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Tolkemec · 08-11-10, 02:33 AM

To Steve: I feel you. I had the same problems over and over again, losing a lot of careers (and I know it will happen again). The issue of the savegames is unforgivable in a retail game, and it's something I really am angry about. It is usually this issue that makes me lose interest in playing SH3, yet after a while (maybe as long as an year), I just come back to my old Type IIa again. I've been playing this game since 2006 I think (that was when I first wrote in subsim, asking for help as usual).

Now I am VERY careful with my saves (you know I save a lot, so I figure I am just ok being a rider of permastorms). Never got the death dive pbl though (fingers crossed).

Now before I save I put TC to 1024 to see if there is a frame drop, If there isn't, I go to the nav map, go to TC 1, hit esc, then come back to the navmap without saving, then hit esc again and save game, each time with a different name. Then I copy my SH3 folder in a SH3backup folder. Yeah, its kind of a ritual... still it is working fine.

Before knowing that the savegame was actually an issue (didn't know of the subsim www), I once saved a corrupt file hiting ALT+TAB multiple times while in the loading screen. Eventually (don't know why), It worked. It took a lot of patience and complete lack of computing skills, but I *really* was very happy. I think (SH3 never told me what hit me), I got bombed by a plane in a mediterranean night one hour later, losing all hands. Oh well...

To Flaxpants: You don't know the extent of your luck, Flaxpants... but you're tempting your karma! You're attracting the unwanted attention of the Macbeth Curse to your SH3... do it at your own risk :-)

08-11-10, 02:33 AM	#7
Tolkemec Torpedoman Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: BCN Posts: 118 Downloads: 131 Uploads: 0	To Steve: I feel you. I had the same problems over and over again, losing a lot of careers (and I know it will happen again). The issue of the savegames is unforgivable in a retail game, and it's something I really am angry about. It is usually this issue that makes me lose interest in playing SH3, yet after a while (maybe as long as an year), I just come back to my old Type IIa again. I've been playing this game since 2006 I think (that was when I first wrote in subsim, asking for help as usual). Now I am VERY careful with my saves (you know I save a lot, so I figure I am just ok being a rider of permastorms). Never got the death dive pbl though (fingers crossed). Now before I save I put TC to 1024 to see if there is a frame drop, If there isn't, I go to the nav map, go to TC 1, hit esc, then come back to the navmap without saving, then hit esc again and save game, each time with a different name. Then I copy my SH3 folder in a SH3backup folder. Yeah, its kind of a ritual... still it is working fine. Before knowing that the savegame was actually an issue (didn't know of the subsim www), I once saved a corrupt file hiting ALT+TAB multiple times while in the loading screen. Eventually (don't know why), It worked. It took a lot of patience and complete lack of computing skills, but I really was very happy. I think (SH3 never told me what hit me), I got bombed by a plane in a mediterranean night one hour later, losing all hands. Oh well... To Flaxpants: You don't know the extent of your luck, Flaxpants... but you're tempting your karma! You're attracting the unwanted attention of the Macbeth Curse to your SH3... do it at your own risk :-)