Can't save ships (O_o)

TacticianMark · Post by **TacticianMark** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:59 am

I'm not sure why, but all my shipmaker does when I tell it to save my current project is simmer a little bit and nothing else. Please tell me if there's any way to correct this (I just spent quite awhile working on this ship) or an alternate way of saving the ship.

Sponge · Post by **Sponge** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:18 am

Are you using Vista? Is UAC on? If so, either turn UAC off or run SM with a Right Click > Run as administrator and see if that works.

TacticianMark · Post by **TacticianMark** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:07 am

I'm so sorry, I should've mentioned my system specs earlier:
Windows XP SP 3
512 RAM
Pentium III
Nvidia GeForce 5200

(yes I know, it's ancient, isn't it)

Sponge · Post by **Sponge** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:32 am

In that case, I've got no idea. As far as I know, there's nothing about what you posted that clashes with BSF. The issue is, therefore, something you haven't posted. The standard procedure would be to uninstall and reinstall the whole game. The installer seems to bugger up from time to time.

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:05 am

Have you tried the shortcuts? Or launching the game since that automatically saves it? Do you have anything running in the background? I've had some programs interfere with bsf...

TacticianMark · Post by **TacticianMark** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:04 am

I've tried the shortcuts and launching the game. Again, all it did was flicker a bit and nothing more. As for background programs, I have the typical security + firewall.

I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT:
In the end though, it turns out that what prevented me from saving the ship was a colon [ : ] in the ship's name. >_> Kinda odd, I remember the older version allowed to you save with a colon character in the ship's name, just not the save file. I guess we really do learn from our own mistakes, eh? lol.

Thanks for your help though; I really appreciate it ^_^