Gordo

Although it was recommended for W7 and not XP, maybe try installing it to your desktop (not simply moving the master file) versus your program files folder. Can't hurt to try.

What type of a game are you entering? Are you trying to use a newer custom stadium usually reserved for minor league stadiums? I'm sure Dennis can put you on the right track.

Wow...that's surprising that it's XP. And you sound like you know your way around your files. So your error is when the game FIRST/INITIALLY loads or when you try to go into a game to play?

sjbushido -- what's your operating system and to what location is the game installed?

And correct me if I'm wrong, Homer, but the more you mess with doing edits and CAPs within the game itself, the more you risk the entire SAV file becoming corrupt and unusable?

I thought the rule allowed a team to do that, but then they lose the DH?

I believe this is a shortcoming of the game or maybe that was the rule back in 2004. Either way, it doesn't seem doable.

I believe .SAV files are only editable within the game itself. I believe there was a modder here a while ago who did it, but there was never a mod put out for it that I know of and searching for threads on how to do this would be tough because of the short file name type.

Yes. You have to have the "short season projector" app or your game will typically get stuck on it trying to simulate a one game playoff.

I don't think this is a new one. If problems with injuries, suspensions and trades being on are going to happen in season. It would be right around then. If you have all of those off, it could be a face, stadium or uniform.

It seems you resolved playing on W8 and the problem is probably the rosters not being filled (24 to 25 players for each minor league team and 25 players per MLB team). I don't ever play full seasons and go into the next season, worry about draft, etc. So it seems clear that this is the problem for you. If you can sim an entire season (with everything turned off), then you can play an entire season (with everything turned off). The problem comes when the game programming has to start shifting players around as in trades, drafts, etc. You can either solve your problem now by going into the roster management area from your main screen, filling rosters from the FA pool to the above needed numbers/squad, saving and then loading that roster and then starting a new season/franchise. Otherwise, if you can use MVPedit, you can fill in the rosters from the FA pool within that program. If there are not enough players to go around or you don't want to use existing players to go into organizations where they shouldn't be, you can import fake players via the attached .met file (which is an MVPedit file for holding an entire team). This attached file holds 25 generic players at various positions with the last name of "Placeholder". You can import and assign duplicates of these players (that is, you can import this fake team as many times as you want to fill slots and then delete the leftovers in the FA pool if you want to). Your only other option is to wait and see if MVP15 will be a reality next year and if the rosters will be more filled. Good luck. Generic Team MVPedit.zip

Someone tell Jose Abreu to stop staring at me!! His eyes follow me wherever I go!

Man..... with jogar in it.... this is gonna be one great last hurrah!

fermin: do you have injuries and/or suspensions set to "on" ?

Are you on a laptop with an integrated vid card? That could be the culprit. If not, are you using a desktop and updated your graphics drivers? Sometimes, depending on the card and drivers, newer drivers can actually be less compatible with the game causing stutter or other anomalies.

That's a tough question because it can be determined as a situation is encountered, otherwise you'd never know. For example, if there is a cyberface on someone on a Single A or AA that would cause a crash, but you never use those teams, you may not have to worry about it. The best thing to do is check in here from time to time and see what people are finding.

The MVP edit tool is something you have to play with, but do a search for "MVPedit" and look at some recent threads. As far as the "data 7z" file, I'm assuming that it's a datafile.txt, which does not originally get installed by the game itself. Some guys here figured out that it can be extracted from another file and then modifications can be made within it. But not having it won't affect your game's stability. Look through this and similar threads for solutions as probably every possible situation has been discussed. Good luck.

How did you re-install? Somehow you must have kept the MVP13 mod. Is you desktop shortcut still pointing to the 13 mod and you think it should switch over to the 14 mod? What "05 data file" are you talking about? If it's the "datafile.txt", there isn't one of those native to 2005 original game.

My understanding is Patch 2 is all you need if you don't plan to play online; Patch 3 if you go online.

No not at all. Also, if you are playing on a laptop which has an integrated video card, I'm not sure what to tell you. Good luck.

This will happen if you're running the game in windowed mode and have one monitor. If not, maybe there is a setting in your video card control panel?

Well, don't run away on the rosters. I might be able to set up the MLB initial set for 2015 since it will only require moves and setting up lines and rotations, but I seriously doubt I'm going to do the level of tweaking that I did the last few years. So if that negates me from the project and puts you in helping with rosters, GRS34, then that's perfectly fine.

There shouldn't be any reason why you can't install a roster pack. As long as you have the cyberfaces to generally go along with it, you should be fine. Your other choice is to use the roster pack, but change every cyber face assignment to a generic (face nos. 901-915) Vertical sync in your video options must be ON.

I don't know a lot about what works best with W8, but did you try installing to your desktop? Also, did you try installing 2005 from your discs, adding only official patch #3 and just run that? Let us know.