Now I remember why I gave up on SHIII after it first came out

[Samwolf]

I can't take this frustration anymore. Once again the "save game" bug has ruined this game for me.

I originally ran into it with stock Sh#, I hoped that the 1.4b patch would have fixed it but no luck. I gave up on it. After a while, I started pllying Rub when it came out but the bug hit me again and I gave up. GW came out and I thought I'd try it again.

A few days ago I ran into the "save game" bug, the one where after loading a saved game your sub immediately dives to crush depth and your career ends. Not too bad, go back about 6 hours of game time to the previous save and lose the 2 ships I took out in a convoy attack. This time I don't turn off the computer or exit the game since Thursday, I do the save and exit for this mission 8 times but I continue without exiting and just pause the game when I had to leave. So after "playing" for two days real time, I finally have to really "save and exit" . When I reload the last save game, I dive to the bottom, frustating but I'll just go back and load the previos one, another dive to the bottom, all eight saves dive my sub to the bottom. Only the "IN Port before mission" will load.

I know, bitch, bitch, bitch, but this takes 100% of the fun out of this game, it's just happened too many times in the past and it still keeps happening.

I don't save submerged, near any ships or land, I turn off the gramophone and have TC at 1, nothing seems to make a difference, once the saves start corrupting they just keep on doing it. I was able to play for about 2 months this time before the problem showed up. I reinstalled the game and it only took two days to show up this time. None of the "fixes" suggested here work for me.

Does anyone know if it's the save files that get corrupted when they're created or does the code that load the game get corrupted somehow?

I was so looking forward to GWX but this is just too much of a killer.

Sorry to rant here but I figure the other U-Boat Captains here would either be able to tell me how to prevent this or at least understand my frustration and "need" to vent. The wife just doesn't get it, "It's just a game" ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHH!