SH5, lost any save games recently?

[Coldcall]

I find this more annoying than any bugs in the actual game. Yesterday i set aside 3 hours to play SH5 campaign, and then at the end of the session i get that dreaded "failed to synchronise" message. However it also says that the save games wont be lost and will be synchronised later.
So later on i check back and fire up SH5 once more to see what saves have been actually saved. They are complete liars at UBISOFT - all yesterdays saves are now miraculaously dissaapeared like something out of George Orwells "down memory hole."

So thats like 3 hours of my campaign just deleted, gone, like it never happened at all.

I can live with the bugs as they are being ironed out by the great modders, and i can live with the money having been spent on the game, as the potential is all there, but there is something really sickening about save games being lost like that. It totally demotivates one from playing on further because who is to say it wont happen again.

You know if Ubi just released a goddam patch to release the game from this DRM madness they would redeem themselves to some degree, but every day that they persist in this broken and totally unequitable condition to playing a game they are heading for serious consumer backlash.

Luckily for me SH series is the only Ubi game i like so i wont be buying any of their other games, but they must be doing themselves some serious financial damage because of their insitence of this type of DRM.

[jwilliams]

Try turning save sync's off. I have and havent lost any saves yet. i have only had the game for two days tho.

[Coldcall]

Try turning save sync's off. I have and havent lost any saves yet. i have only had the game for two days tho.

How do you do that?

[Turm]

On the launcher window, when you're being logged in (and later see "5 seconds until game launch"), you need to click on the small cog/gear icon in the top right.

I think you'll still see the "synchronising save games" message once you get to the SH5 main menu, but it should be turned off.

[Coldcall]

On the launcher window, when you're being logged in (and later see "5 seconds until game launch"), you need to click on the small cog/gear icon in the top right.

I think you'll still see the "synchronising save games" message once you get to the SH5 main menu, but it should be turned off.

Thanks! Gosh i feel really dumb now :-)

[Turm]

No need to feel dumb! After all, it's not in an obvious place, nor is it labelled in any way. You can only find it by pure curiosity or chance! :roll:

To me, it looked like a "settings" button, since that's what such a gear icon normally would be. But no, to my surprise it controls the save game synch. Of course, how silly of me.

[SabreHawk]

Have not lost a single save yet, and even got that message once yesterday after exiting about the save not being saved online appearing in the launcher.
After exiting you know how the launcher will still appear in the task bar for a bit, then close out? Well it didnt that time so I clicked on it and it maximized and thats when I saw the message in red saying the save was not saved online but that it would load up next time I run SH5 and sure enough it did and all was fine.

Ya know, I dont know what it is but I have experienced none of the so called bugs and online failures reported here in the week I've had this sim.
Well except for once, and that was a problem with my own system, not of the sim or UBI's servers or their function in any way.

I suspect that there are a lot of "unclean" computers out there that are the root of many problems. I know from experience in the past that my system was in a state once where nothing worked right for long and had so much errors and glitches and things that I nearly took it one day and tossed it out the window.
Then I rebuilt it with a nice fresh HD, and a clean system and all has been well for a very long time as I learned my lesson well, and do what I must to keep it clean and healthy. And, I dont screw with things I dont understand enough about to even look at it much less play around with it.:yep:

[Turm]

Have not lost a single save yet, and even got that message once yesterday after exiting about the save not being saved online appearing in the launcher.
After exiting you know how the launcher will still appear in the task bar for a bit, then close out? Well it didnt that time so I clicked on it and it maximized and thats when I saw the message in red saying the save was not saved online but that it would load up next time I run SH5 and sure enough it did and all was fine.

I would have been happy to say that my experience was the same - I've seen the "saves not synchronised" message, and had no trouble ... until now.

So, last night (Sun 14th), I played for quite a few hours up until 20:00 GMT when the server dropped and I had a crash to desktop.

My last autosave was made at 19:45.

After 20 minutes the servers were back I was able to launch the game again. Save games all synched as normal. I went into "Load game" on the main menu, saw my last save was there from 19:45, then quit the game and decided to carry on today.

I just loaded the game, and the last save present is from 17:50, 2 hours before! In those lost 2 hours had I sunk 8 ships from a convoy!! :damn:

I don't quite understand the save game structure. Anybody figured it out yet? If I look in this folder:

My Docs\SH5\data\cfg\SaveGames

I see lots of folders, containing all the files required by a save game, the last one has a creation time of 17:50. All are about 7-8MB in size. Okay.

But in the folder:

My Docs\SH5\data\cfg\RichSavedGames

I see individual files of 9KB each, the last two being labelled:

2010-03-14-17-50-35.sh5save
2010-03-14-19-45-30.sh5save

So I have some remnant of my last save there, even if the main save folder for 19:45 has vanished. Given the small size, these must be the files that synchronise with UBI? No way is it synchronising the large folders since my connection is slow and it would take forever to upload 7MB each time I quit the game.

So, that being said, I can't understand why my 19:45 save game is lost now I have launched the game. When I launched it last night at 20:20, after being dropped out of the game due to the latest server attack, it was still present and correct!

Time to switch off the damn synchronisation. I took the usual attitude of "I will be fine, it won't affect me", but now I regret it :nope:

Good thing I make my own manual saves from time to time and don't rely on the autosave, else I'd be all the way back at base!!!

[iowa101]

I don't know if it's the same sort of issue but I just lost my entire campaign save, even the auto saves. Nothing is left. I've been playing for three days straight with sleep of course, but I was playing yesterday and all of a sudden the game kept throwing back 'Save game failed'.

I now have to start all over again, having just raided scarpa flow sinking eight ships including two battleships, 2 destroyers a troop ship and merchants.

Great.....

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi Guys
Run Uplay in offline mode.
Post #69 How To Play Silent Hunter 5 Offline! (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2202375&postcount=69)
You will get the option to use your own saved games or from the Cloud.
Select your own saved games.
You will always see the synchronizing box on start up.
Always make a manual game save when finishing your gaming session.
Do not use automatic game saves to load your games as these can be corrupted.
Peter

[pcgameman]

Hi Guys
Run Uplay in offline mode.
Post #69 How To Play Silent Hunter 5 Offline! (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2202375&postcount=69)
You will get the option to use your own saved games or from the Cloud.
Select your own saved games.
You will always see the synchronizing box on start up.
Always make a manual game save when finishing your gaming session.
Do not use automatic game saves to load your games as these can be corrupted.
Peter

@THEBERBSTER : Hi, I did what you suggested but All I get is the usual message in the synchronizing box.

I never get the option to use my saved games or from the cloud. How can I get this option pls?

Thanks in advance

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi Coldcall
Run Uplay in offline mode.
Post #69 How To Play Silent Hunter 5 Offline! (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2202375&postcount=69)
Peter

[Von Rono]

Hi,


Can I set auto save off ?
I have uplay version + TWoS....


"you need to click on the small cog/gear icon in the top right."


I don t see that thing anywhere, when I logget in or hit sh5 icon in desktop