So sad, after the first season was over and I completed the transfers section going into season 2, the game crashed. It will not load. I was enjoying the game so much, I play and support all of the games by Wolverine Studios. I was about to recommend this game to my friends, claiming this to be the best college basketball game ever made. Then unfortunately the crash happened. How does this happen? How are things like this not tested and fixed prior to release? I'm just very sad, disappointed, devastated that I can not continue because the game was so good. I spent an entire day playing just one season, spending hours scouting, setting up strategies, depth charts, rotations, looking at stats, recruiting. The AI simulation and the match engine on this game are great, I was blown away by how realistic and accurate and most importantly - fun everything in the game was.

Sorry to hear that you had that crash. I've run many seasons with CB2018 without that happening so am not sure why you encountered the problem.

My suggestion is to load the backup of your last successful save for that association. You can get to that by clicking on Restore Association Backup on the initial page that loads when you log into DDSCB2018. You can also get to it by going to the Backup folder within the Saves folder in the DDSCB2018 folder on your computer's C drive and clicking on the .cbb file for the association you want.

In the future, I recommend you set up within Options to have the game automatically save your association at the end of each month and also manually save more frequently as you complete important actions within your association. Saves don't take too long and protect you in the event that something goes awry.

Also, be sure to not to be doing other things on your computer when the game is doing weekly actions or saves (not saying you were doing that when the crash occurred, but just providing a suggestion for you in the future).

And if you have an Unhandled Exception occur, copy what the message says and send that along with what you were doing at the time plus the game files to support@wolverinestudios.com so Gary can determine what went wrong and fix it for you, If he can, or fix the game if there is an actual issue occurring within the game program.

Hope you can get back to where you were by going to the last successful save. If not, create a new association and try again. As I said, what happened to you hasn't been happening to me or others who tested the game, so your next effort will likely be successful.

Brode wrote: How does this happen? How are things like this not tested and fixed prior to release? .

although i can understand your disappointment, there is not a single piece of software or game on the planet that is 100% free of bugs. too many unique factors for any testing team to catch absolutely everything, even the big companies. hope you and your friends don’t give up on the game based on one issue, you will miss out on a fun college basketball experience. luckily this must be an isolated issue since others would be reporting it much more if something that happened all the time.

pointguard provided the best advice to try and restore one of the backups and make sure to send your bad file and error message to gary so he can correct. if he can see it, he’ll fix it.

Thank you for the fast replies and the suggestion. It worked! I just did the load backup save from the main menu. I didn't know that option was there. I was just very frustrated earlier after I thought I'd lost everything. Normally I wouldn't care much in this type of game and just restart especially only after one year. That should tell you how good I think this game is. I was already so attached to my coach character, my players, the assistants, I was even following other teams and conferences to see how they were doing. Sorry for my bad grammar I've been up for a long time. My sleep schedule is messed up because I had ankle surgery and I'm on really strong pain meds. But thank you again for the response

Hooray! Glad you got your association back up and running and can continue developing YOUR team.