cannot save any game....

[aurgolo]

Dear captains, a strange thing has happened to me.....im at my 9th patrol and my last saved game is a couple of days old......ok nothing special
2 days ago i loaded the last save and went on playing, then saved again....ok
yesterday i loaded again but the screen only showed me only the previous one and not the last save....
Ok, i tried with the previuos one save and back to port, as i thought that if ending the patrol i would have solved the problem, but...........again later on loading the screen only showed me only the same previous save one and not the back to port save....
Then i tried to load an old save when i was still in port and save again with a different name, but again when reloading the screen only showed the same old one and no trace of the new save..........

The conclusion is that i can only load that old save and cannot go for with the game...

Does anyone have an idea of what is it? I have installed patch 3 and TM 1.6 mod +TM patch + gfx pack



It sounds very strange to me........... never happened to me

[SteamWake]

Never heard of this one either.

I only keep 6 distinct saves. The two in / out base saves and 4 other saves that I roll through and overwright the oldest in turn.

Only things I can think of is maybe there is a cap on the number and size of saved games. Maybe clearing out some of your old saves will help.

Also... sounds silly but... is your disk full ?

[aurgolo]

Yes is very silly, i also thought that there is a cap in the max saves, but the question is: how to delete the old ones?

My hdisk should be fine with plenty of space, but i double check again and update u

ciao, tks

andrea

[SteamWake]

Yes is very silly, i also thought that there is a cap in the max saves, but the question is: how to delete the old ones?

My hdisk should be fine with plenty of space, but i double check again and update u

ciao, tks

andrea

You can delete them from the game interface I think its in the load game screen. Dont just delete them from the folder as it may wreck your installation.

[aurgolo]

unfortunately the load game screen does not allow to delete any save...... and from the folder is very risky as there is no logical sequence in the files, so i do not know which are to be deleted...........

[SteamWake]

unfortunately the load game screen does not allow to delete any save...... and from the folder is very risky as there is no logical sequence in the files, so i do not know which are to be deleted...........

Well its in there somewhere (delete saves) I know Ive used it.

[aurgolo]

sure that is not SH3?

I remeber that it is possible in SH3, never done in SH4

[PaulPosition]

It's there...

In the save game screen, not in the load game one... :)

[SteamWake]

It's there...

In the save game screen, not in the load game one... :)

Ah see makes perfect sense ! Kind of like the 'abandon carrier' when leaving the office :lol:

[aurgolo]

Very good, i have found it.........deleted some old saves, saved a new one, reloaded and all seems fine now.........

thank you guys, now we know that saves in SH4 are capped..........

thank you again, well done

andrea

[TDK1044]

How many saves did you have as a matter of interest?

[Digital_Trucker]

Do you happen to remember how many you had when it started giving the problem? It would be good to know what the cap is before we get to it.

Edit:TDK is less verbose and a faster typer, so he beat me to it:rotfl:

[aurgolo]

lots of saves, like 50-60 more or less...........there is also another point of interest, i use to save with progressive numebrs like 1, 2,3,4.....etc
It happened that after so many saves the game does not recognize anymore the saves in chronological order and now when i save with a number it reload an old save from and old patrol.........funny
From now on i am forced to save any game with a different name, like for example today's date and time or my name with a number......

nice to know.........

tks everybody for your help, good hunt

andrea

[TDK1044]

I use a total of 4 saves.

TDK1: 'in office' save after loading up the sub for the new mission
TDK2: start of new mission
TDK3: in mission
TDK4: in mission

Once my mission is under way, I overwrite TDK3 and TDK4 every five minutes until the mission is over. I did this with SH3 too. I've never had a corrupt save doing it this way. :D

[SteamWake]

Might be a good thing they put a cap in there. Some of the saves can get quite large.