The Game Audio Tutorial

Appendix B Troubleshooting and Optimization

Crashes

We can pretty much guarantee that at some point the game will crash. This will usually happen while you are building the level, and specifically during the lighting build phase. Always save your game before building. (See Appendix C: Building.)

If you’ve lost work, don’t despair. Unless you’ve turned it off, UDK will have auto-saved a backup level. These are found at C:\UDK\UDK-2010-08\UDKGame\Autosaves. You won’t be able to open the UEDPIE versions, but the other ones should mean you haven’t lost too much.

Version Control

If you find yourself working on a commercial game you’ll have to quickly get used to the idea of version control. Obviously in a multimillion Pound/Dollar business you cannot ...