Loading saved games on patrol 4 cause "Send Error Report"?
 

tuddley3 from Ubisoft's own forum said that I should post my question here. Here it go's: Whenever I try to load a saved game on patrol 4, while loading near the end of the loading it gives me, "Send Error Report" every single time. I can load any of my previously saved games on patrols 1-3 work flawlessly. I have started over three times on patrol 4, sooner or later my saved games in patrol 4 just go's to hell/crashing with Send Error Report. I am not running any mods nor do I know anything about mods, I like to keep it simple. I don't see how 1-3 could have gone so nice, and all of a sudden it just craps on me like this. Surely someone else has had this same problem, I just can't believe that Ubisoft's own forums had no solution to the problem!!:down: So I ask for your help before I toss this lovely game, I can't believe Ubisoft kicked me to the curb!:down:

Take a look here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=109293


Some tips..........

Folks seem to have luck avoiding this nasty bug by making sure they save only when on the map screen. It also seems to be good measure to name each save individually.

For instance I use WP 1-1, WP 1-2, WP 1-3....etc....

War Patrol 1 save 1, War Patrol 1 save 2........

Nasty bug. I haven't run into it since I've adopted the same precautions, but it's still to early in my second career to tell........

P.S.

Welcome to Subsim. Good bunch of folks here.

i always double save games with one named "quick save" so if i mess up i can recover it. after restarting game if the quick save works ok i save it as my regular save point.

its also possable your maxing out your temp file storage on your drive.

when was the last time you did a disk cleanup and cleared your temp files?

My HDD is kept very clean and I defrag sometimes twice a week (75% free space)depending on how much I play. I name my saves mission save 1-10 in each patrol, but save over them all sooner or later. I have a pretty powerful PC, I have AF 16x, AA 8x everything max out and still running fast frames per second. The thing that gets me is every one of my 10 saves becomes unloadable after the crash - Send Error Report. Lastnight someone showed my that my short cut has gu.exe instead of sh4.exe and traced this to many problems and bug causes over at Ubisoft's forums. He said that after patching 1.4 his short cut changed from sh4.exe to gu.exe. What does yours say?

I have never cleaned this temp file storage, because the last time I deleted this temp file storage I lost a lot of stuff that I download years earlyier, like sunjava, Adode Reader, Win rar etc... I don't even know where this temp file storage is located, I can only find it if I run the cleaning disk program.

i did a new install to use 1.5 so i never loaded 1.4

the files im talking about are the temp internet files not storage files and the disk cleanup utility will purge them. you can decide how much space is used by your computer so its not about how big your hard drive is. they fill up as you use the computer so a large download or large game save can fill it up with a gig or two of data which could, i repeat could, have a slowing down effect on game saves and if it needs more room it dumps some data to make room for new data. its mainly for storing copies with all the details of web pages so they pop up faster, it doesnt have to ask what to put where because it already has this info stored in the temp files memory. its also how the computer can start right back up at the spot you paused it without reloading and without missing a beat, thats the temp files storing all that data but as the name says its temporary so it changes by what your doing.

if you've got a up to date system it should be fine though.

Are you saying theres a new patch out for SH4, or is this 1.5 patch for the expansion to SH4? So its a good idea to delete my temporary internet files before plunging into any game? Mine is set to 1GB, should I make it 2GB in size?

no problem with me....

Huh...? What does "no problem with me" mean?

sh4 ubm v1.5 is an expansion to the game but it really changes how the game works, it loads faster and has a lot more you can do in the game.

it will take the original sh4 v1.0 game and update it all the way to v1.5 without needing to install any other other patches. (for $10 you cant beat it)


as far as a setting to use for the temp internet files the default setting is 1024mb or 1gb

1gb is fine but it would be good to clear it before you play games that take a lot of memory. (ones with large save files)

sometimes its set to a lower number to help a computers speed if ram is limited, when i only had 2gb of ram i set mine at 512mb and it helped me a lot.

sometimes mine is full and sometimes its not even though it doesnt feel like im doing much but a few downloads and a little websurfing can fill it up quick so it definately wouldnt hurt to clear it before playing games.

maybe what happened to you was somehow related to that large saved files bug thing? i never heard of more than one saved file being corrupted all at the same time.

I don't emty my temporary internet files often, maybe twice a week at best after surfing for hours a day. I think that might have been why I was having so much trouble, you think? :lol: After deleting my temp internet files I have played through 3 refits and have every two saves I exit to Windows and check the loading status, so far so good after 10 saves.

well i still dont see how that should effect anything else but the last save.

are you sure you havent recently installed or uninstalled any mods? or used the silent 3ditor to open a file?

the 3ditor can sometimes mess things up if you arent carefull, its a great tool but it still has a few minor bugs still being worked out.

I wouldn't even know how to install a mod, I don't completely understand them or why people use them. I checked my temp storage file size, it was 4GB in size. I lowered it to 1024MB. Also I was wondering tonight while I was saving a patrol weather saving over an existing saved game could corrupt some of my saves, because I have been overwriting save after save after save before when I was having problems. My saves look like this, War Patrol 4 Save 1 through 11. Now I'm afraid to overwrite them thinking it will bring the loading problems back.

never had that issue

cept 1.5 did mess up a sweet save....over 1,000,000 tons too:damn:...half my 3/4 of the crew were LT's