the corrupted saves debate has been going on like forever and i have my own ideas that since we can eliminate most common threads when it happens, it is as much related to whats going on in the game "combined" with your hardware.

marginal or semi marginal computers memory wise are 3 times more likely to have corrupted saves than those with 2gigs or more ram with a good cpu and a mid to upper level video card.

with my p4 and 1gig ram with a 7600gs video card i got corrupted saves all the time unless there was no AI activity in detectable range and i was surfaced at near stop and not withing 5 miles of land or shallow water. a shallow water save almost always gave me some immediate hull damage when it reloaded.

i upgraded to a quad core Q6600 with 8800gt video card and 2gigs ram and the only corrupted save i ever had since was once when saving in the middle of an ongoing battle inside of a large task force. but a shallow water save or saving while under water will still almost always gives me some immediate hull damage when it reloaded.

i believe the corruption is just running out of memory storage space which causes the lost data corruption.

LMAO :DL

But... but...

Phew. Had me going there.

i don't know how, but this bug never happened to me :D

Personally I vote for a standard "save" system. Sh4 wasn't too bad in its saving system. but also the idea of a continuous saving of the progresses is quite interesting..more realistic...but it can be frustrating.
We'll see...

say that after your PC crashes 3/4th of the way into your patrol. hours of your life down the tube. i save alot these days, because it's happened to many times.

It always pays to save periodically.....simply use the same name and it will overwrite the previous save, meaning a minimum of disc space being taken up.

Yup, i keep a save called "Current Mission", and periodically save to it. Usually after a battle, so i dont have to redo it if something goes kaput. Lately my PC has been acting up, and freezing randomly with a high pitch whine coming out of the speakers when playing certain games. Thought it was heat, but i checked and the CPU & GPU temps are fine while playing. go figure.