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merc4ulfate · 12-07-13, 02:25 PM

It seems your doing many things that contribute to your own errors.

Many learned years ago that saving near large groups of vessels can cause corrupt saves. You just do not do it. Also adding a mod then changing an aspect of it can give you game play issues if you have not adjust all factors from the resulting item that you change.

Time compression is fine over long distance with little shipping traffic but around ports and convoys it is always taught that it should be avoided. Another issue that causes compression issues is what you have running on your computer along with the game. Sure we have better CPUs and ram these days but with the added load of OS's your still going to get compression issues from a game that is around 20 years old playing on a new system.

Of course if you have saved a game where you have deliberately put yourself in a situation where compression or large item mapping has to be saved your asking for trouble. It is one of the first things people are told to avoid doing when saving at sea. It is not an issue saving at port but when you pull up along side a convoy of 34 merchants and 10 escorts there is no guarantee that every single lat and longitude, speed, draft, where the wave was, where the smoke was and all of those other factors of every single vessel will be saved and then reinitialized upon resuming game play. Save in bad places will get you bad saves. Many games out there have holes where a player may fall into and then be trapped in between mapped textures and then if they save it they will not be happy when they try to play again. Same goes for SH.

You should take the time to read many dos and dont of the game ... none of these items are new to players who have been at it or years.

It sounds like it would do you well to read through a few of these threads.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=107783

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=146795

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=128517

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=131872

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=222

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=158234

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=155786

Everyone one of those will have real gems in them

12-07-13, 02:25 PM	#3
merc4ulfate DILLIGAF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: florida Posts: 2,058 Downloads: 210 Uploads: 0	It seems your doing many things that contribute to your own errors. Many learned years ago that saving near large groups of vessels can cause corrupt saves. You just do not do it. Also adding a mod then changing an aspect of it can give you game play issues if you have not adjust all factors from the resulting item that you change. Time compression is fine over long distance with little shipping traffic but around ports and convoys it is always taught that it should be avoided. Another issue that causes compression issues is what you have running on your computer along with the game. Sure we have better CPUs and ram these days but with the added load of OS's your still going to get compression issues from a game that is around 20 years old playing on a new system. Of course if you have saved a game where you have deliberately put yourself in a situation where compression or large item mapping has to be saved your asking for trouble. It is one of the first things people are told to avoid doing when saving at sea. It is not an issue saving at port but when you pull up along side a convoy of 34 merchants and 10 escorts there is no guarantee that every single lat and longitude, speed, draft, where the wave was, where the smoke was and all of those other factors of every single vessel will be saved and then reinitialized upon resuming game play. Save in bad places will get you bad saves. Many games out there have holes where a player may fall into and then be trapped in between mapped textures and then if they save it they will not be happy when they try to play again. Same goes for SH. You should take the time to read many dos and dont of the game ... none of these items are new to players who have been at it or years. It sounds like it would do you well to read through a few of these threads. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=107783 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=146795 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=128517 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=131872 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=222 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=158234 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=155786 Everyone one of those will have real gems in them