Load game crash bug

[buglepong]

Hi everyone,

I've been running GWX 2.1 ok for some time now with OLC Special environment (part 1) + GUI 1.2.3.

All of a sudden I am getting all bugged saved games. They will load to completion until I can almost see the GUI and submarine interior then the game crashes. This has happened before on occasion but now I am getting it without fail; my last 5 saved games have failed. It seems I can only load my career successfully when I am in port (crashes only during patrol).

I can't think of anything that might be causing it. I am just wondering if other people also experience this bug? Is there a fix of some kind?

edit: make that 5 out of 6 last saved games. one of them (during patrol) managed to work

[Phaedrus]

The only time I get loaded game crashes is when I've changed something through JGSME before starting up the saved game.


Are you switching skins in between saved games?


Thats the only thing I can think of.

[predavolk]

There's a ton of info out there about the load game bug. One thing to remember is that the "corruption" carries on to future saves IME. So if saves 1-3 are fine, then save 4 gets corrupted (by saving too close to a ship, the shore, or some other reason), then saves 5-8 will also be corrupted, even if they are saved in "safe" locations. So it's quite possible that one initial bad save corrupted the rest of your saves.

If you're going out on 6 patrols, and get crashed games on 5 of them, that's hard luck!

[danlisa]

Are you continuing a career from GWX 2.0? Or did you start fresh?

[Jimbuna]

It's either as Dan states or perhaps you've recently added a 3rd party mod.

List everything you've installed.

[SNAKE1937]

Only save when on the surface. If I see that time (realtime) will not let me get into and out of a combat situation I save on the surface using " on patrol" in my case.
I can then come back the next time I play and get into and out on the surface again to save again.

If you can not save on the surface ( without any other input from surrounding ships or land) then use the "FALSE SAVE" method. ( I wrote this up last year ).

Save a few saves after the one you want such as " vvv" , "www" , "xxx" , "yyy" , and "zzz". These are close enough to where in time you want to be so try to start "zzz" --- if it works all is fine if not go to "yyy" . In a submerged battle with lots of ships it may take one or two false saves restarts to get back up a running.

During the load time have a beer.

Hope this helps SNAKE1937

[Kaleun Cook]

They will load to completion until I can almost see the GUI and submarine interior then the game crashes.

Same here, although saved on surface in the Irish Sea. Probably too close to the shore. Is there a way to rescue such a savegame?