SHIII Load Failure

[Steeltrap]

This is a thread I posted in the general SHIII forum - I've copied it here as there's more concentrated technical knowledge in this forum.
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All

I've been playing with GWX 2.1 and OLC mod (NOT including GUI part) + SHIII commander.
In 3rd patrol Dec 1939.
Did a series of attacks against a convoy then broke contact.
Saved game once well away from anything (as far as I could tell - weather pretty poor).

Now I find SHIII won't run. I get the GWX load screen and the red bar at the bottom gets about 40% across then it fails and cuts to an error message (something to do with SH3.exe and simdata.dll). I have not made any changes to the game mid-patrol. I have loaded other saves in this patrol.

I've tried loading directly without SHIII commander - same result.

Anyone have any ideas? I don't see why it should start doing this. Don't want to go through the hassle of a re-install, and can't see why that should be necessary. Had I tried loading another mod etc. (especially mid-patrol) then I could understand it.

One other question - when saving, does it cause problems to save over previous saves using the same name? I hope not, as it would mean having 20-30 saves in no time!

Any suggestions/comments/advice welcome.

Cheers

[Jimbuna]

It is possible you have saved within 30km of the convoy (rendering range for the SH3 world).

Usually, the only fix is to resort to a prior save.

Stooooopid game engine.

Applying the same name to multiple game saves should not prove problematic.

Try to ensure you maintain the 'Player' name in the save game box because that is strongly rumoured to help avoid future save game problems.

[Steeltrap]

Trouble is that SHIII will not load, so I don't have any options as to which save to use......

[nirwana]

btw u cant have unlimited savings in a patrol, its deleting the oldest 1 automaticly if it reach 9 saved games if i remember correctly.

Could temporary cache files be the reason for the trouble ?

[Gato76]

delete your last save in the SH3 folder

[Steeltrap]

Originally Posted by Gato76

delete your last save in the SH3 folder

Thanks, I tried that - deleted all but the first save, but it's made no difference.

[OuNiS]

Originally Posted by Steeltrap

One other question - when saving, does it cause problems to save over previous saves using the same name? I hope not, as it would mean having 20-30 saves in no time!

Any suggestions/comments/advice welcome.

I had a problems when I saved using the same name. Many times after I have overwrite existing save SH3 couldn't load game next time.
After that I never overwriting saves.