Yesterday I wanted to load game that I saved in May of this year (because I needed to see something) - but game crashed in the beginning of loading process.
Today I made tests to find if it is pakset related (for example some special addons - or some new graphics) - and even called crashing was with and without tollgates in addon queue - and also with older graphics.
Then I tested older versions of exe files and I found that last version that can load older games has number 4835.
OS: Win XP
Version of game: both (SDL and GDI)
None of the save load code was changed since 4835 and my old games were still loading fine. Do you have such a game to test?
Via topic Trains go on wrong way (http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=8159.msg77350#msg77350) graphics - and from here (http://www.ulozto.cz/10599590/vma-cz-25-sve) download that save.
Both files are at the same place. So order for download is the same, of course. At first download graphics, there is described order for downloading.
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At this time it seems that else older files can be loaded by current version.
So, it is much more odd than previously.
I am going to try to reload it with 4835 - and re-save ... and I shall see what I shall see.
I could not download your files, I just got timeouts after clicking everything the page requires. Maybe they exclude germany from downloads?!?
It is quite strange that you got timeouts.
As I added to my previous post in this topic, I tried to load else older (much older) game and it was loaded right. I hope that loading in under 4835 and re-saving will help.
I could load this fine, after I managed to download your testgame.
... I did what I wrote - and I can load it fine again.
... but tell me (and it is not related to this topic): Were changed choose_signals? Because I saw that trains which need to only go through any station, they wait there - until way is free - meanwhile originally they ignored them - and ...