Error Updated Personnel File in SH3 Commander

Dave Kay · 03-14-17, 12:25 AM

Greetings fellow Commanders, I see this thread is quite dated however, having had similar problems like it before, I have something of a solution to offer to this problem and it goes like this:

In the middle of a bold attack, inside convoy, in between the convoy lanes, we first torpedoed one Large Merc and then a small tanker and while those were sinking, as we lined up to give another fish to another small tanker, the game suddenly crashed with the signature WIN-XP "Windows has encountered a problem with SHIII and must..." etc.,. where WinXP nicely returned me to desktop.

Went back into game and looked for this commander's save dates for this mission and sure enough, there was his START PATROL DATE at Feb 7th 2017 at the top of list but--- my last good SAVE PRIOR TO THAT CRASH-DAY appeared above it, at the top of SAVE list, as Feb 1st 2017.

Make sense?

Got back out of game and went EXPLORER looking for that corrupted date. Eventually found the beggar in My Documents/SH3/data/cfg/Careers/(your Commanders-name folder)/0 (zero being the folder name)

Pondering what to do now I decided that attempting a make date changes to the TEN associated SAVE files in that folder was not a good idea so, I took a chance and just deleted them, (all ten associated files, associated with that corrupt date, inside that '0' folder) leaving everything else alone; let the chips fall where they may.

After all, we've all collectively, and quite probably, lost several thousand commanders to corrupt saves in the course of this game, so what the hell did I/we have to lose?

It worked~!

Started game from SH3 Commander, chose last GOOD SAVE DATE from my commander's list and have just come back from a successful THREE KILLS inside a convoy--- 2 small tankers and the Large Merc!

Hope this helps others as your learned posts have helped me today~!

CHEERS~!

03-14-17, 12:25 AM	#12
Dave Kay Gunner Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: AZ Posts: 93 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	Greetings fellow Commanders, I see this thread is quite dated however, having had similar problems like it before, I have something of a solution to offer to this problem and it goes like this: In the middle of a bold attack, inside convoy, in between the convoy lanes, we first torpedoed one Large Merc and then a small tanker and while those were sinking, as we lined up to give another fish to another small tanker, the game suddenly crashed with the signature WIN-XP "Windows has encountered a problem with SHIII and must..." etc.,. where WinXP nicely returned me to desktop. Went back into game and looked for this commander's save dates for this mission and sure enough, there was his START PATROL DATE at Feb 7th 2017 at the top of list but--- my last good SAVE PRIOR TO THAT CRASH-DAY appeared above it, at the top of SAVE list, as Feb 1st 2017. Make sense? Got back out of game and went EXPLORER looking for that corrupted date. Eventually found the beggar in My Documents/SH3/data/cfg/Careers/(your Commanders-name folder)/0 (zero being the folder name) Pondering what to do now I decided that attempting a make date changes to the TEN associated SAVE files in that folder was not a good idea so, I took a chance and just deleted them, (all ten associated files, associated with that corrupt date, inside that '0' folder) leaving everything else alone; let the chips fall where they may. After all, we've all collectively, and quite probably, lost several thousand commanders to corrupt saves in the course of this game, so what the hell did I/we have to lose? It worked~! Started game from SH3 Commander, chose last GOOD SAVE DATE from my commander's list and have just come back from a successful THREE KILLS inside a convoy--- 2 small tankers and the Large Merc! Hope this helps others as your learned posts have helped me today~! CHEERS~!