Lots of missing things after a forced system restart

[cezar_dan]

I've had this problem twice now, first after a virus kept restarting my computer every hour, and again after the power went out in the building half an hour ago. So far it seems to have broken two of my games (one of them at day 500) and I hope there is some way to fix it.

The bug itself is a collection of several bugs:

I. In my latest game
1. Tavern Keepers are missing. I've only checked Shariz and Halmar, but I have a suspicion that all cities are affected
2. Guild Masters and Village Elders are missing clothes
3. All shops were completely emptied for one day of money and everything except one suit of armor
4. My character's face has been completely reset
5. At least one lady has been reset to a male appearance and lacks clothes

II. In my earlier game

The first time I noticed a problem was in my first game, when my weekly budget report came in. I was still paying expenses, but all my income from my productive enterprises was 0. When I talked to one of masters about income the text said "INVALID OBJECT" when referring the product or raw material (I'm not sure). I don't know if this is happening in my current game.

I thought that it was related to a virus problem I had, but it's not. I can start a new game and things will be back to normal, but I don't want to do that again. Is there any way to fix this?

I'm using Mount & Blade Warband 1.142 as well as the Native Expansion mod. I thought of reporting it in the mod thread but since it involves a forced system restart I considered it is probably a general game bug.

My system is Windows XP Professional, Service pack 3, 1 GB RAM, AMD Sempron 2600+ Processor, Nvidia GeForce 5200 Graphics card (128 Mb).

 

[Caba`drin]

Sounds like your savegames got corrupted.
You can try to recover the save before your current save by going to the Savegame\<Module Name>\ folder and renaming last_savegame_backup.sav to sgXX.sav (where XX is 00-0.

Also, be sure you are using the correct version of Warband for the modules you are playing. The current version is 1.143 (1.142 had a couple of nasty crash bugs) so be sure you are up-to-date.

 

[cezar_dan]

Unfortunately it was already overwritten after the crash  . Is there any thing else that I could do except starting a new game?

 

[Caba`drin]

Unfortunately it was already overwritten after the crash  . Is there any thing else that I could do except starting a new game?

Not other than using an earlier save from the same game/campaign. Those files are the only backups and everything you've mentioned (missing clothes, reset face, etc) are all typical indicators of a corrupted save.

 

[cezar_dan]

I see  . Well I guess then that starting a new game is my only choice. I'll have to be a bit more careful with my saves from now on. Maybe make a backup of the backup, because the power outages a kind of a certainty in my building. Thanks for the help .