500 meters crash bug and windspeed of 0 m/s

[sublynx]

I had that crashed savegame bug that drops one’s boat to a depth of 500 meters in a jiffy.

The weather was perfect when I saved, no wind at all, there were no enemies close as far as I know, I was surfaced.

My boat was unable to move, but I was able to teleport back to base. At other times I had this bug, teleporting was not possible – however at those saves I was submerged and had escorts on top of me. It might be worth a try to wait those escorts out and try teleporting back when they have left. But I have had this bug only three or four times, so I might remember the details of the previous 500 meter crashes incorrectly.

I then came to think about a post in these forums where someone made a claim that saving at 0 m/s could cause these kind of crashes at times and that the solution would be to change the weather parameters of the savegame. So I exited the game, went back to SH3Commander and booted the game again. I use SH3+GWX and SH3Commander to boot the game, but I also have SH3Weather. I reloaded the savegame made at sea, where the crash had happened, not the one that was made automatically after teleporting back to port. The game reloaded, but now the weather had changed and the wind was 7m/s (randomized by SH3Weather). Now I’m wondering if the weather is one factor in those 500 meter crashes.

I guess it could be a million other things as well causing this crash, but maybe it is worth a try, next time you drop 500 meters at zero windspeed, to just try changing the weather and reloading.