Imersion killer to be cut off deep in a patrol :doh:

I dont understand this. Yea its annoying to lose your progress but how is loading a saved game "immersive" ?

I was sure it was my machine. Great. This really stinks. They need to get hopping on a dot patch if need be to solve some critical issues like this (meaning a 1.1.1 patch). Forget any new content, just squash the bugs ASAP.

tater

Interestingly enough, in my first career I managed to get to 7th patrol when the CTD occured after which I could not reload my savegame. I then reinstalled the game and began a new career where right in my first patrol the same thing happened.

Same problem here: loading career save=CTD (just into my 4th patrol). Re-installing didn't help. Pointless to play this game in this state. Bah.

This issue has been around from the SH3 days. Can't believe it hasn't still been addressed, but it can be minimized (actually eliminated in my experience) by the following practices:

- Don't save while submerged
- Don't save while close (say within 20km) to other vessels or to ports.
- Try to save under different filenames as much as possible.
- one poster elsewhere suggested saving as close to midnight as possible.

I know it would be nice to save just after sinking the Yamato, Mushashi and all the Kongos in one salvo, right before the escorts can mount their counterattack, but all I can suggest is what NOT to do in certain circumstances. That would be one of them.

If you look at the SH3 boards, you'll see this has been around for years, and the steps I've proposed have been gleaned from the bitter experiences of many, many others.

How many of you guys with reload crashes are using default filenames or overwriting existing ones? Any problems Vista Vs XP? How about systems specs? Running minimum as opposed to generous margins?

Saving within 10 minutes of a crew change is NOT a good idea (midnight) as your crew health gets reduced when you restore the game moments prior to the new crew going on duty (which happens between zero seconds after the hour and up to 11 minutes.)

I have saved in proximity to objects and submerged so I don't think those are the important issue in this particular problem.

The saves are in My Documents which can get corrupted when the user profile gets damaged. Anyone having trouble who has had a lot of crashes to blue screen or stop errors?

When you get these reload crashes, can you then reload an earlier save OK? Just the last one in your current campaign that norks?
-Pv-

I'm in mission 1, get CTD whenever I attempt to load any of my more recent saves (Win XP, name my own saves). I assumed it was because I saved while submerged, and even SHIII was sensitive to that sometimes.

I would go and test this, but for some reason I've picked up a German accent and I seem to be in the North Atlantic fighting the British while SHIV bakes a bit more.

I make my own mission names up. Still have this issue. Amazing that they elected to add, well, anything at all to the game with this issue outstanding.

I have not had any CTD with exception of the infamous 'A' key. All my saves load fine. What I do is name the save with what is happening at the time of save....like surfaced, stopped, enroute,....my games still load fine. I can not understand why yours would be any different than mine:hmm:. Try naming each save and see what happens.

Also, I go to the map screen and then save. Maybe you should try that???

Uhmmm....how else do you save a game to play later on?:hmm:

Very good tip (well, it can't hurt at least). I have always done that (over a year of SH3 included), and have never had a corrupted save, once I started following the advice above.

I do all of these things. I never save while in TC. I name my own saves. I do them from the map screen because frankly almost the entire game is played from the map screen.

Like I said, I am saving while submerged and that may be the reason.

Saved submerged was a bad bug in SH3. Since most of SH3 has carried over it sounds like the same deal. Save outside port, surfaced and away from ships:up:

How's this for coincidence? I'm wearing my spring jacket for the first time (hey it's Ottawa) and just five minutes ago while emptying my pocket I found a print out from last year with tips gathered from the SH3 boards on how to avoid bad savegames!

In addition to the others, here's a key one I'd forgotten about. Do not start a patrol unless all other career patrols are in port. Christ, play it safe and only use one career at a time.