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Old 05-14-07, 04:09 AM   #1
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Very Strange.

Since the start of this current patrol, have you enabled/disabled any mods and/or made any changes to SH3Commander (if you are using it).
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Old 05-14-07, 04:16 AM   #2
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Negative on all counts...and I'm not using SH3 Commander.

I don't want to lose this mission as I bagged just over 50,000 tons. Is there any possibility that figure of 50,000 tons is causing SH3 or GWX to throw a wobbly?
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Old 05-14-07, 04:24 AM   #3
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Negative on all counts...

I don't want to lose this mission as I got just over 50,000 tons. Is there any possibility that 50,000 tons is causing SH3 or GWX to throw a wobbly?
No chance at all.

There is one way to fix this but I think you'll have to let this patrol end as dead. After this you can edit a cfg file, I think it's in the patrol.cfg which you'll find in My Documents under your career name. There will be a line in that cfg relating to your patrol status i.e Dead or Alive, depending on the value, you can change it so you are alive again.

I'm sorry I can't be more specific as I'm away from my installation but hopefully, someone will respond with the correct hack.

If it continues to happen after this patrol, I suggest a reinstall after checking the GWX parts with the MD5 mate to make sure none are corrupted.

Oh, BTW. Was this a clean install of GWX over a clean version of SH3 1.4b, all mods removed, SH3 folder in My Documents removed & SH3Cmdr rolled back? Soz, gotta ask. Most common problems are caused by residual files from a previous install.
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Old 05-14-07, 04:28 AM   #4
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Don't flame me for asking but:

Are you surfaced?
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Old 05-14-07, 04:46 AM   #5
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Don't flame me for asking but:

Are you surfaced?

No mate, I'm not one to flame people - and it's a perfectly reasonable question. Yes, I am surfaced.

Danlisa, thanks once again for your willing and helpful advice. I will follow that lead with the cfg file. In regard to GWX, there was no need for an SH3 Commander rollback, and because our hard drive irrecoverably crashed a short time ago, it was a completely clean reinstallation once we got the new hard drive.

Thanks to everyone so far. Please feel free to add more advice...
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Old 05-14-07, 08:19 AM   #6
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Hooray!

Quite strange, but when I went into the patrol and career cfg files as Danlisa suggested, somehow [Patrol 003] was squeezed between two separate lots of [Patrol 002]. I deleted [Patrol 003] and the second [Patrol 002]. In addition, I noticed in both the patrol and career cfg that there was no "Dead" or "Alive" line, but there was a "Finished" line that had "true", whereas all the other similar lines were "false". I took the opportunity to change that line to "false".

Lo and behold, my 2nd patrol showed as a saved patrol at Wilhelmshaven, not "Dead". I am currently in progress in my 3rd mission, having already sunk 24,000 GRT of enemy shipping.

Special thanks to Danlisa , but thanks also to the other contributors.

Cheers,

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Old 05-14-07, 09:29 AM   #7
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Cool.


Now go and sink em all.
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