Have you ever experienced the save game bug?
 

As this is a fairly hot topic at the moment, I thought it would be interesting to find out how many on the forum have had this bug.

Thanks for voting.

Nemo

Once. When the game just came out to be exact about 3months into the game i lost my whole career. I never had the bug again although now i dont play SH3 everynight like i use too.

Never had that bug

Two or three times at all perhaps.

So I'm at the very low end of the occasionally-fraction ;)

I don't even save anymore...followed all of the tips and tricks, and about 65% of the time, I get a botched save (days worth of lost gameplay). I just leave SH3 loaded until I finish my patrol. I have a fairly decent system, so I am able to multi task.

Happy Hunting,

Voyd

Lost my career once already (it's still my first :-?).
I used the trick posted by I don't remember who (add an x to the career's name in My Documents/SH3/Career folder) and it worked... Kaleun Karl-Heinz Voghel rose back from oblivion...

Something I've posted on numerous occasions ;)


Ditto http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9708/piratebf4.gif

I have yet to suffer the dreaded "save game bug" and I count my blessings for every time it hasn't reared its ugly head.

The following info was dredged up from a dusty corner of my brain, so I cannot vouch 100% for its veracity:

In another thread, I was just telling Brag that I vaguely recall SH3 doesn't play nice with some anti-virus programs' resident background monitoring and this can cause CTDs and corrupted saves due to the AV prog having to override every read/write access to check and make sure it's not a virus trying to infect your system.

That includes when SH3 writes a saved game to the hard drive because the game insists that it has total control of the system.

So try shutting down your anti-virus while playing SH3 and see if that helps. You might have to use Window's Task Manager to kill the AV resident monitor completely. Sometimes the core executables are still running in memory despite clicking on the icon in the System Tray and selecting "Close" or "Exit" or whatever.

Lost my career due to deleting Player, and have had 3 or so failed saves.

Someone needs to define what the bug is, exactly...

If they are referring to the one where saving when submerged causes all sorts of problems upon reloading (incl. CTDs and uncontrollable crash dives), nope, never seen that either despite a now 11-patrol career in an XXI, with every single save at 15-19m.

50% of my saves crash the game to desktop upon loading. I'm suspicious of the 'save and exit' command. Yet, sometimes it works.... I make three saves (in different places - i.e., travel a bit, then save again) on the surface with no one nearby before quiting. It is _annoying_.

Only had it happen to me once. (So far...........)

I would define it as saved games that fail to reload successfully. But I think the uncontrollable crash dive has been attributed to a weather mod so perhaps this shouldn't be included.

Nemo

I've had the bug happen a few times, but its a rare occurance. When it does get buggy, I usually am able to restore the "In Dock after Mission" save and it'll work again. I've only had two bad bugs. One borked my career (which was nice, as I needed to update to GWX 2.0 anyway), the other one was more of an annoyance (when I loaded, my U-Boat was kilometers away from where I saved, and it was beached).

It would be less of an annoyance if SH3 didnt take so long to load though.

yes, a lot of times.... even had to start 3 careers from scratch :shifty: