[RM2K3] BAD BAD DATABASE

Okay, so I've been working on Dragon Quest + and I've hit a hard one. I guess it was my fault do to bad eventing that I forgot to take out when I first started the project in 2012 and the common event happened to activate. Now, that's not the bad part. When that happens, the game locks up and I'm like, no big deal I'll just do a end task like I've done in the past with troublesome windows. So, I open the game back up and the custom title screen, nothing... responds. The arrow keys don't respond, nothing. Now, transferring the hero to a different map isn't as laggy nor do the buttons act as bad. However, when I start from the custom title I can't progress. And running it in full screen I swear only goes at 1FPS. I know 2k3 is a bit laggier on Windows 8 in FS but this was worse than ever. I kid you not, it was running at 1FPS.

But get this, I had an old Database file for the game in a backup folder(it is useless now) but when I replace the current one with the older one, everything works just fine, but the common events that I've added since the backup are no more. Also, even when I do start in another room besides the custom title, I can see the pictures setting themselves up and the screen transitions (i.e "Fade Out") don't work, it just shows up. And yes, I have set the screen trans to the appropriate ones. And get this, every other game works like a charm. It has to be the database that got corrupted somehow. Not a map tree corruption by the lmt file, just a lbd issue.

Just to let you know, I 'm running this on Windows 8 in Compatibility mode and I even tried every other mode it offers. I had no problem running this in Wine but I had to upgrade my laptop to my new one for other reasons. AND, I wouldn't even be here if I had looked at my specs before I bought it and saw that there was no CD drive installe!O.o Heck, not even Wubi works so I can't really install Ubuntu or Zorin right now. sigh... can someone help? Or, is there any kind of fix for this or something that I may use to ensure it won't happen again?

Waste of a topic, patience is a virtue I guess. In short- it fixed itself... man I feels dumb.

author=PepsiOtaku
Just magically worked? I'm skeptical... but since I don't have Windows 8, I have no way of knowing for a while. Let me know if you run into something like this again.

Yeah, I'd been testing it all day and one try, it just snapped back. However, I had to copy over the old database manually because all of my common events were gone... I freakin' hate Windows 8.