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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0006316 | Dwarf Fortress | Technical -- General | public | 2013-05-15 21:57 | 2014-01-20 19:05 |
| Reporter | Pickerel | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | high | Severity | block | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | no change required | ||
| OS | Windows 8 64 bit | OS Version | Windows 8 64 bit | ||
| Summary | 0006316: Error on attempted startup, user error in knowledge base. | ||||
| Description | I recently got a new laptop, and I don't have any internet access with it yet, but of course the very first thing I want to do is to download DF and see how many dwarves its capable of running with until the FPS is lower than HFS - lower than the fort's productivity in a booze shortage - lower, I say, than the mood of a cat lover in a fully sustainable fortress. I downloaded a version for windows onto my external HD using one of the macs in the lab (I made sure it was the windows version I DLed. It was mirror 2 of the SDL versions, if that matters). Also for reference, the mac version works just fine on the mac that I used as the go-between, but that's not this version anyway so irrelevant. Anyway, so I brought the external over and copied and pasted the file onto the 'desktop' and opened it, and it had the cute little DF icon with it's 9MB game file waiting for me to click it to assume godhood over a motley set of dwarves. I click on it... and immediately get this error: "One of the compressed files on disk has errors on it. Restore from backup if you are able." So I came online to find a solution. First, I tried re-downloading, in case that was indeed just a corrupt file, but that didn't seem to help. Second, I came to the forums, and found that supposedly a similar problem can be fixed by running in a different compatibility mode. I tried each possible mode, including each possible mode with reduced color settings, to no avail. The only difference is that some modes specifically ask if I Im sure I would like to run the program, forcing me to click 'run' at which point it gives the error, while some modes just try to run it and give the error. Third, it seems that file saves, when corrupted due to compression on 64bit systems, give this error. As such, I went into the init and disabled save compression, as is recommended when one starts to have save corruption issues, even though I have no save files (I have yet to successfully run the program on this computer, so surely couldn't generate any such files yet, but I figured it was worth a shot since my current computer knowledge, having been away for so long, is mediocre at best so I am low on options/things to try). This had no effect. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | 1. Buy a new laptop. It must have windows 8 64 bit. 2. DL DF to EX HD, transfer to new laptop. 3. Try to run program. See above for further details. | ||||
| Additional Information | Of course its something - perhaps some setting - with my computer, but what I know not. Advice on a workaround or fix is wonderfully welcome. Thanks in advance! | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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I can't tell from the description if you're unzipping the game files onto your hard drive at any point. If that doesn't explain it, please reopen this report. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2013-05-15 21:57 | Pickerel | New Issue | |
| 2014-01-20 19:05 |
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Note Added: 0024288 | |
| 2014-01-20 19:05 |
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Status | new => resolved |
| 2014-01-20 19:05 |
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Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2014-01-20 19:05 |
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Assigned To | => user6 |
