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Originally Posted by DarkFish
then explain why some people keep getting corrupted save files and other people (like me) have never had any, while they're using the same game version / OS etc. If the software is so similar the only thing left that can cause corrupted saves is hardware (or hardware related stuff like drivers)
Still, I agree UBI should make a saving system that works on any computer.
(also, what did you want SH4 to load besides data? Ain't 'data' the way everything is stored on a PC?)
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If the problem was hardware related ("faulty" SW driver mismatch that communicates with "faulty" HW for example) it would crash before you could saved anything - game would process data that would cause crash so you couldn`t actually save them ( those are "extra data").
Save game stores only (at least should) data you actually encountered before the crash. Those aren`t data that are artificially created (Ubi knows better how this works - just my opinion, maybe there are some data that causes the crash) after you saved something. And thats the problem.
This game must have some strange savegame algorithm system that doesn`t close all "opened strings" before it actually saves RUNNING game = when it tries to load a game those strings are missing and game crashes (like I said it happens
rarely but it is there - I`ve had last crash about 2 weeks ago, now I`m playing for fun with SSBN Ohio and saving underwater even when attacking big convoys with 15+ ships and simply no crash yet)... When you try to load a game, there are still few strings that cause a crash because game can`t simply find them. There must be something like this, because when you continue playing for a while after you saved game your game won`t crash, just when you load.
Try to load and save 100 times in 20 different enemy harbors when few destroyers are throwing depth charges or shoot at you at perispope depth... Or just save 200 times per patrol near different ports. If you try this 10K times, I`ll believe that we all have faulty HW
(just j/k)
Anyway, if this would be really HW related issue, it would be really interesting (can`t save properly because of "faulty hardware" that otherwise actually runs game at 100% - it even sounds illogical unless we all have corrupted harddrives
- remember this game needs/should have to load ALL of information/files or "data" before it can actually save it... unless, well... UBI ). Some official statement from UBI would be nice here.
P.S.: I really don`t want to argue here, I`m just 100% sure that it`s not my hardware issue...
Man, more topics like this and I actually start to believe I`ve go total crap at home
