Constant Crashing

[MrHolmes]

Hello everyone,
Thank you all for the help once again!

I did everything you instructed me to do and and I have been playing for the whole day without any crashes.
I'm still embarrassed that I somehow haven't noticed that I had SH5 mods installed.
Oh and, is there anything else I should know about saved careers before I mess something up again?

[Chicken Man]

Originally Posted by MrHolmes

Hello everyone,
Thank you all for the help once again!

I did everything you instructed me to do and and I have been playing for the whole day without any crashes.
I'm still embarrassed that I somehow haven't noticed that I had SH5 mods installed.
Oh and, is there anything else I should know about saved careers before I mess something up again?

Save sparingly,and try to avoid saving near convoys or land.SH3 is a very unstable game and it is extremely likely that your saves will get corrupted,even if you do everything right.Rarely,corrupted saves will work all of a sudden after you try to load them several times.

If you save the game and it gets corrupted,all of the saves after it will be corrupted too.You must try loading the saves before it until you find one that works.Make some backups of the save files though,since they get deleted after loading an older save.

I think i managed to make the corrupted saves less of a problem.When you want to save,go the saves folder and delete all of them.After you do that,save the game.When you want to save the game again,go back to the saves folder and delete the old save,and then save.Repeat.
If you do this then i think that since the corrupted save file gets deleted,then the save after it will not be corrupted.Also,i think it's better to save when you are viewing the map,not on external camera or inside the sub.When you want to alt-tab from the game,also do it only when on the navigation map,or else the audio gets messed up.

When near land or many ships,play the game at lower speeds,or the game WILL crash.

I spent much more time waiting for the game to load or trying to make my corrupted saves work than actually playing the game.It is so absolutely frustrating,spending hours of your life hunting a convoy,sinking tons of ships and happily plotting a course back to base,only for the game to crash all out of a sudden before finding out that all of your saves do not work.

SH4 is more stable,and perhaps more importantly it loads very fast compared to SH3.Playing SH4 with mods like dark waters can be an alternative to sh3.But i still often find myself enjoying the feel of sh3 more than modded SH4.

Don't let these things discourage you though,maybe i am just extremely unlucky with all these crashes and corrupted saves.Sh3 is a very good game when it works,and i had many fun times with it.
Sneaking into New York and sinking a large ship in front of the statue of liberty,sinking HMS Nelson in the shallow waters of Gibraltar,fighting surface battles with convoy escorts and winning,getting caught by bombers while loading external torpedoes in the Carribean...
SH3 can be a very fun and atmospheric game,it's one of the greatest games in the world,owing in large part to the dedicated modding community.Have fun with it