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Home » news » forums » Space Empires V » Space Empires V General

Stream Read Error.

Submitted by apw2 on Tue, 2008-01-15 17:18. Space Empires V General

I keep receiving a message saying "Stream Read Error", the game screen minimizes and then crashes. I've no idea why it does this, it does it on the same exact turn each time i reload it, i think it has something to do with the system screens. At first i had a few ships auto-move, but these caused the game to crash, so i went back a few turns and manually moved my ships so when it came to this turn again it went straight to the news feed. I close that and the game crashes again with the error message.

Anyone know why it does this?

Edit: I've sort of tracked down the problem, i'm unable to look at many of the systems in the game, why i don't know. The previous turns i was able to look at them, i even have planets in one of the systems, but now i'm unable click on them without the game crashing.

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Re: Stream Read Error.

Submitted by Captain Kwok on Tue, 2008-01-15 18:29.

It's caused by a graphics error. One of the .bmp files has a weird file header that SE5 doesn't like. I'm assuming you're using some version of FQM?


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Re: Stream Read Error.

Submitted by apw2 on Tue, 2008-01-15 18:33.

Nope, thought it was too much hassle to bother getting it. All i have installed is unnamed's AI mod and numerous star trek shipsets. What i don't understand is why one turn i was able to look at any system, and the next i can only look at a couple of them. I'm sure its nothing to do with unnamed's AI mod or any of the shipsets, since i can go into a system which i've not explored (got the ancient race thing so i can see all), so i can't see any ships there, but it still crashes.

I've read that your meant to just resave all the .bmp via a program sch as Irfanview? There are quite a few .bmps...

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Re: Stream Read Error.

Submitted by BlackSwan on Wed, 2008-01-16 01:14.

I think it's most likely caused by the bmamapl.bmp in my Borg shipset.
download this one and use it to replace the original one.
http://rapidshare.com/files/84177447/bmamapl.rar.html

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Re: Stream Read Error.

Submitted by Phunky Phantom on Wed, 2008-01-16 04:14.

Yea I patched this up and is there anyway to fix my saved game that crashes now or am I stuck to restarting all over again with this shipset?

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Re: Stream Read Error.

Submitted by apw2 on Wed, 2008-01-16 08:07.

Blackswan, i'm bot sure if it is your shipset. I find that when i load the game up the game can crash if i enter certain systems, but if i end the turn, sometimes needs this doing twice, then the game runs smoothly again and i'm able to look at any system. Some of the systems that it does crash in don't have any borg ships present, in fact the only thing some have present are nebulas, so i'm not entirely sure how your shipset would make it crash at those places.

Phunky Phantom wrote:
Yea I patched this up and is there anyway to fix my saved game that crashes now or am I stuck to restarting all over again with this shipset?

Are you saying that the 'fix' has caused your game to stop working?

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Re: Stream Read Error.

Submitted by BlackSwan on Wed, 2008-01-16 11:19.

Phunky Phantom is right the new .bmp is givin me the error too, can fix by changing back to the original one.
Still think it's a .bmp in the borg set cause I had this error come up only one time in the game I played to see how the shipset looked.
I thought it was a corrupt save game or turn cause i loaded up a earlier turn and all
went well, the error never happen again.
This only happen the one time in the game with the borg, hasn't in any other game I've
played. When I read the Captain's reply about it being a bad .bmp file I remembered that
I had to change the bmamapl.bmp to another for the carrier in order for it to show up
in the ship viewer. This .bmp is still used by the Baseship that did not had this problem.
I seem to remember the error came up when the Baseship warped, maybe I am wrong but better
to be safe. I'll see what can be done with another .bmp

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Re: Stream Read Error.

Submitted by apw2 on Wed, 2008-01-16 11:51.

Hmm maybe your right, i did try the new one but found it crashed less often with the old one. But still it works ok sometimes, i managed to play 10 turns without any trouble and then it eventually crashed. I find a trick to it is to not have your ships auto moving at the start of your turn.

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Re: Stream Read Error.

Submitted by BlackSwan on Wed, 2008-01-16 12:02.

Ok, this new .bmp isn't giving me any problems and hope it fixes the Stream Read Error if indeed it was the cause

http://rapidshare.com/files/84286998/bmamapl.rar.html

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Re: Stream Read Error.

Submitted by apw2 on Wed, 2008-01-16 13:34.

In my brief test, all is working! yay! This latest .bmp seems to work 100% ok.
I'm loving this shipset!

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Re: Stream Read Error.

Submitted by BlackSwan on Thu, 2008-01-17 06:29.

I would still get the error when I clicked system to system
enough times, so I've reworked all the .bmp files. Not having any
troubles with the shipset now. Here is the new set:
http://rapidshare.com/files/84444885/Borgv2.rar.html

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