Enchantermon on 22/2/2007 at 05:23
SS2 has suddenly decided to stop letting me use hard saves. I can quicksave, but when I try to hard save, I get a "Not enough disk space" error. I have plenty of disk space, by the way. The "How to run SS2" thread suggested that I make sure my SS2 directory and files aren't read-only, so that's what I'm trying to do. Unfortunately, whenever I try to take the read-only attribute off of the SS2 directory and all of the files, it just comes right back! I'm running Windows XP Professional. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Enchantermon on 23/2/2007 at 03:14
Did that user.cfg thing already. Besides, that only affects when you're opening the game, not when you're saving games. I haven't tried reinstalling it, but I'd rather not if I don't have to.
Bjossi on 23/2/2007 at 20:47
I had heard of a solution where you simply have to add the "missing" number of MBs to the hard drive. If it nags about 40, add 40+ MBs onto the hard drive and see what happens.
june gloom on 23/2/2007 at 22:12
which just gives me an excuse to go find more porn.
Kolya on 23/2/2007 at 22:39
As if you needed an excuse for that dethtoll.
That solution is in the FAQ stickied at the top of this forum btw.
Nameless Voice on 23/2/2007 at 23:05
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GanjaStar on 23/2/2007 at 23:13
What is it about shock 2 that it has so many disk space read errors? whenever i reinstall the game it gives me a random disk space available estimate.
By the way your problem with hard saving is more xp related than shock 2 i think.
After i reinstalled windows, my old leftover partition was recognized as owned by someone else not me(my old xp install is the owner). Cause of this sometimes when i installed new games, after isntallation they imediatelly get deleted. it's an annoying issue so you shuold google "regain partition ownership in windows" issues. I found a fix but it was so random and obscure i forgot it.
Enchantermon on 27/2/2007 at 11:38
Mmkay.....first of all, I already tried the solutions in the FAQ to no avail. I
have been around for a while, you know. ;) Besides, this is different than (although I guess it could be related to) the problem where SS2 won't start due to "low" disk space.
Second of all, it doesn't really matter anymore, because the problem seems to have fixed itself, at least for now. Thanks, guys. :)
Quote Posted by GanjaStar
What is it about shock 2 that it has so many disk space read errors? whenever i reinstall the game it gives me a random disk space available estimate.
The FAQ probably has the best explaination. SS2 was programmed back when the largest hard drive was only 2 GB, so when it looks at a hard drive, it can only read the first 2 GB of data. If there's not enough space there, it doesn't think that it can run, because as far as it's concerned, that's all the disk space there is.
Quote Posted by GanjaStar
By the way your problem with hard saving is more xp related than shock 2 i think.
I wouldn't doubt it. Ever since installing SS2 on XP Pro it's seems to like to crash randomly; usually when I'm either attacking something, quicksaving, or hardsaving. I keep two backup hard saves, now, just in case.
Quote Posted by GanjaStar
it's an annoying issue so you shuold google "regain partition ownership in windows" issues.
Thanks for the suggestion, but my hard drive isn't partitioned, so that wouldn't really help anything.
Here's an interesting question. Would defragging the hard drive have any effect on SS2 working? If you think of the hard drive as a line with all of the data shoved to one end from a defrag operation, wouldn't that possibly keep SS2 from detecting the needed space in the first two gigs? Or am I missing something?
Nameless Voice on 27/2/2007 at 12:59
Quote Posted by Enchantermon
SS2 was programmed back when the largest hard drive was only 2 GB, so when it looks at a hard drive, it can only read the first 2 GB of data. If there's not enough space there, it doesn't think that it can run, because as far as it's concerned, that's all the disk space there is.
SS2 uses a 32-bit signed integer to store the amount of disk space available. Values can go from 0 to 2,147,483,647 bytes ( = 2048 MB = 2 GB). If there is more disk space than that, things get a little confused, and it starts counting again from zero.
So, if you have 2058MB of free disk space, then Dark will only detect the extra 10MB (2058 MB - 2048 MB = 10 MB).
