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ARGH!!!!!!!!!

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I was playing this morning, desperately trying to keep my job with the Canadiens. I had just started the free agency period and managed to sign Brad Richards and Ed Jovanoski, as well as resigning Saku Koivu when...
EHM.exe has encountered a problem and needs to shut down
:rant:

To make matters worse, I had turned off rolling saves. I lost two months.
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Post by archibalduk »

Man, two months - that's a heck of a long time. Must be so frustrating. You should have turned on auto save (I have it set to every 2 weeks).

Any idea why it crashed?
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Post by handzus »

i get this whenever i have the game running for a long period of time, it seems.
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Post by fifafan »

I haven't had this happen to me, but I have had my game crash after I <alt> <tab> to the desktop or another application. When I do that, I can't get back into EHM and I have to use task manager to shut the game down. :rant:

And I still don't use auto-save ](*,) :furious:
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Post by munky »

archibalduk wrote:Man, two months - that's a heck of a long time. Must be so frustrating. You should have turned on auto save (I have it set to every 2 weeks).

Any idea why it crashed?
No idea why it crashed.

It obviously had been going for quite a while, and I had been back and forth to the desktop several times without incident. All I had running besides the game at the time was Foobar, my audio player. It takes up barely any resources, so that shouldn't have hurt anything.

I'll chalk this up as a learning experience and turn autosave back on.
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Post by BlackCats101 »

I don't use the auto save either, as it creates annoying copies of the original all over the place (well, at least on FM). I try to save it fairly regularly though, although not more than once on the same day, as this used to corrupt my FM save games.
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Post by Tasku »

I've had to have three restarts because of crashing / save corrupt. Some of it was because of alt-tabbing, but stopping alt-tabs doesn't really completely take away the problem. Maybe the new patch fixed it. No crashes lately...

I autosave every two weeks, and don't mind the different names of the game, cause if it corrupts again, atleast I have some spot to continue from.

I never wanna restart again! ](*,) :rant: :cry:
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Post by archibalduk »

It only creates multiple save games if you use 'rolling saves'. If you turn that off and just use 'auto save' then it only uses the original saved copy.
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Post by munky »

This just keeps getting better.

Last night I fired up the game and was playing for about an hour. I had gone through training camp, scouted what seemed like every player on the planet, signed the best coaches and scouts available to me. Then...

The power went out.

](*,)
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Post by archibalduk »

Doh! Will the bad luck ever end?!! :-o
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Post by bruins72 »

I don't use autosave but I save all the time. If it's the off-season or training camp, I save about every week or so. If it's pre-season or regular season, I save before every game. I don't want to risk losing anything.
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