HELP!

mangaroca · 04-28-07, 09:28 AM

Hi All,

I'm in the middle of the GWX campaign (Nevember 1940) in Silent Hunter 3. I have attacked a large convoy marked with a ring (not a box as usual!), just West of Gibraltar. I had to leave the game so I saved and quit.

Now, when I try to load my save game I get an error message saying there has been a critical error and the game crashes to desktop! It happened twice already!!! I use SH3 Commander 2.7 and I don't roll back every time I quit the game (99% of cases I am safe in my home port). I have not been adding ANY mods lately so rolling back is not needed. Basically, I haven't touched the game's folder at all!

What is happening? Why can't I load my save game? What can I do? Does this have something to do with the fact that the convoy I attacked was marked with a circle instead of a box? BTW, all it's escorts were on fire so I assumed they have been attacked by another u-boot... Now I know it was a bug... right???

Please, help! I'm desperate!!!

mangaroca · 04-28-07, 09:41 AM

This is the error message...

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...2007/error.jpg

mr chris · 04-28-07, 10:29 AM

Well saving to close to convoys and other ships has been know to cause Ctd's this goes right back to stock SH3. Way before GWX hit the scene.
As a rule of thumb you should never save your game when you are:
200km or less from land.
near/ in sight of convoys or ships that you have just sunk. ( ie you have got the shes going down message but she has not sunk.
when you are sumberged.

I really feel for you mate, I came across a convoy like you did it had been attacked by a wolfpack the large circle on the nav map. i sunk the whole convoy was up to 90,000t and had torps to spare. But a bit later i saved while i was to soon after a sinking a ship and i became a victim of the save game bug.

rb4door · 04-28-07, 10:37 AM

^^ ah so thats the general guidelines.

I too dont bother saving mid patrol in GWX as the saved game i've tried mid patrol will not load. I dont even get an error message, it just says "not too long ago" then i'm back in the desktop and you'd never know I was even in SH3!

Unfortunately now this means my patrols normally take the good majority of a day to complete. Maybe thats a good thing.....

bigboywooly · 04-28-07, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mangaroca

This is the error message...

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...2007/error.jpg

Thats the usual SH3 error message

If you click on the blue text " click here " it will give you the cause of the error

04-28-07, 09:28 AM	#1
mangaroca Bosun Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Deep and diving... Posts: 62 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	HELP! Hi All, I'm in the middle of the GWX campaign (Nevember 1940) in Silent Hunter 3. I have attacked a large convoy marked with a ring (not a box as usual!), just West of Gibraltar. I had to leave the game so I saved and quit. Now, when I try to load my save game I get an error message saying there has been a critical error and the game crashes to desktop! It happened twice already!!! I use SH3 Commander 2.7 and I don't roll back every time I quit the game (99% of cases I am safe in my home port). I have not been adding ANY mods lately so rolling back is not needed. Basically, I haven't touched the game's folder at all! What is happening? Why can't I load my save game? What can I do? Does this have something to do with the fact that the convoy I attacked was marked with a circle instead of a box? BTW, all it's escorts were on fire so I assumed they have been attacked by another u-boot... Now I know it was a bug... right??? Please, help! I'm desperate!!!

04-28-07, 10:29 AM	#3
mr chris Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Herefordshire, England Posts: 3,562 Downloads: 216 Uploads: 0	Well saving to close to convoys and other ships has been know to cause Ctd's this goes right back to stock SH3. Way before GWX hit the scene. As a rule of thumb you should never save your game when you are: 200km or less from land. near/ in sight of convoys or ships that you have just sunk. ( ie you have got the shes going down message but she has not sunk. when you are sumberged. I really feel for you mate, I came across a convoy like you did it had been attacked by a wolfpack the large circle on the nav map. i sunk the whole convoy was up to 90,000t and had torps to spare. But a bit later i saved while i was to soon after a sinking a ship and i became a victim of the save game bug. __________________

04-28-07, 09:41 AM	#2
mangaroca Bosun Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Deep and diving... Posts: 62 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	This is the error message... http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...2007/error.jpg

04-28-07, 10:37 AM	#4
rb4door Machinist's Mate Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: St Naz Posts: 129 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	^^ ah so thats the general guidelines. I too dont bother saving mid patrol in GWX as the saved game i've tried mid patrol will not load. I dont even get an error message, it just says "not too long ago" then i'm back in the desktop and you'd never know I was even in SH3! Unfortunately now this means my patrols normally take the good majority of a day to complete. Maybe thats a good thing.....