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#1 Twinkie

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Posted 10 May 2014 - 03:04 PM

Hello, I've been playing RCT2 for quite some time but now something happened I've never seen before.

I got a quite a huge park (very close to the attraction limit) and now when I try to remove or build a shop or ride, I get the error ''exception raised access violation'' and the game shuts off. Now I can't build any shop/ride nor remove one. I would like to remove a roller-coaster to replace it with something else, but I simply get this error. I've tried changing the compability but that didn't help. I don't think somethings really wrong with the game since all other saved parks work fine.

I tried checking the error on google but nowhere can I find people who had the same cause of this error as me.

In a nutshell: I can't remove or build any ride/shop since my game shuts off with the error.

I hope someone could help me, would be waste to delete this park I've been working on since 2008...

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Posted 10 May 2014 - 04:58 PM

The most common problem.

It is usually because a piece of scenery used in the park is not in your ObjData folder. It could also be that a piece of scenery has changed (been overwritten) by a piece with the same filename. It could also be because one of the required tabs doesn't have required scenery in it. Those are the top three.

Is it safe to assume you are using custom scenery?
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Posted 10 May 2014 - 05:30 PM

The most common problem.

It is usually because a piece of scenery used in the park is not in your ObjData folder. It could also be that a piece of scenery has changed (been overwritten) by a piece with the same filename. It could also be because one of the required tabs doesn't have required scenery in it. Those are the top three.

Is it safe to assume you are using custom scenery?


Thanks for your reply, this RCT2 hasn't been modded since I installed it. So it cant be custom scenery.

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Posted 10 May 2014 - 08:37 PM

But do you have custom scenery in your park or objdat folder?
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Posted 10 May 2014 - 09:46 PM

But do you have custom scenery in your park or objdat folder?


How do you mean? Downloaded scenery? (sorry for getting confused over this lol) I have never added anything custom to the game.

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Posted 10 May 2014 - 10:44 PM

Yes, custom scenery is usually downloaded. :D

Since all things are original in your game, did you change any scenery configurations (adding or removing from the scenery tabs) in the scenario since starting?

If no, then there is a rogue piece of scenery. It happens. Usually after a building session where the piece gets used, but sometimes just as it gets detected. Four ways to proceed...

1. If you make a backup after each session, go to the previous version of your park and see if it opens. If you don't make backups, well this is how people learn they should. I usually just add the next consecutive number to the park name. (parkname53, parkname54, parkname55, you get the picture) Save with the new number frequently or as you end the session.

2. In the Data folder (not ObjData) locate the game.cfg and the plugin.dat files. Move one to your desktop and reboot the game. If it does not work or boot, put it back and move the other and try rebooting the game and if possible your park. Sometimes these get rebuilt when they are missing and this solves the problem.

3. In our Downloads - Trainers and Utilities, there is a DatChecker V1.2 that will examine your dat files and give you a validity status on them all. This will identify sketchy or problem scenery.

4. This is the long and difficult way. Back up (copy) your ObjData folder somewhere for safekeeping. Now create an empty folder and move at most 5 pieces of scenery from the in game (original, not the backup copy) ObjData folder and reboot the game and your park. If you get the violation error, exit and move those back and then try the next 5 pieces. When the game and your park loads without the error - you have located 5 possible problems. Move each one back and reboot/reload until you get the error. When you get the error again, the piece you just moved back is the problem. Move it to the temp folder and the others back. It is not uncommon to have a bad piece of scenery from install. Let us know which one it is, and we can supply you with a replacement.

If none of these work, the last ditch attempt is to save your park file to the desktop, then uninstall the game, reboot, run a registry cleaner, and reinstall. After reinstallation, copy the park back. This does work if there is a game install or modification problem. But there is no guarantee that your saved game file is not damaged. You may want to check out the Saved Game Modifier program in that case. What do you have to lose?


Remember - backup, backup, backup each game as you build...

Good luck - and keep us posted.
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Posted 14 May 2014 - 09:15 PM

Thanks, I will try this real soon.. I will edit the post after and tell you the result. Many thanks for your assistance! Nice to see that many people still have interest in this game :P

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Posted 28 May 2014 - 08:12 PM

Hi, sorry for my inactivity. I was busy and couldn't check it for a while...

I tried everything you suggested and I re-installed the game + extensions completly. Still it's broken.

I can remove and build other rides now, so that isn't a problem but the rollercoaster I'm talking about in the original post is still bugged. After checking every rail piece I found out where the problem is!

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As you can see there is a missing rail piece! If I run the rollercoaster, the train just floats over it as you can see here:
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And I can't fix it because if I try to delete the rollercoaster the game crashes and if I modify that singe piece the game crashes also. I think it looks like I triggered some kind of weird bug...

I don't think my files are damaged since I ran I complete re-install. I hope you or someone else have an idea.

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Posted 28 May 2014 - 08:54 PM

So it is as though that section of track is there, but invisible. That is strange enough, but when deleting or editing the coaster causes a crash - that is compounding the strange...

Possibly someone here has some experience with that bug, but I suspect that there is an error now captured in your park file. Not sure how to proceed with that. :(
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Posted 28 May 2014 - 09:21 PM

I was afraid of that.. Anyways I really would to thank you for your time and support! Hopefully someone else will have an idea how to fix this and let me know.




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