Silent Humter 5 locks when saving game

[rlaycock]

Hi all
I have not plated SH5 for a while, however I decided to reinstall the staem version I own and got it running fine (I thought) However when the game auto saves or if I request a save it locks up with a message of please wait on a mainly grayed out screen.



Any suggestions as to how this can be fixed?



Also can the steam version be played totally off line without all the saving to server stuff?


Thanks in advance if you can help.
best wishes.
Bob