Problem : saved games lost in career

[kapi kerstmann]

Hey,

I recently tried to reinstall SH3 again after having given it a break for a year or two. I entered good old single player career mode and had a lot of fun.

Just now something weird happened. When I try to load a game there is an error message (that I did not read carefully) and the game crashes. Upon restarting the game it seems that the career is still there but there are not any save games. When I check the C://documents and settings/[user]/my documents/SH3 folder I can find what seem to be save games. I backupped these just to be sure.

I knew that when I reinstalled it before this problem occurred that my previous save games where still all there and accessible from within the game itself, so I tried to repair the installation via the SH3 uninstaller and ultimately I completely uninstalled the game and reinstalled the game. Ofcourse without opting for rmoving the save games. I restarted computer after each and every repair / uninstall / reinstall. Nothing works, the career is still empty. Are there any advises that you can provide? I would be so happy to continue with my career again in which I invested for about 30 hours easily already.

Thanks in advance.

-Kapi K

[Hari123]

Hello!

I had the some problem some time ago and I found out this happens when you have 2 career profiles running. I deleted one profile and finally I saw my saved games.

[Pisces]

Rename the folder that has your Commander's name. Just add an underscore to it or something, doesn't matter what. The savegames should become visible again in the game.

[kapi kerstmann]

Thanks for the replies but so far there is no resolution.

I have only 1 campaign running in the game.

I tried the renaming of the folder several times. What happens is that in the game for a moment there are 2 campaigns. Often the 'old' name disappears again when going from one screen to the other. There is not any campaign with save games though. I tried restarts of the game / computer a few times.

One time I had 2 campaigns with about the same name. I deleted one and it seemed to be the one containing the save games on my hard disk. After that I copy-pasted my backup of those files in the campaign folder again of my windows system. Issue still persists.

Any further suggestions

-K K

[kapi kerstmann]

Are there not any other suggestions anyone can provide? Sorry for the bump but I guess there must be something I am hopelessly missing and any sort of help is appreciated.

[desertstriker]

did you have any megamods before?

[kapi kerstmann]

I did not install any mods whatsoever and play the game via fully legal DVD ROM.

[desertstriker]

ok well that rules that out. sorry

[Arnold]

Originally Posted by kapi kerstmann

I did not install any mods whatsoever and play the game via fully legal DVD ROM.

It may be a problem with the DVD version. I had a DVD version and it did not work well for me, so I downloaded SH3 via Ubisoft. It took five hours , due to my slow internet connection, yet, it has run well for me.
Saving a career is tricky. I have to remember to double-click to properly save the game. When I save a game, I always check to make sure that whatever I wrote (usually I type in the grid letters and numbers where my boat is at) has been saved.