Range Check Error problems

Askan Nightbringer · #1 February 18th, 2002, 09:09 AM

well here I was, happily playing away. submitted all my pbw turns on Friday.
come today and nothing works, getting range check errors everywhere. actually the error only occurs when I click on a sector with certain shipsets (still standard). some shipsets are fine, some generate the error.

i tried a reinstall and same problem

any ideas?

thanks,
askan

Grandpa Kim · #2 February 18th, 2002, 09:28 AM

Did you try downloading the turn(s) again? You may have a corrupted file.

Puke · #3 February 19th, 2002, 09:31 AM

or maybe reinstall your shipsets? or delete your custom shipsets and have it use the default until you can find out which one is broken?

all else fails, try reinstall? sounds like something with your local system, unless everyone else is having the same problem.

Askan Nightbringer · #4 February 20th, 2002, 04:56 AM

It was my bad.
I was getting the range check errors with all my games (even ones I'de previously played the turns before). No custom ship sets, no mods even.
I reinstalled to a new directory and the problem kept happening.
But I didn't actually reboot coz I was halfway through uploading an 80mb for work. When I rebooted the next day all was fine.
I assume SE leaves some temporary file around somewhere? I'm on Win2k and had no Se4 processes running so I can't understand what the problem was.

Cheers,
Askan

Skulky · #5 February 21st, 2002, 05:47 AM

I have recently upgraded to XP and i tried installing SE4 and playing it as usual however it became very difficult as any new games i started would be all black until i minimized and reopend (redrew in escence) the screen.

And any old savegames i tried to open woudl not with the following error... 'unable to open [path]'

I am in dire need of a solution as PBW is going on wihtout me.

Thanks

rja61 · #6 February 25th, 2002, 11:39 AM

I have been having the same issue big time. Have you had it happen after playing another game like Civ 3? That seems to be it for me.

Yohan

davetox1 · #7 February 25th, 2002, 08:06 PM

The range check error is a long existing problem and occurs whether or not you are using a moded scenario. It typically appears if you play SEIV shortly after booting up. When it occurs, it occurs with saved games or new games and SEIV is unplayable. The solution seems to be: If you use the PC for other purposes for a while and then launch SEIV, the error disappears. When it disappears, it disappears completely.

In an earilier post, someone guessed that it may be linked to the Windows temp file that is saved to the hard drive while you use your PC.

capnq · #8 February 25th, 2002, 08:12 PM

ISTR that the problem davetox1 describes was (mostly) limited to Dell laptops.

wr8th · #9 March 13th, 2002, 09:50 PM

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Bob Hope · #10 March 13th, 2002, 10:22 PM

I have tried rebooting reinstalling and i still havent been able to get rid of this problem. I took controll of the race that i thought was causing it and I was able to get past many turns with no problem, but as soon as I turned the AI back on and ended my turn "Range Check Error" and the game was locked up.