satoru wrote:

It could also be your anti-virus killing the zip. try to dsiable your av temporariy

Well I don't care if you are just suggesting random stuff or not.

BUT THX, the culprit is the Antivirus Scanner!!!! I disabled it completly and it works as it should. Adding the Endless Space 2 folders in Steam and in My Documents to exceptions does not work. Is there another folder which should be added to exceptions?

Cudos to you, Sir. I didn't think about that because it worked just fine before with the same Antivirus Scanner.

Redeemer, could you try disabling the Antivirus and test it?

OK I tried an older version and the beta patch. Both times the problem still exist. But hte new beta patch shows an acutal game will be saved promt. The end turn button has a little animation. Still it doesn't make a difference.

We ll have to wait for a fix until then we are back to the '90s. Manual save, rename, load.

There are other bugs as well.

30% of the times i press "Quit to desktop" the game never exits. It remains stuck on that screen. I have to kill the process with ctrl+alt+del

Honestly this still seems like a permissions issue on your save game folder

Delete the entire My Documents\Endless Space 2 folder

satoru wrote:

Honestly this still seems like a permissions issue on your save game folder

Delete the entire My Documents\Endless Space 2 folder

I tried it, still no save files. Only the .tmp files which I must manually convert bye deleting the .tmp ending. I also checked the permission beforehand. But thx for the tip.

What is curios is the naming of the Auto Save files:

AutoSave 1.zip.1.tmp

AutoSave 1.zip.2.tmp

Test.zip.0.tmp

Test was saved on turn 1. The Autosaves where made two turns in a row. Shouldn't the naming change to: AutoSave 1.zip.tmp and Autosave 2.zip.tmp ??? Could it be, that the naming does mess something up? If I delete everything behind .zip I get to identical named files. This shouldn't be. Perhpas this is messing with the save files.

It could also be your anti-virus killing the zip. try to dsiable your av temporariy

I am having the same problems recently. Worked before the newest patch or the one patch before.

In the save game folder new temporary Save Files are created. Chnaging their file extension from .tmp to .zip solves the problem. It's a workaround. I too cannot delete saves ingame or override them. So it's time to really save manually I guess. :-)

I reinstalled, deleted all safe files and deleted the dependencies without any change. Still not able to save.

I already tried mate. One of the first tests as show in the previous posts. Will try again though. 

At the moment this issue is not a problem. I have other problems with the game but at least they are not game breaking :)

Redeemer wrote:

I already tried mate. One of the first tests as show in the previous posts. Will try again though. 

At the moment this issue is not a problem. I have other problems with the game but at least they are not game breaking :)

Ah OK. Sorry, didn't noticed your first post where you stated that you turned off AVG. Bye the way I also use AVG.

OK I reinstalled AVG and it works again. AVG is turned on now and I am able to save again. Don't know what happened. Seems the Antivir had some hiccups.

So try to reinstall your Antivir and see if it works.

Same issue here, AVG is the problem but reinstalling it did not help.

Folks,

Sorry for joining the frey so late. I was focused on the the development of the latest patch. We have fixed an issue with Avast anti-virus being unhappy with moving tmp to zip files. 

In preview patch 1.036, we have renamed saved files to a .sav extension (old .zip files are still read for compatibility).

Can you check this preview patch to let us know if it fixes the issue?

Thanks

This problem is fixed with the latest patch. I can save/ load / see a populated list fine. Your fix worked. Thank you. 

It was annoying to manually rename files, among other bugs. For the record I was using AVG.

Closing the thread as solved. 

Thanks for taking the time to let us know!

I saw the access denied in the Documents folder but that shouldnt be the case. All users have full control. I even added "Everyone" in the list with Full control. Still i get the results i showed above

Try running steam as an admin

Could you upload your The Diagnostics file ?

