Advise

[Maltay (OP)]

I wonder if the repeated corruption of the database is related to the fact that you are using an SSD drive.  This game is intensely database oriented, and involves a lot of data-writes.  Only Steve would know how many per time advance on a typical game, but I suspect you may be draining you drive's useful lifetime.  

Hmmm...is there anyone else present who is using an SSD drive with out problems?

Kurt

An interesting question.  Hopefully someone else uses an SSD as well and can comment.

[ZimRathbone]

I wonder if the repeated corruption of the database is related to the fact that you are using an SSD drive.  This game is intensely database oriented, and involves a lot of data-writes.  Only Steve would know how many per time advance on a typical game, but I suspect you may be draining you drive's useful lifetime.  

Hmmm...is there anyone else present who is using an SSD drive with out problems?

Kurt

An interesting question.  Hopefully someone else uses an SSD as well and can comment.

Dont really know about SSD's but I've been running Aurora from a 4GB thumbdrive, on and off for about 3 years, and SA for at least a year before that with few problems - certainly not the repeated crashes reported.

[Kurt]

I wonder if the repeated corruption of the database is related to the fact that you are using an SSD drive.  This game is intensely database oriented, and involves a lot of data-writes.  Only Steve would know how many per time advance on a typical game, but I suspect you may be draining you drive's useful lifetime.  

Hmmm...is there anyone else present who is using an SSD drive with out problems?

Kurt

An interesting question.  Hopefully someone else uses an SSD as well and can comment.

I'd be interested in knowing.  I'm interested in computer equipment issues, for my job, and haven't had much experience with SSD drives.  

Kurt

[Octavian30]

The effect he's getting sounds to me like something I get from time to time but which I've never allowed to run to it's conclusion.
What I get is this:
I hit 30 days or whatever to advance the game and it just sits there with the cursor going round and round - ( I know the wait time gets longer and longer the further into the game you go but I'm not talking 20 seconds here)
this seems to be what he has ....

After this last for 2-3 minutes I call up the Task Manager and end process on Aurora.
When I then re-open the game there will be a task force with screwed orders - and endless repeat of 1-2 lines of orders. I fix this and game resumes fine...

My advice is next time the game takes overly long to advance - end process with the Task Manager and then check all your orders - one of them will be an endless repeat