Any chance for my career to survive?
 

Greetings fellow kaleun's!

Now, seeing as Im new here, I guess some words about me first would be a good idea. I've discovered SH3 about... what was it now? Half a year ago? And got instantly hooked once completed the Academy missions. Screams like "Alaaarm!" in german coming out of my room became a naturality. I spent day after day after day, stalking the seas, testing out various submarines, and trying to make uncle Donnitz proud with my tonnage scores. I swear, I don't remember when I was last so addicted to a computer game... and then, I decided to install GWX 2.0... Sweet Mother of Jesus, my beloved SH3 evolved into one of the best experience's I've ever had in front of my monitor. I just can't think of any word's to thank the GWX team enough. Guys, if there were more groups like you in the gaming society, Ubi, RockStar, EA, and the rest of the bunch would be kaput.

Anyway, after updating GWX, installing a couple of other mods, and fooling around with the game, I've decided to start a "serious" career. Not 100% realisim (I'm still having problems with manual targeting), and not exactly DiD, but I tried to order my crew around as realisticly as I could (no external loading with 15m/s wind speeds, etc.). The first career didin't go to well. Nor the second. And maybe the third. But finally, under the name of Hans Dohler, I succesfully completed my first patrol, having sunk a Cyclops cargo ship. Now, after that first patrol, I knew that I HAD to pull Dohler through the entire war.

Wow, long introduction I guess... So let me get to the point.

You see, for my second patrol, the BdU decided for U-98 and her crew to visit North Africa. Unfortunetly, the trip wasn't exactly what I thought it would be. I didin't encounter a single convoy, and the lone merchant's I discovered and sunk were mainly, "light-weight" units. So, after passing the Canary Islands on my way south, I decided to turn back, check out Gibraltar one last time, and then return to base.

And then, during my routine hydrophone sweeps I got multiple contact's... So I orderd an intercept course, and went ahead flank, hoping that I could still score some tonnage for this patrol.

Now, when I saw the first ship, I was a bit suprised, "Since when do cruisers lead convoy's?" And then I saw it. The massive hulk of the HMS Rodney, just 2km away, was going to be in front of my fore tubes in just a matter of minutes. Heck, as if that wasn't enough, I saw the HMS Nelson a little farther, 3km I think. "One at a time" I think, and prepare three torpedoes while observing the task force with my periscope.

If i remeber correctly, the first eel went under the ammo bunker, and turned out to be a dud. The second one, detonated nicely under the engine room. The third one, a steam-powered torpedoe, missed the bow, by just a few meters. But if memory serves me right, that was enough to put the ship to a stop. Then i played cat n' mouse with the escorts for about an hour, and went back to periscope depth. The Rodney was still there, and a fourth torpedoe, aimed at the ammo bunker sent it to it's watery grave.

My second patrol, and my first battleship in my entire SH3 history! You can imagine how proud and happy I was, with U-98 and her crew! But, since it was getting late (in RL) I saved the game, and couldn't wait until tommorow.

OK, I admit, NOW I'm getting to the point. (Yeah, I can't keep thing's short. Sue me)

You see, when I loaded the save, the following morning, the game decided to go haywire on me, and crashed to the desktop. Then the second time. And the third. And again, and again, and again. So tried another save, created shortly before firing upon the Rodney. No dice. It CTD again. Now, to play it safe, I backed up my carrer on a pendrive, and had a full system re-install. Which proved to be a complete waste of time. I couldn't even start Windows, let alone install SH3. :shifty: So, my beloved PC went to pay a visit to the store i bought it. Now, after about 2 week's later I got it back, (turns out my RAM was screwed) and I'm waiting for GWX to finish dl'ing. Now, do I have a chance, that I can contiune playing this carrer? I got a list of mod's I used earlier, so I can return to the state I left the game at.

And, there. That's my problem. That's the reason why I decided to finally join the Radio Room (i've been lurking here earlier). And again, sorry for posting such a long message, but seeing that this IS my first battleship were talking about... and... since I had to say "hello" and... and... and...

Oh, I guess I'll just shut up now... :oops:

Hi, Welcome to Subsim:ping:

the cause of the problem you're facing is that you saved while at sea and where around ships.
its and old SH3 Stock Bug aka Corrupt save
the career is as good as lost and you'll have to start over (again:-? )

its always adviced to avoid saving while at sea, return to base instead if a RL issue cuts in.
but if you really want to save at sea make sure:
-your not close to land
-there are no ships nearby
-your submarine is surface

just to lower the risk of the save file going corrupt.

HunterICX

Welcome aboard
Nice long post indeed

Glad your enjoying the GWXperience

You can but give your old career a try
Might work might not as Hunter said

The save system in SH3 sucks
Some ppl hit a problem all the time and some none

For future reference when the game CTDs you normally get a SH3 pop up

When the pop up appears after CTD click on the blue text " click here "

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h2...nter_168-1.jpg

Problem highlighted below

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h2...nter_169-2.jpg

Always helps to post the cause
Really narows it dont
Again may help may not just depends

Enjoy your stay

Welcome aboard Kaleun NightStalker.....it is always adviseable blah blah blah, as above LOL

SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

Welcome to the "Wolfpack"... :cool:

i feel pretty sorry for all those who have problems saving while submerged etc...i never seem to have any trouble.

welcome aboard mate.

if you have to lose the carreer... then channel your anger against britain and her lifelines in your next patrol. :up:

I've probably said this before but I'll say it again: I've never seen a game with so many issues. If it wasn't for GWX I wouldn't bother with it.

Welcome aboard :) & sorry to hear about your career loss. Blame it on the lazy & stupid developers...:down: :down:

Man, that must be sweet! Personally, I now operate by the rule of making sure there's no land within 50km (verify on the nav map), then I make sure there are no surface contacts, then I dive to make sure there are no periscope contacts, then I resurface and double check that there are no map contacts. THEN, if it's all clear, I save. It takes a bit of time, and it sometimes is annoying to leave a tight spot only to have to sneak in again, but it's worked 100% of the time since I've done it. Or maybe 98% of the time. The other thing is to save relatively frequently.

I have had this problem several times.

This is how I save:

As I get close to when I want to quit for the day, I save. Then carry on a bit longer (maybe an hour game--then three to five minutes at TCx1. Save and leave.

If my game crashes to desktop when loading, I go back to the previous save.

Good Luck, Kaleun.

It seems to be like a lottery when saving games. You can do all the right things; saving while surfaced, be nowhere within 50 km of land or contacts, etc. and the game still may CTD upon reload. If I have a successful patrol going I just don't want to risk losing it so I end it early. That's irritating because I might've been able to sink another ship or two.

Maybe if you check the weather settings on the saved game?
I think that's one of the settings that gets messed up?
There was a thread about it awhile ago,
Anyone remember it?

Yep
lol
In C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Campaigns\Campa ign
open the Campaign.RND\SCR and LND with notepad

Look for

WindHeading=0
WindSpeed=4.000000 < this line can get set to 0
WindRand=0

If that windspeed is set to 0 set it to 4 or 5
Make sure all 3 files read the same

That usually leads to the dive of death though

Another thing to check is the Main.cfg
You have 2
One in the SH3 folder in your documents and one in C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Cfg

Again the top 4 areas need to be identical
The player section doesnt have to be

Good luck

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