career save oddness

ABBAFAN · 08-16-07, 01:43 PM

I have been doing a career from the start of the war until late 1940 and i am up to patrol no 16 or something and now when i load it i get to the sat in port with the band playing bit and then it crashes to desktop with no dialogues or anything.only when i try to load this career.Any ideas what might be wrong?

bigboywooly · 08-16-07, 01:52 PM

Added any mods ?
What does the SH3 error message say ?
Always helps

Heibges · 08-17-07, 01:36 AM

It is scandalous, that in both SH2 & SH3, games in which 2 or 3 months can routinely pass over the course of a single patrol, that the save game feature doesn't work perfectly.

ABBAFAN · 08-18-07, 12:08 PM

no mods whatsoever.just stock version. its a bit silly but at least i can always start another one.

Hanomag · 08-18-07, 01:46 PM

I have been having a similar situation when reloading a saved game ... I crash to desktop.. with no error messages. It really stinks when Im in the middle of a convoy with some nice tonnage under my belt and having to begin anew. I just save often, that way I backtrack til I find a saved game it likes and just keep going.

kurtz · 08-18-07, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hanomag

I have been having a similar situation when reloading a saved game ... I crash to desktop.. with no error messages. It really stinks when Im in the middle of a convoy with some nice tonnage under my belt and having to begin anew. I just save often, that way I backtrack til I find a saved game it likes and just keep going.

Bear in mind that if you save with other ships nearby, or if submerged very odd things can happen.

Jimbuna · 08-18-07, 04:04 PM

This phenomena usually occurs when you save whilst submerged or within 50km of port, or when you add something like a mod mid patrol

ABBAFAN · 08-19-07, 12:28 PM

mine was in port

Heibges · 08-19-07, 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbuna

This phenomena usually occurs when you save whilst submerged or within 50km of port, or when you add something like a mod mid patrol

Most of the times I have had it happen I was out in the middle of the atlantic on the surface. Perhaps there was a ship nearby that I had not detected because I was on the surface.

And all these Save Bugs are in the stock version.

There is another bug that rewrites all the info in all your careers to have most of the info of the first career, that has also been in since stock.

There is also the bug where the game stops seeing your saves. I think this is actually several bugs with the same result, only one of which can be fixed by cutting and pasting your careers folder back and forth between your desktop.

Basically saving at any time other than the end of the mission, was extremely poorly tested.

Shelton · 08-20-07, 05:57 AM

it happen to me when I clicked "Save and Exit"

08-16-07, 01:43 PM	#1
ABBAFAN Commander Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 456 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	career save oddness I have been doing a career from the start of the war until late 1940 and i am up to patrol no 16 or something and now when i load it i get to the sat in port with the band playing bit and then it crashes to desktop with no dialogues or anything.only when i try to load this career.Any ideas what might be wrong? __________________ CHOOSE RFA! LESS GRAFT, MORE PAY.

08-16-07, 01:52 PM	#2
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Added any mods ? What does the SH3 error message say ? Always helps __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

08-17-07, 01:36 AM	#3
Heibges Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San Francisco, California Posts: 1,633 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	It is scandalous, that in both SH2 & SH3, games in which 2 or 3 months can routinely pass over the course of a single patrol, that the save game feature doesn't work perfectly. __________________ U.Kdt.Hdb B. I. 28) This possibility of using the hydrophone to help in detecting surface ships should, however, be restricted to those cases where the submarine is unavoidably compelled to stay below the surface. http://www.hackworth.com/

08-18-07, 12:08 PM	#4
ABBAFAN Commander Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 456 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	no mods whatsoever.just stock version. its a bit silly but at least i can always start another one. __________________ CHOOSE RFA! LESS GRAFT, MORE PAY.

08-18-07, 01:46 PM	#5
Hanomag Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: LI NY Posts: 964 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Same here... I have been having a similar situation when reloading a saved game ... I crash to desktop.. with no error messages. It really stinks when Im in the middle of a convoy with some nice tonnage under my belt and having to begin anew. I just save often, that way I backtrack til I find a saved game it likes and just keep going. __________________ "Only if I can save first..."

08-18-07, 04:04 PM	#7
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,755 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	This phenomena usually occurs when you save whilst submerged or within 50km of port, or when you add something like a mod mid patrol __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-19-07, 12:28 PM	#8
ABBAFAN Commander Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 456 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	mine was in port __________________ CHOOSE RFA! LESS GRAFT, MORE PAY.

08-20-07, 05:57 AM	#10
Shelton Planesman Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 195 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	it happen to me when I clicked "Save and Exit"