Save file misery

[Penelope_Grey]

I have been the vitim of yet another save file tradgedy.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v324/Spider-Hulk/Penny/WTF.jpg

When I load the game, that happens, I end up over 500 meters deep. Why is my VII being sent on a one way ticket to the bottom?

Is my game now incapable of saving properly, must I start my 11th patrol over again!? I have had enough now, I am going to use Commander and set myself as being in home base automatically rather than Travel from Vigo back to Kiel.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Once is unfortunate, twice is just plain aggrivating.

Sorry for that fellow commanders. I needed to get that off my chest, and with being 500m deep there was no way I could bounce the watch officers head off the Uzo this time.

[banshee555]

Thats very strange,i have never had it happen to me.on the other hand at least you can avoid those depth chargers at 500m lol:lol:

[melnibonian]

Did you saved the game while submerged? If you did then there is a chance your save game is messed up. I would suggest trying to load it up again or load an earlier save (if you have one) where you saved on the surface. If any of these doesn't work I'm affraid you will have to start the patrol from port again.

[bigboywooly]

Do you use SH3 weather ?

[leeclose]

Ive had it once when i saved submerged but i only got bounced to 300 mtrs i mangaed to recover just in time:down:

[azn_132]

Ive had it once when i saved submerged but i only got bounced to 300 mtrs i mangaed to recover just in time:down:

Did u keep blowin ballast alot?

[Penelope_Grey]

Do you use SH3 weather ?

Yes I do, because the weather I have had conventionally has been rubbish!

[bigboywooly]

I do believe the crash dive of death has been linked to SH3 weather
:up:

[leeclose]

Did u keep blowin ballast alot? yup i kept blowing ballast like hell and hit full ahead crossed my fingers toes and anything else that i could.:up:

[badkarma]

Possible fix?..... http://www.subsim.com:80/radioroom/showpost.php?p=380113&postcount=39

[Corsair]

Must happen on some configs only then, have used several versions of SH3 Weather with several mods and never lost a save, be it on surface, submerged, with or without ships around...

[azn_132]

Did u keep blowin ballast alot? yup i kept blowing ballast like hell and hit full ahead crossed my fingers toes and anything else that i could.:up:

But blowin ballast didnt work for me. I get crushed always when it does that.

[leeclose]

Yup remember below a certain depth physics take over hence the expression crush depth the weight of the water over comes the weight of the air in your tanks etc theres an article some where on the net on it. If i find it i'll post it for ya it even gives you the proper math and physics etc:up:

[Penelope_Grey]

Well I reloaded patrol 9, and well, I had just enough fuel to get back to Kiel and no more. I decided not to dock at Vigo for resupply after all. I took the Channel and boy was it hazardous! I was lucky to make it, in fact I am surprised I did! I think this calls for a patrol report!

So what can I do to stop this crash dive happening again?

One other thing, when I went to external view, that was all screwy as well from the water's surface up!

[leeclose]

I would try and not save while submerged that should help.:up:

[The Munster]

Well I reloaded patrol 9, and well, I had just enough fuel to get back to Kiel and no more. I decided not to dock at Vigo for resupply after all. I took the Channel and boy was it hazardous! I was lucky to make it, in fact I am surprised I did! I think this calls for a patrol report!

So what can I do to stop this crash dive happening again?

One other thing, when I went to external view, that was all screwy as well from the water's surface up!

Hi, did you take a screenshot of the external view ?

[Penelope_Grey]

Sadly no! :(

I wish I had now! It could have helped a lot.

[leeclose]

Yup could have helped oh well.:ping:

[bigboywooly]

Possible fix?..... http://www.subsim.com:80/radioroom/showpost.php?p=380113&postcount=39

Yep that could indeed be the fix

Nice one :up:
Forgot about that

[leeclose]

Yup that looks like that could sort it.:up:

[Penelope_Grey]

How does it sort it, what do I do with it to fix ti?

[Jimbuna]

Possible fix?..... http://www.subsim.com:80/radioroom/showpost.php?p=380113&postcount=39

:roll: :up:

[leeclose]

It worked for me:up:

[badkarma]

How does it sort it, what do I do with it to fix ti?

I've not done it, but reading the thread, if you find it happening again open these files that are in SilentHunterIII/data/Campaigns/Campaign folder,

Campaign_LND.mis
Campaign_RND.mis
Campaign_SCR.mis

and change the line in the top section of settings which is marked [Mission]
that has WindSpeed=0 (which is hopefully what is causing the problem) to something else, ie WindSpeed=1.000000

[leeclose]

Here we are 2 years down the line and were still tweaking the hell outa 3 and 4 gets released in 2 weeks man i think ubi should have focused on either another patch or a patch and a official add on for 3. Becouse there is a whole bunch of things i would love to see implemented in 3 oh well wishfull thinking:hmm:

[Penelope_Grey]

Ok thanks for that guys, I was beginning to think nobody knew what to do or something! Because I didnt know what to do either. I still ain't 100% sure too.

[leeclose]

Thats half the fun Grey SWAG aka Scientific Wild Arse Guess:up: gets me thru the day.

[Faamecanic]

Just had the EXACT same thing happen with me. I just jumped a task force (using GWX mod) and sank a Fiji and Illustrious class carrier... got to my patrol grid and saved game (on surface). And I use SH3 commander and SH3 weather.

Re-load game, and dive of death. Blowing ballast does nothing.... hope that fix works as this was a GREAT first patrol with GWX....DAMN!

[fredbass]

So if I understand correctly, the latest version of SH3weather has this problem fixed already, does it not? ,because this problem/fix was posted b4 the latest release.

[Faamecanic]

I hope so.... the fix in the linked thread fixed my problem. I still need to DL the new SH3weather....

[robbo180265]

Ok it's happened to me now:damn:

This bl##dy game and it's bl##dy bugs:damn:

I understand what I have to do, but what programme do I need to open the files so that I can edit them? Windows doesn't recognise them.

[robbo180265]

Bump!

[Faamecanic]

A dialoge box should come up when you try and open the file (double click on it) so you can select the program with which to open the file with. You should be able to tell Windows to open with notepad or Wordpad at that point....

[leeclose]

I use wordpad it tends to work well and makes them easy to read mate:up:

[robbo180265]

Thanks guys. Didn't realise it was that simple:oops:

At work now, but I'll get right on to it when I get home.

Once again thanks for the help

[leeclose]

Well were all here to help and if we dont thats becouse were drunk/asleep or both:up:

[Meridian]

On a similar note. I had the same thing happen a few days ago before I saw this fix.

I'm using GWX 1.02 and SH3 Commander. After the dive of death I had a CTD. When I reloaded the game it didn't show any of my previous save games, they all totally vanished.

Does anybody know a way to recover from this, or what caused the saves to disappear. I checked the Saves in the Career folder and the files are still there, they just won't show up in game.

[robbo180265]

That's really weird. Have you tried re-editing the files as detailed above to see if they re-appear?

[Meridian]

No, I started a new career before I saw this thread. I also found another possible fix for it in case it happens again, but I hope not.

[robbo180265]

No, I started a new career before I saw this thread. I also found another possible fix for it in case it happens again, but I hope not.

Just incase it happens again for me - what was the other fix?

[Meridian]

Hi,

The other fix I was referring to was the loss of saves, not the zero wind bug.

With the loss of save games apparently renaming your sub commander in the save folder fixes it.

[robbo180265]

That's ok - still quite handy to know.

Cheers mate:up: