Kovalchuk in the US team, problem and solutions

King Cobra · 05-13-2009, 04:26 PM

Since there seem to be something wrong with my post about Kovalchuk showing up in the US team, I get the message "Database Error" when I try to open it, I will post a new post with a description of the problem and the development, just in case someone else has encountered it.

It all started last Saturday when I was updating the national teams in NHL 08 using nhlview. All of a sudden, Russian Star Kovalchuk shows up in the ingame team roster for the US (not dressed) and when I try to access the player, the game crashes. But when I open nhlview, everything seems to be normal.

I had some backups and installed an older roster but the problem was there too! Obviously it was an old problem which I hadn't noticed until now.

However, I did find roster which was older than the previous one, installed that one and no Kovalchuk. So I spent some hours, re-editing some teams and there he is again, Kovalchuk in the US team!

I tried to make a change in the US roster=game crashes. Then I run BHImport, starts the game, try to switch some players in the US team (but not Kovalchuk) and this time it works. I play a game with the US team and it works.

I do some more changes with nhlview, starts the game again. This time Kovalchuk has dissapeared and been replaced by an empty space with one single letter whuch looks like an "Y".

I go back to nhlview to do some more changes. Previously I have discovered that when I start a new tournament and tries to access the rosters in that tournament, there's an error message for the player Doug Weight which says "attributes for the player isn't correct". I suspect that this may have something to do with the Kovalchuk problem and removes Doug Weight from the US team.

Then I start the game again and discovers that Kovalchuk has been replaced by another Russian player in the US team!

When I open nhlview, the error message is there for another US player.

So I transfer Doug Weight back to the US team, starts the game, deletes the tournament I had started and then I check the US team and yes, dear, old Kovalchuk is back in the roster.

But I can still play with the US team without any problem.

So I start a new tournament and choose the US team as "my team". Now Kovalchuk is gone and replaced in the roster by someone called "I.Yerts"!

However, I start the tournament and no problem playing with the US team. I do actually win the tournament too, beating Russia (of all teams) in the final. During the tournament, when I access the US team to make some changes, I discover that "I.Yerts" is gone.

But dear, old Kovalchuk is still in the original team roster (the one for friendship games).

However, I decide to start a new tournament, this time with the Czech team as my team. This time I can't access the US team but I can check the player statistics and no problem there. No problem to play against the US team either and neither Kovalchuk nor any other stranger, including the mysterious "I.Yerts" shows up in the US team during the tournament. Kovalchuk is there he should be, in the Russian team (he actually scores against my team in a game).

So obviously the "Kovalchuk problem" doesn't affect the game as such as long as I avoid to dress him if I play with the US team and he shows up in the team roster.

But isn't this very strange?

Is there anyone else who have encountered a similar problem in NHL 08 after editing some players?

DSgamby · 05-13-2009, 04:36 PM

delete the roster files and then reinstall the rosters.

make sure you have the addon tools in the main game folder and run BHImport afterwards

King Cobra · 05-13-2009, 04:47 PM

I did that in the beginning when I installed an older version of the file. As soon as I've edited some players, Kovalchuk's double did show up in the US team again.

Anyway, I don't think I will dabble with it now since the game obviously works and as long as Kovalchuk or any other mysterious player don't show up on ice with the US team or some other team.

DSgamby · 05-13-2009, 05:25 PM

did you load both the db.viv and exhibiton.exh files in NHL View?

King Cobra · 05-14-2009, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by DSgamby

did you load both the db.viv and exhibiton.exh files in NHL View?

Yes, I did. I always do. Honestly, I think it's impossible to open only one of those files, then a warning message will show up.

DSgamby · 05-14-2009, 11:06 AM

there is no warning message if you opened up just the db.viv

numerous of times including a few this season with the new NHL View, I had to tell users to load both files and they said that, that worked as the only loaded the db.viv file

King Cobra · 05-15-2009, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DSgamby

there is no warning message if you opened up just the db.viv

numerous of times including a few this season with the new NHL View, I had to tell users to load both files and they said that, that worked as the only loaded the db.viv file

You were right about the possibility to open only the db.viv file.

I did that and the funny thing is that it showed the original files before I start editing them in the first place, like the Polish team with all the fake names. It must have been more than a year since I rewrote the names of those players!

I also got some error mesages, a lot of them, like "Donald Audette (256) had an empty instance:7. This instance was removed."

What does that mean?

When I tried to close the program, I was asked if I wanted to save the changes.

Oh dear, never!

Then, when I tried again to close, by clicking the "no" button (because I didn't want to save anything) the program did freeze and I had to use Task Manager to close it.

Fortunnately, it didn't seem to have saved anything.

DSgamby · 05-15-2009, 04:23 PM

the error message is normal and it is fine