[Damo]

Hi, so what happens when you start the game with SH3Commander on that career? Does it crash?

One point to note, SH3 is very finicky when it comes to savegames that were made if you are within 50km of land, near any AI units like planes, ships. At best, if you saved near a ship you sunk it will respawn it undamaged and become a 'ghost ship' in that sinking it again will give you no credit, and wasted ammo, torps. At worst, it will corrupt your save.

I always dive and listen on the hydrophone for nearby shipping before surfacing again and saving, plus I'll do 2 saves 10 minutes apart as a backup. As a rule of thumb I save my game every 2 in-game days and use a naming policy like 'P1-1', 'P1-1b' (Patrol 1, save 1 / Patrol 1, save 1 backup). I will always try and load the backup first, if that fails, I try the first save, then work backwards until it works.

Unfortunately, there are a number of issues that give rise to these sorts of problems which is why it's important to make saves in this manner. Once you get into this routine though it's rare to have a problem that forces you to scrap the whole patrol.

Hope this helped.

Damo.