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Another "Unexpected Error"...
This time in Moonlight Falls. At least this time I only lost two game days of progress since I had just made a fresh save in case I decided I didn't like the turn the story just took and wanted to backtrack. More on that later.
I did a search and got quite a few results regarding the "unexpected error", with the most helpful result being this post on Reddit: The Most Reliable Guide to Resolving Your Error Code 12 Woes. The post gives some helpful tips regarding handling memory issues. Some things I was already doing, like always using Save As instead of Save and using the save cleaner. Other things, like resetting the town, was not being done as often as I should. Saving is also best done in Map View rather than live view. I hadn't really thought about that before but it makes sense that Map View requires less resources than life view.
Finally, I just need to save more often, even it means using a timer to make sure I don't allow hours to go by without saving.
I'll add a cut here since I can see that this might be lengthy: ( Read more... )
I did a search and got quite a few results regarding the "unexpected error", with the most helpful result being this post on Reddit: The Most Reliable Guide to Resolving Your Error Code 12 Woes. The post gives some helpful tips regarding handling memory issues. Some things I was already doing, like always using Save As instead of Save and using the save cleaner. Other things, like resetting the town, was not being done as often as I should. Saving is also best done in Map View rather than live view. I hadn't really thought about that before but it makes sense that Map View requires less resources than life view.
Finally, I just need to save more often, even it means using a timer to make sure I don't allow hours to go by without saving.
I'll add a cut here since I can see that this might be lengthy: ( Read more... )