Crashing ball

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Sadman00

FNG / Fresh Meat
Oct 26, 2010
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Steam has unlocked the game, but I cannot play it.

I've noticed that the game didn't saved my resolution changes, so I guessed that The Ball works like others Unreal Engine 3.0 titles such as Batman or Mass Effect 2: if you don't have your Documents folder in its original path it give problems (crash at first save).
So I moved back Documents directory in its original path (I usually have it in another partition).
Good, The Ball holds my graphics and controls changes.
Then I started a new game, but it crashes after loading, just like Batman or similar games when you play them with Documents in another folder.

The confirmation that could be a save issue comes from the Challenge mode: I've tried to start it, and I'm able to play it.

So, seems that the game crashes when it tries to write/read a save, but I really don't know what to do: Documents folder is already in its place, the game has created its own directories in My Games one.

If could help, I'm playing on a:
Q9550
Windows 7 64 bit
Gefoce GTX470 (ForceWare 260.52)

Please, help! :)
 

Zetsumei

FNG / Fresh Meat
Nov 22, 2005
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Falmouth UK
You could try to completely rename your saves folder and let steam verify the integrity of the game cache. That will let the game create a new folder, that hopefully should work.
 

Yoshiro

In Soviet Russia, Yoshiro is a cake
Staff member
Oct 10, 2005
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The game should now work in any language without crashing. The other languages had a bad .ini file. We are sorry we missed that.