career play is stuck

[pmcmull]

Originally Posted by Hooston

Crashing part way through a career is a common symptom of problems around memory addressing. Usually it's lack of a 4GB patch or the equivalent HSie hard coded fixes - or they are not properly installed as it is a real pain to patch sh3.exe and set it up in JSGME.
i thought OneAlex had set up everything, but looks like you found a way to break it.

For some reason the save game files grow considerably throughout a career. This smells to me like a memory leak coding error as the game does not seem to need to save so much data. Anybody know what is in the big files? Anyone ever tried to fix it, for example via SH3 Commander?

Like I said when I edited the earlier post, it turned out I had not run the LargeAddressAware patch to that copy of SH3. It looks like I am on my way again now. I had recently added an SSD drive (faster!!) and put new installs on the new volume. But missed a step.