Hy! I have a similar problem as this person here http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=13084.0
I'm playing a savegame for 2 or 3 years now - and now i have a new PC, using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (instead of an older version i guess) and on the one hand i cant start the game when installing (unpacking) it on the desktop (as it always worked)
but when i get the game to work, using software center for installation, i cant load my old savegame! It shows this:
FATAL ERROR: loadsave_t::rdwr_str()
string longer (63190) than allowed size (1024)
PRESS ANY KEY
[CRASH]
instead of "63190" there's another number every time i try to load an old savegame file. but its always higher than 1024 ;)
so what does this mean? what can i do?
is the map too large (bigger than 1024x1024?), do I have too much pak files (I added downloaded pak files and files from pak128german to the pak128 folder (which I balanced out so it NEVER crashed until now with the new ubuntu and probably a different simutrans version installed (jsut copying the old files didnt work...))
thx for help!
the savegames are from Simutrans 112.3 r6520 - the current simutrans version is only 111.3.1 - but that's because I cant get simutrans to run when i unpack it manually or i.e. copy all files from my old computer. and when i use software center for installation, i cant choose the versions i want, it just picks the 111.3.1.! when i pick the correct versions by myself and unpack everything, nothing happens when i double click the "simutrans" application start file! how can this be?
If nothing happens at all you might need to make sure you've downloaded both the executable and a pakset, and also try setthing executable flags for the simutrans file if they aren't already.
I downloaded and unpacked simutrans 112.3 (executable) from here: (the simulinux version of course) http://sourceforge.net/projects/simutrans/files/simutrans/112-3/
then i downloaded pak128 112.2 (because there is no pak128 112.3), also from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/simutrans/files/pak128/pak128%20for%20112-2/ and unpacked the pak files IN the simutrans folder - but the "simutrans" start file doesnt react, even when i click "open as: executable" (or how this is translated - i speak german - "als anwendung öffnen")
This discussion seems to be in the wrong board. It might get more attention if it isn't filed under already solved problems.
It might as well be a wrong library since the exe is a 32bit exe. There is a 64bit nightly. However, for german speakers I recommend the German forum: http://www.simutrans-forum.de/ where you can get also german answers.
Seems that the problem has to do something with the libraries ... after installation of Simutrans 112.3 from here https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/myppa (112.3-0ubuntu1~ppa4~trusty1 ) it worked again!
But now I have another problem: When clicking on a depot, the game just crashes ^^
I posted this new issue here: http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=14124.0
thx for help anyway ;)