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Can't end patrol

I have just finished my 8th patrol and for some reason when i return to port i can only refit or postpone. No option for end patrol is available. I have completed objective and used all my torps with good results in tonnage. I can't figure it out. Has anyone else had this problem?

"...I have just finished my 8th patrol and for some reason when i return to port i can only refit or postpone..."

Why stop at 8? Looks like Command sees you as an asset.
-Pv-

Can't end patrol

I don't want to end career just this patrol. I thought maybe base had changed but there is no radio message saying that it has.

What base are you returning to and the date?
-Pv-

Too much time for Bugzilla:

I'm reporting some sort of bug or failure that has me quite upset! A few times now when into a career patrol I'm sinking a ship or looking at a aircraft and BANG ZOOM I get a black screen and a microsoft error message. This has also happened when coming back from a long excellent patrol...coming out of the warp speed and then wammo...again black screen and microsoft error message. It really pisses me off to loose a great patrol and wasted time of up to 4 hours and more for nothing. Most of the known issues with SH4 I do not have, with the exception of lagging graphics when ever I hit the message button which seems to flash all the time with meaningless information. I have a new graphics card Radeon X 1650 and 2 gigs memory/ram. I should not have too much trouble with this game but the above problems have made me put it on the shelf! Hopefully, something can be done to save this game as it has has many markings of an excellent game. SH3 runs great on my machine...but maybe that's because of all the great modders who have made this series the best ever! Until I can see some honest progress it
will stay on the shelf. Oh, sorry bugzilla guys but I did not feel like going through a log/in procedure with e-mails etc...so I just posted this one this way.

Mahalo, and Aloha for now!
Oh, and what's with the crew promotions...not sure how they work...because they don't work like SH3!! Haven't mutch of a clue as how promotions, medals etc really work!

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Originally Posted by Silverfox18

Be sure you have trued this: reinstall SH4 and then patch it with 1.1, without playing. Be sure not to play your saved games, at least not right away. After you establish the game is not CTD, then try your luck with the 1.0 saves.

Another reversed-texture bug. This time it was found in the S-42's control room.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...-S-42Gauge.jpg

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Originally Posted by -Pv-

What base are you returning to and the date?
-Pv-

Brisbane april 1943

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

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Originally Posted by Silverfox18

Neal, I have tried this but with no success. For the moment I am getting around the ctd's by saving regularly. I really hope patch 1.2 fixes this,as otherwise I am having a blast in career mode.

Regards

Just spotted a post by Ducimus on the FTT mod thread about all radar ceasing to function in career mode after primary objective is acheived. This is a fairly major bug, and I have just experienced the same in my current career. The radar can still be switched on and off, but shortly after primary objective acheived you lose all radar reports.(actually most, not all radar reports)

Regards

Hmm heres another wee graphical glitch when i use the guns on my gar glass and i mean my AA guns get this weird clipping error where you can not see the gun sights from certain angle piccie below its really annoying if ya want to take on a plane on your own basically the bathtub that sorrounds the aa gun stops you rom seeing what your shooting.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...-4-2007_22.jpg

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Originally Posted by -Pv-

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Watch for bulkhead damage in the crew message text box. You might have to scroll back to see it. I know... I'm missing the whole point. Oh well. I gave it my best shot. If the game is bugged for you, 'tis bugged. We'll see what 1.2 does and all this verbiage might all be for nothing.
-Pv-

Actually, that's how I knew that I had decoy launcher and deck gun damage, by reading the text box. No sign, I repeat, no sign of bulkhead damage anywhere within the game. Yes, you gave it your best shot. :) Sorry you don't want to believe us on this one. It's not just "bugged for me" if you get this to happen I'll be curious to see what your opinion is then... Obviously, its not easy to just get damage to these two components and nothing else whenever you want. But I hope that you are able to, then report back. Okay?

i kept getting the crash to desktop after about half hours worth of play, i uninstalled the game, reinstalled it and played a few patrols without the patch, it ran smooth without the ctd, i then applied the patch and started a new game, no ctd, maybe this will only work for me but it may be worth a go if you get ctd a lot,

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Originally Posted by Seapup

I've posted this problem already elsewhere and after reading other threads I've come to the conclusion that it's related to the anti piracy features of the software and I will have to wait to see if the problem is resolved in an update. Here's the situation:
The program installed and updated successfully and then ran great for a few hours without any problem. I finished the gunnery school and cruised around with great graphics, frame rates, and all features seemed to work. The next morning it would not load from the disk. I re-installed the disk and the update over five times during the next couple of days and the most I got out of it was a spinning disk and a message saying it couldn't authenticate disk within time limits.
It won't load from the icon in the games file or the SH4 startup menu. It will reinstall from the disk so I know it's not my drive. I want to make it clear that this is a legal program and that I have never in my life copied a program or attempted to do so. My system specs exceed all levels of play for this game as verified by Ubi's own site. Here is my system: Purchased in January, Gateway Dual Proc CPU 6300@ 1,86 GHZ, CPU speed rated 4.9GHZ, RAM 2 GB, VISTA, Nvidia 7900 GS w/ 256 MB Video Ram, Current drivers, Replaced power supply in CPU with Antec 650 watt Trio (from 350 watt) to cool vid card.
Bottom line ... it worked before but now it doesn't even load. This should be a priority for a future upgrade. Unless anyone can tell me what to do I'm stuck. It's really frustrating.

I don't know if anyone else had this specific problem but there seem to be several people having DVD drive problems possibly related to the disk. I finally solved the problem and have the solution ... at least on my system. After successfully playing the game I closed it down and then, thinking I could improve the display I reset my computer from 1920 X 1200 to a lower setting. After that the program would not display. By hitting control/alt/delete and looking at processes I could see that SH4.exe was running but not displaying the program. After changing the display settings on my computer (not in the game) back to the one it had been installed under (1920 x 1200) it worked. BUT it only works if you go back to task mgr/processes and end SH4>exe. before re-starting the game. Apparently you have to keep the display settings that you originally installed the game under. I don't know if this is a bug but I've never had a program fail to load if I didn't change the display on my computer after the install. Anyway, I owe Ubi an apology for some things I said elsewhere about SH4 ... I was just frustrated. It's an incredible simulation!!! MY dad served on US submarines throughout WWII and Korea and it's a great representation of what they went through. Of course, for them it wasn't a game.

Aha well heres another crah out bug for the last few days every time i hit "k" to check my captains log game freezes solid as a block of ice and only way out is to ctrl-alt-del and end task at which point task manageer tells me sh4 is not responding. Any one else having this prob oh helps with m for messges as well.:nope: