Cannot load a Saved Game.
 

I Have the dvd version patched to 1.4b and GWX with the december patch.

When ever I save my game and reload it, it gets to the command room. Then i see "Hull Damaged" and then it gives me the option to abandon career. What he hell is wrong. I have ripped the game and fished through the regiestry then reinstalled fresh TWICE and it keeps doing it.

Are there any other ships around or are you close to land? If so that could be the problem, also being submerged and saving could be the issue.

Ni i am out in the middle of the atlantic. Unless sunken ships are a factor then yes.... there are quite a few of them.

Never heard of sunken ones messing stuff up.

NM, i found a ship close by. Know anyway to fix this. I manages to bring down the rodney too.

I don't think so, a previously saved game may be your only option. If you sink a vessel in shallow water, sometimes the game still process it to be "sinking" so it never disappears, even if your 1000 km's away.

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i had the same problem in my first patrol....i was young and innocent back then and using this unethical "pizza trainer" which made my u-boat invulnerable.:oops::oops::oops:..problem is that the hit points of a U-boat are about 300...when in the game, no matter what amount of damage you receive the hull integrity stays at 100%.
When you save and load the game though, the trainer cannot go back and fix the damage it had patched up before...so if you had received more than 300 hit points of damage, the game will load, take you to the proper screens for a few seconds and then unexpectedly "realise" that the damage on the hull should be more than 100% and finish the game giving you the abandon career option.:damn:
This also explains why there is no other damamge or casualties....

moral of the story is:
if you gonna cheat do it at 1 go

Was the save location you are trying to load a submerged save? Crash Dive of Doom???
Reload previous save or start patrol again.

Are you trying to use a save file from a previous campaign/version? 'cos you can't.

Did you use SH3Cmdr at all? If so, did you rollback before uninstalling/reinstalling SH3?

So many things.......the last resort will be to remove any SH3 related files from your PC and start again, when I say related I mean anything. Cmdr, SH3Gen, Sh3 Weather, SH3 Save files etc......get rid of the lot so it's like SH3 never existed.

SH3 is pretty finicky when it comes to saving. Some people have problems, others not so much, but here are the general rules to follow when saving:

Save when surfaced only
Don't save until 50k from port
Don't save near convoys

So basically just try to be clear of everything and anything, while surfaced, b4 you save, just to be on the safe side.

Had the game a few days, I've had both saves (first patrol each) disappear from the game :x


SH3 is pretty finicky when it comes to saving. Some people have problems, others not so much, but here are the general rules to follow when saving:

Save when surfaced only
Don't save until 50k from port
Don't save near convoys

So basically just try to be clear of everything and anything, while surfaced, b4 you save, just to be on the safe side.

Basically you're saying unless I do a full patrol I run the risk of losing my saves? This is a pretty awful bug.

go into \SH3\data\cfg\Careers\your_career\
open Careers.cfg & Careers_0.cfg somewere in the bottom check line "Finished=false" , must be "false", not "true" , then check Patrols.cfg & Patrols_0.cfg , for your last patrol, the line "HullIntegrity=100.000000" , must be "100.000000" , not "0.000000" works fine.

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Have only lost a few saves.

It's a big ocean, I think you will be ok to safely save your game. That's until you get further into the game and either have planes bombing the crap out of you, or DDs deptcharging your hull straight to hell:rock:

By the way have fun:D

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