Plutonia save bug

[guitarkitty]

Hi,

I'm on level 30 in Plutonia, only to find I can't save it. I've successfully saved it just before all the monsters (including the Rocket man) appear, but if I try to save it beyond this point, and load the game up, it comes up with a

signal_handler() : segment violation

I've read some people have had this error message before, but without a way of resolving the problem.

Any help would be much appreciated, I'd hate to have to go through all such a long process without being able to save it.

[ich]

What exe are you using? vanilla, Doom95 or a port?

[FATAL]

Legacy it seems.

[Jet1337]

Oooh...Legacy is full of bugs.

[jake250]

Legacy hates level with spawner, they are EXTREMELY glitchy in legacy. In fact, I wouldn't even play these level in Legacy, and all these segment violation are the reason why Legacy is not worth much these days.

[Kristian]

The problem is found in the original executables as well as some source ports. It can cause a crash when the boss shooter is in a level. It saves its target spots in a list when it awakes but this list isn't saved and not re-initialized after loading a game. So the data in it will most likely be corrupt after loading a game of such a level. Almost all source ports fix this bug. If you absolutely want to play with Doom.exe (or whatever engine you're using), don't save on a level with a boss shooter! It's the only way to avoid crashes for sure.

[paraphrased from a post found in "another" Doom forum]