Tell you what then mark bonamer, when you go to do FotRSU again, we'll have you do MultiSH4 and put it in its own SH4 game folder, and its own Save folder, and see how you make out. The Balao should have done fine for you, even without missions, it should have let you leave Mare Island on November 11th, 1942, with an assignment to patrol the East China Sea, somewhere between Formosa and Okinawa, then return to Pearl Harbor. All told, it would be February before you returned to Pearl, and you wouldn't have been back out for a 2nd patrol in the boat until after March 1st, 1943. Similar with the Gato, which doesn't have the same issue, since it has the same mission assignments as the Tambor / Gar boats, so there should not have been issues there....
So, did you CTD, did you get retired, or did the game just hang, and you went to a black screen? In other words, what were the issues with going on patrol? How much of the troubles you had were before having other mods in FotRSU? But you don't recall looking at your renown score prior to, or after getting the Balao? Also, each start in FotRSU should assign you renown, even if we leave it out of the CareerStart 'definitions', the game has a minimum of 500 renown points when you start a new career... Sorry 'bout all of the questions.
