IVANX V 0.60.3- bug with autosave

It kinda feels bad to have my first post be a request of others people's time, I've read the forum a bit before and thought of registering but never did so because Im lazy and not much of an heavy poster, but, here I am doing it so I guess I should at least say "Hi people" (that was it) before continuing with the thread matter:

I've recently restarted playing IVAN and decided to go with X, I've played quite a bit, should have about 16 dead characters now, but this last one was going really good, I dont know if he's got what it takes to win the game since I never got much far but I think I could at least take on the enner beast, both him and the slave are very well equiped and with nice stats, I was going pretty good in gloomy cave level 3, pretty much unstoppable but then it happened...

My pc went down (old many reasons), when I finally got everything sorted out I came back to load the autosave to find this:



I pretty much suck with computers, is there anything that can be done? If I press retry it crashes. I really didnt want to lose this save, I was doing so well, even had loads of cash (near 3000 I think)

Thanks in advance for any answer, wonder if people still are around.

Character #17, sent to oblivion by Bill Gates in gloomy cave level 3.

More seriously, your save is a goner as far as I can tell. Crashes can sometimes cause save files to become corrupted, and AFAIK there isn't currently a way to restore them properly. Tough luck.

Yeah, I lost one of my best characters to BSoD, I know how you feel.

Oh well, guess that's it. thanks for the answers guys.

Damn, I doubt Ill ever be that lucky again, found a flaming sword in one of the first levels of UT followed by a chameleon whip and also before that kept finding +1 +2 +3 boots and gloves, loricatus upgraded my sword 2 or 3 times and I gave +2 or 3 to both weapons due to finding lots of scrolls, but even more amazing was that I found a torn dragon armor for sale in attnam wich got immediatly fixed thanks to loricatus giving me a scroll. had him and silva champion me (and had one phoenix feather arm thanks to her) and mellis was constantly giving me food. so many pots and food in my inventory that I nearly got stressed and also 2 each of invisibility and teleport wands for bad situations. I really dont know what was up with that game, I was just going so well... neutral gods are way too good to me, I dont know if I'll ever use any other alignment.

IVAN is the first game I've ever known to throw tantrums if it's losing.

Hahahahaha!!

But yeah Half, that sounds like a pretty good game. Sorry you lost the character. Keep it up though, and you'll get another good one in time

Personally I'd recommend playing IVAN 0.50 for best stability. Plus it's probably the most challenging version, and most of the known bugs are well documented.

@Ernomouse: A friend of mine had a electric chess board, it always went into critical error when it was near being checkmated

@Ischaldirh:this good enough?



@Warheck: Shall keep that in mind, thanks!
my problem with doing that now is that I would experience less content, maybe some day when I do everything that I can only do in this version I shall go back to that.

EDIT: nevermind the double fire res ring, I was playing around with some wands of fireball before, have some ring of acid resistance and infravision in stash waiting for me, also had at one point an amulet of lifesaving but It was kinda "taken from me" along with an arm in a crazy 3 way attack (should have teleported earlier)

2nd EDIT: forget it, went to the next level and attacked the goblin king, game froze, had an error and now I dont even have any save (had loaded own save recently) FML! Funnily enough I went to check the save folder and there were a lot of save files... all from the character that originally died due to buged autosave (still cant load them)

Not bad... I would suggest, if you are going to dual wield weapons, do it with weapons of the same class. That way you get more benefit from weapon experience. Also, be careful with artificial limbs and armor of health - high HP values are one of the triggers for some of the more dangerous boss spawns.

Sorry to hear it crashed again. You might have a corrupt file. Try playing basic IVAN (0.50 or CVS) and see if the problem persists...

Hmm, shall take those into consideration, just used different weapons because hey, telecontrol and invisibility on strong weapons. Wonder if I should really change... Im having so much fun and dont want to lose the list of deaths. I mean, its just the second time it happened and I had like 15 characters bettween both with no problems. (was experimenting a lot with killing people with bananas)
Do you think I should delete the old save files of the character that was lost to the bug? maybe that could have something to do with it... Well, if I get a third problem I'll go back to 0.50 , but I dont think both bugs are related, at least it just gave me an average "program had an error and has to be shutdown" on second one.

If crashes are becoming frequent then the most probable cause is that some file or other became corrupted. It happens sometimes. If it keeps crashing, I suggest you simply download it again. Easiest way to fix it.