[MichaelFrazzy]

Hey everyone, hate for my first post here to be asking for help with bugs. I got hooked on Cold Waters for a while, then Uboat more recently, before realizing there was a better version of both (imo), SH4. I spent about 8 hours just getting the feel of things before starting my first patrol and feeling comfortable with the changes between this and the games I have played before this. I want to start by thanking everyone on here for the help getting the game up in running perfectly (at first) and in 1440p.

I spent days on my first run, sinking 75,000 tons before starting to head back to Pearl. I started getting "game failed to save" messages in addition to major stutters, so I restarted my game. When I started back up, every save I tried to load crashed the game with no error or anything. I have made sure I am running from the proper sh4.exe file in administrator mode, deleted a bunch of saves, and every other fix I can find. I verified all of the files and reinstalled the mods. Uplay detected corrupt files apparently but that might have just been my saves. Nothing has worked regardless.

So after shaking that off I started a new save today on my day off and was feeling like I was getting even better luck with my patrols as I had just downed 2 large euro liners and 2 large old transports, all of their escorts, and 3 planes. On the way back to refuel I ran out and was stranded about 100nm from Midway, and against my better judgement I changed limitedfuel: true to false in my save file and now the same thing is happening with every single save file from this new run and I'm pretty upset. I haven't been able to turn in a single patrol (besides my very first lack luster one) or earn a single medal even despite already playing dozens of hours. What can I do to prevent this from happening, and can I save this last run I haven't deleted yet? This is bumming me out because this is quickly becoming my favorite game but I keep losing careers and am worried about trying to start out a 3rd.

I'm running the Gold Edition 1.5 I got on UPlay (I saved it in the new file location like is mentioned on here though, and unlocked the game to be able to use all of my RAM.) I am running the big "new player friendly" batch of 17 mods through JSGME. I got some alerts that some of the mods both effected the same files, but the game worked fine at first and of course the bundle wouldn't be so popular if it caused conflicts that messed with the game, right?

PC Specs:

Windows 10

12GB DDR4 RAM

Nvidia Quadro 5000/GTX 1080 graphics card

latest gen Intel Xeon 4 Core

Thanks in advanced