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Originally Posted by GreyBeard
Do you submerge and listen on the phones yourself for contacts and maintain a minimum of 50km from land and ships you have sunk?
Game saves are my biggest compliant, quite likely my only complaint, about SH3. It's unacceptable that one cannot just stop playing when one must. And it appears it's unfixable or I'm sure someone would have by now. Please excuse my rant, needed to add my $.02 worth.
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Two days ago, I saved a game while there was a convoy overhead and escorts were raining ashcans on my head. Reloaded that save with NO problem. I can testify that I personally do not have any problems saving SH3 games with no in-game restrictions. I have had problems in the past - terrible problems that took me weeks of work to track down. But those turned out to be the result of a) sloppy practices on my part which corrupted my install, b) failure to explicitly follow mod set-up instructions and incompatibility warnings, and c) a couple of mods that have a reputation for causing problems. Mostly, it was my own bad practices. Like forgetting to roll back Commander before changing mods. Like changing mods, then trying to reload a mid-patrol save. Like reusing a save (saving with the same name without deleting the earlier save). There was no single mistake that wrecked the game, but the effects accumulated over time and left me with a corrupted installation that would not make a reliable mid-patrol save.
In order to unwind the mess I had created, I had to uninstall EVERYTHING, then run a registry cleaner. I then reinstalled SH3 (and Commander and JSGME and Weather and all the other external add-ons I use). Then I restored all my mods from the original downloaded zip files, carefully following all instructions for V16B1 and Stiebler's patch. Then I activated them all, carefully monitoring the incompatibility warnings from JSGME. Since then, I have had absolutely no problems with crashing reloads. BTW, my problem occurred about almost a year ago. Since then I have played, and saved, many sessions without a CTD.
All of this is a LOT of work and requires more attention to detail than I was willing to give the first time out. But the problem of lost or stuck patrols is extremely frustrating. It can lead to a loss of interest in what is otherwise a terrific game. I found it was worth the extra time and effort to get a good, reliable installation, so I can now enjoy my favorite subsim.