Save game problems.. anyone else?
 

I have been struggling past most of the bugs that have been brought up so far, but it seems now that I cannot play from save games after 2 or 3 saves into a career.
I will go to load a save game thats say, mid-way into a patrol - game goes through normal loading screen and then crashes after the "please wait" message...

I reinstalled SH4 twice now, patched, defragged, thumped my fist on my desk alot.... I havent seen the issue elsewhere yet so im ready to belive its my system. anyone else out there having the same issue?

GTX 8800
ASUS Cammando motherboard
1 gig ram
win xp sp2

Thnx!

I've read of some more issues along those lines with saves not responding
part of the time. I don't think its your system so keep reading here at the
forums on any patches or fixes to help the problem. From my experience
with SH3, I don't recommend campaigns till the modders do their thing.

JIM

It wouldnt surprise me if there are many more hidden game protection systems than the couple the devs responded to.

I'm using the Disk (unfortunately), so I can only assume that my bugs are bugs, and there are a lot. Though I have heard of people with Nforce 3/4 boards getting false positives when it comes to protection due to the protection systems being unable to detect the controller properly on those boards, but this was a couple year back. I have no idea what its like now.

I had a crash during gameplay, and my saves would not reload from that mission. Though up until the crash they were loading fine. That is as close as I have got to your problem. I'm on my second boat now.

Im having the same bugs as everyone else. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=107766

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=109285
 

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/smartdark/post_new.gif 03-26-2007, 06:24 PM #2 Schlageter-JG26
1 - "Save Games have 50/50 functionality. They get worse if you've been in the game for a long few hours. Likewise, settings on your sub and enemy ships all are RESET when you load.... which means you are entering a totally different situation from the one you saved." http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/newr...ote=1&p=466169 Check it out

Yeah, I'm still having issues.

Some of my saves are for my modded versions of the game. Others are for bone stock settings and the problems persist.

One way "around" it has been to Log Out of XP and back in. Maybe it's something with the ram that causes it to crash out when I load on occasion?

Haven't found much rhyme or reason to it yet, otherwise. I don't mind the game crashing out occasionally... come on, I started out with Dos and Win 3.1 back in the day. But the whole POINT of a save game is to be able to return to the game in a previous state..... and while these put you in the same place at the same time, the setting or state of things is totally changed. That's a bummer.

I name my own saves.. No problems yet.

So do I.

Yeah saves work fine until deeper into the patrol. then NONE of my saves work. Looks like this has already been raised. yay for my computer.

This last one really kills any enjoyment I was squeezing out of this unfinished product... I hate being yet another one of THOSE posts...

but between there being NO FEAR in the game whatsover from escorts.. Japanese traffic so thick youd think they gave birth to tramp ships - not human babies - the whole range of bugs...im going to give up.
The user following Silent Hunter 3 had, I really wonder why this product was forced to the shelves so early... no matter when it was realeased it would have sold. and sold well. very disspointed so far and am really begining to question an industry that makes more globally than the movie industry. Im pretty sure all my movies ive payed to seen have been finished... bugs i understand in any PC release...but to be so unfinished.... do I go back to downloading ISO's? I would like to think not.

Thanks for the responses.

Same here, same here and it only started hitting me like yesterday. I have the game since last week, patched it to 1.01 and this savegame issue seemed not to be a problem for me until it started acting up yesterday. My game crashed to desktop mid patrol and I went to reload the savegame but lo and behold - CTD right after the "Please wait" screen disappeared.

This goes for every savegame connected to my career. I reinstalled the game, patched it again and started a new career .. eventually the game CTD's again during the patrol, and again I am unable to continue my career. I am unsure why this hasn't happened before because I DID experience several CTD's ever since running the game the first time, but now it has gotten pointless to play a career. As a message to Nubi Soft .. this is getting beyond rediculous.

Great btw .. we now have a nearly 100 % solution on how to screw up your career, it seems reproducable and in fact, unavoidable since for most players, the game DOES CTD on occasion. Lovely, just lovely ...

I haven't purchased SHIV yet, but from what I have read in this post and others I think I'll hold off until all the major bugs are sorted. Save game bugs are a big issue as far as I am concerned especially because I don't always get a lot of time to play my sub sims and save regularly.

Nemo

Ok I've been playing with this a little and there are two issues Ive found.

1) Saved games made on the return trip after completing the main objective usually results in a save game failing to load. Though saves before completing the main objective load fine.

2) Saving while submerged can cause lots of funny stuff to happen. Including damage to equipment and resetting of the nearby patrols.

This is strange,all the problems everyone is haveing. Haven't had any ctd.
When I installed it didn't ask for cd key . I later put in patch. All my saves work so while i'm puzzled by everyone's problems i'm pleased I don't.
Good Luck All.

I remember having similar problems with SH3. What seemed to cause it for me was that I used to overwrite my existing savegames. Once I started using separate savegames, the CTD's were gone.

Maybe it works the same in SH4.

Same here also, i posted in another thread so ill just copy paste what i said...


July 1942, USS DRUM


Headed from pearl to patrol for enemy shipping of the coast of phily islands...
About 2000nms spotted a huge task force on radar, directly in font of me coming down from the north. I changed course to intercept, after about 5min @ 128 TC ships were sighted... I then went to perscope depth due in part that it was in the middle of the day and i would have been easily sighted. I Raised my scope, and sighted 3 Carriers escorted by 2 BBS, 2 hvy Crusiers, and around 5 DDs.

I then lowered scope, set up a perfect waypoint to line up forward topredo tubes on the first carrier, waited...raised scope... perfect shot @ 1400yrds.. fired a spread of 3...lower scope turned @ flank to the left... (destroyers were out of postion cause i ran silent to get through thier shield). After about 3-5mni the first carrier capsized and sank. At this point the 2nd carrier was in my sights... fired about the same range, fast speed on the torpedos, all 3 hit..sank just like the first.. Tonnage now @ 50k+. At this point i have a perfect stern shot lined up on one of the bbs @ 600yrds... fired all 4 rears... a couple of seconds the ship explodes due to one dentonating its mag.

At this time i have only one torp that just was finished loading in the forward torpedo room, and the last carrier comes into view @ 800yrds... i fire, fast settings and prey it will at lest slow him down....the torpedo hits... he kept moving @ 10kts.

I wait for the 2nd forward tube to load...i notice he is starting to list to the starboard side... I fire again...a couple of seconds after i fire the ship starts to capsize, the 2nd torpedo hits the flgiht deck...and blows off a zero...... over 100k tons now... i have one more torpedo to go before am goin to have difficulty with escorts.... one hvy crusier comes into view... i fire.. crash dive.. i pray... I hear an explosion...yes! i thought i got him. I got to external view and see whats left of teh burning haulk.

Not believeing my luck and success of this attack i quickly save the game...

Well to make a long sotry short, i went deep and silent TC alittle (32-128)
TO get some distance... with no warning or anything.. am dead.

So i reload... game loads... No ships in external view, but they r showing up in navigation... and some how i have massive damage, i flood, i sink i die....

I restart the computer hopeing it was just a random occurance.

Load SH4 back up and load save game, CTD opon the please wait screen...

My heart sinks, I close sh4
I put in the closet...:cry:

I had 0 problems w/ my saves until my 2nd carreer 5th patrol....