here is what I found. some more hints of problems. I re-install sh4. deleting all saved files first. when I went to load .81, it just went real fast. corrupted files? how? used back up of the files. samething. re-down loaded and it installed. when I start the game, loading was fairly smooth; where before, there was a hesitation and at one time would abort. got into the game and sonar man was very active. couldn't shut him up. then made contact. turned out to be two freighters. closed and no reaction. set up shot. put two in first one, one dud, one explosion; and it sunk shortly. one explosion and a miss in the other. this one kept moving. this is when the sonar man, once again, clammed up; immediately after the ship sunk. and to my surprise, when scanning for the wounded one, there was another ship in the area. just out of ping range. it was very late so turned in.
when I loaded the game this morning, the hesitation in loading was back. the sonar man was still quiet. chased down the wounded one. and once again sonar ranges were all over the place. when I did scope peek and tried a sonar ranging, 'it' would repeat the range that was all ready in the TDC. fired two and missed at 1800 yards. everything seemed to be working great until that ship sunk. (when the ship exploded and sunk, I wasn't wearing earphones; but heard the explosion and then another noise that, well, was different [another bang, clang, idk])…
never left the game until saved...
just tired of this
but still