It's In the "%My Documents%/Endless Space 2/Temporary Files" Folder

Diagnostics - [Time&Date].html of the game when it did not save (there are ten of these files so make sure to get the right one, the time and date in the file name describe when the game was launched)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ol7qjhssrcw5lht/Diagnostics%20-%202017%2707%2705%20%402202%2718%27%27.html?dl=0

The above is the dropbox link from a game i run until round 5 and saved with name TutorialSave. (no need to mention that it didnt work)

Thanks for the replies. These steps might take a while. This is my development pc and i dont install programs i dont know. I ll have to research the one you suggested (its from microsoft so it can be trusted) and follow the above steps. Still though, i bought a game , i find it wierd that i have to debugg it. Im not in the dev team :)

Access path is denied will most probably mean that it tries to do things it shouldn't. Since the files are already created and all "legal" priviledges given to the application. I can assume that it's a game bug.

This reminds me of a CRAP ERP i was working (as a user) and all antiviruses were seeing it as a virus. Ah good times.

It's a Portable Executable so not installation required but it does require administrator privliages.

It's part of the Sysinternals suite which is a great set of tools.

It might be trying to do something it needs to but due to an external factor it can't e.g. Special or accented characters in a file path can cause a program to go looking for a non-existent folder

Jesus Christ is this normal? So many errors. So many buffer overflows / name collitions / name not found / no such file errors. I wonder if this game is even tested. Anyway. 

Lets begin. 

- First i want to thank you again for this nice little program (although in this little time i barely scratched the surface). 

- The game autosaves but they dont show in the load list, only in the folder. Thus i cant load them

- Ctrl+f5 creates a file in the save directory but still i cant see in the load list

- ctrl+f9 doesnt seem to work in game.

- I cant understand all these things so to speed things up i will give the following dropbox link showing what happens when i click save. Im sure you can analyze it better than me. 

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/ly5syg26bhvnrku/debugging%20endless%20space2.png?dl=0

- I am also showing my save folder. I forgot to ask earlier: are these names as they are supposed to?

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/9h4npjblhb9m177/save%20folder.png?dl=0

Here is the log you requested https://www.dropbox.com/s/ifgl927i57u4hzy/Logfile.PML?dl=0

I open the game, run new game->tutorial and tried to save at round 1. Then i exit .

I've looked at a bit of the log many of the byffer overflows are fine. It's just the program is asking for data but does not know the length of it. it starts with a small buffer but sometimes thats too small a buffer overflow happens and the progam reissues the request with a now correct buffer size. it's not erroneous overwriting of data.

I don't like the look of the errors its having with ddraw.dll/d3d9.dll/d3d.dll/opengl32.dll Something is going on your computer but i'm not sure what; maybe a required service is stopped, or ES2 or it's depedancys are not installed correctly.

Have you tried renaming the .tmp files to .zip and see if they load. 

Does it give the same errors when ran as administrator ? 

If there was a problem with my pc i would give you, or any other interested, any diagnostics you need to find out what the problem is. But i have hundrends of programs and tens of games installed. Not a single one has a problem.

This is the only game - program - app that behaves so wierd letting me believe that it is still too fresh and needs more development time. 

Redeemer wrote:

As for ES2 dependencies well the game was installed from steam so i can't do much for it.

Some ES2 dependencies can be found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Endless Space 2\_CommonRedist if you want to try reinstalling them, may help, probably won't but it's unlikely to do any harm.

Also changing file extension from .tmp to .zip seems to make the file available in save/load list. And here we go:

- I tested another 3-4 rounds (limited sample) and it seems that so far it works. Will continue testing.

- Furthermore i can't override the (renamed) save. When i try nothing happens. So every time i 'll have to pick another name. 

- Also i cannot delete save files from in game. It simple doesnt work. I choose cancel and im redirected to the previous list. 

It's good your atleast able to play now. it seems something is stoping the game from making changes to files in the save directory but not making new files, so thats odd. but I can't think of how to solve it.

Are you a developer in Endless Space 2? Im new to these games2together thing and i cant tell by the icon. 

I'm not a dev, just an active user. Dev's have a little [DEV] Tag by their name

You rock. Many many thanks mate. You already spent quite some time to my issue. /respect

I' ll keep this open in case something needs to be added in the future.