first written to the disk uncompressed (in that case a temp file with > 20MB) and then compressed when it's all there (resulting in a 1.6 MB save file). Perhaps you could add a simple disk space check and a warning ("less than 30 MB free, that could cause trouble") before beginning to write the file? It's only a few lines of code, you don't have to calculate the exact amount needed.

(in reply to Vic)

Post #: 4

RE: Lack of disk space crashes the game when saving - 3/15/2008 11:26:32 AM

Vic

Posts: 8262
Joined: 5/17/2004
Status: offline

i will add checks in the next gold version.

< Message edited by Vic -- 3/15/2008 11:45:34 AM >

(in reply to zook08)

Post #: 5

Page: [1]

All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Advanced Tactics Series >> Advanced Tactics Support >> Lack of disk space crashes the game when saving

Page: [1]