Need a little more information gamer3106. The Silent Hunter games on the 'modern' PC do need some tweaking to their configuration. First of all, what "path" do you have the game installed on your computer? ie: are you in "C:\Program Files.." or similar? Secondly, do you have any mods activated on the install, and if so, which mods have you used? Have you changed the mod configuration since starting play in the career?
When activating a memory 'manager', such as the 4Gig Patch, or LAA or whatever, you want to make certain the SH3.exe file is write-enabled first. Navigate into your Silent Hunter III folder and find the SH3.exe file. Right-click on the icon, then left-click on "Properties" at the bottom of the context menu that pops up. On the first "General" tab, toward the bottom in the "Attributes" section. Be sure that the "Read-only" tick box is empty, and "OK" that and try to enable the 4Gig Patch again.
Also, be aware that there are certain 'methods' to doing Saves in SH3 that others can point out to you. Suffice to say, you probably did not do sufficiently strong incantations prior to the Save...
- just joking, but alas, it sure seems to have troubles with certain situations... Post back with the answers to the first paragraph, and someone can lead guide and direct you to a more stable gameplay experience! (sorry, 'sales' influence...)
