save games/load game problems...

[Lastman]

every time I load a saved game, the loading stops at 3/5, then It will show the message "find em, chase em, sink em" (I use TMO 2.5) but at this point the game freezes, or sometimes CTD .... I read around, i don't remember where, that it was a common problem and that the solution was to remove the attribute "read-only" from folders of SH4 and from documents/SH4 (for game saves) .... so I did it and the first times it worked, but it doesn't work now, and every time I try to remove the read-only attribute from the 2 folders, if I'm going to review the properties of the folder it is as if I had not done anything (the box is greyed out).

I use TMO 2.5
"bigger and better protractors"
TMO_ Metric_SpeedChart_Nomo

help, i try to remove the attribute read only with my administrator account, or from the prompt command attrib -r...but nothing happened, please help

[Lastman]

no one can help?

[fireftr18]

Patience young padawan. People have jobs or other real life activities to tend to and Subsim is down on the list. You need to give people time to get on, read it, then help.

Normally, the problem is a corrupt save. That's usually caused by saving the game over and over in the same file. The save system is rather complicated and if you overwrite the same save file too many times, you'll corrupt it. Save each time in a different file. While still in the office screen, I'll make a master save. For instance "fireftr18." Then, while on patrol, I'll add a number ("fireftr18 1","fireftr18 2", and so on).
When you saved was a problem on older computers. I never had a problem, but other have. After discussions, a safe way to save was developed. Try to save during day, on the surface, in clear weather, with nothing within sensor range.

[Lastman]

Originally Posted by fireftr18

Patience young padawan. People have jobs or other real life activities to tend to and Subsim is down on the list. You need to give people time to get on, read it, then help.

Normally, the problem is a corrupt save. That's usually caused by saving the game over and over in the same file. The save system is rather complicated and if you overwrite the same save file too many times, you'll corrupt it. Save each time in a different file. While still in the office screen, I'll make a master save. For instance "fireftr18." Then, while on patrol, I'll add a number ("fireftr18 1","fireftr18 2", and so on).
When you saved was a problem on older computers. I never had a problem, but other have. After discussions, a safe way to save was developed. Try to save during day, on the surface, in clear weather, with nothing within sensor range.

thanks for your answer...but i load an old save game near a resupply ship, it work, but when i save whit a new save game name and try to load it,the game CTD

[fireftr18]

Originally Posted by Lastman

thanks for your answer...but i load an old save game near a resupply ship, it work, but when i save whit a new save game name and try to load it,the game CTD

The file may still have corrupted. Try abandoning that patrol and starting a new one.

[TorpX]

Lastman, can you verify that the save game files/folders are not "Read Only"? The reason I ask, is that Windows Vista is known to be stubborn about allowing you to change the status of files/folders.