SH3 freezing at load screen

aluc24 · 01-15-14, 07:20 PM

Hi all,

SH3 just refuses to work anymore. I load up the game with SH3 Commander, try to load a savegame, the load screen appears, the bar sits at the left, like 0.5cm wide, and doesn't move. Tried waiting, but the game doesn't load. Tried different save, tutorials, single missions, museum - nothing loads. The load screen freezes at like 5%.

I have GWX with several mods installed. Not listing them now, since I don't think it's relevant - it worked with these mods before, I didn't change anything for like a week or so.

SH3 Commander is set on automatic rollback. I didn't tinker with files or anything. Yesterday SH3 worked perfectly, and now this...

How can I fix it? I could try disabling mods, but then it would ruin my career save (mid patrol now).

P.S. It doesn't CTD or anything. It stays in the load screen until I ctrl-alt-delete it.

VONHARRIS · 01-16-14, 02:16 AM

Try creating a new career with Commander to see if it works.

If yes , your current career was corrupted somehow and it is lost. It has happened to me as well. In that case delete everything on the career manually to be sure and start all over again.

If no , try running SH3 without commander to check.

Last resort is a complete reinstall after a regisrty clean.

Hope I hepled. Good luck.

BigWalleye · 01-16-14, 11:56 AM

If more than one save shows this problem, then it is not the save that is corrupted, but something in your game files. Best and fastest way to recover is to uninstall SH3 and Commander, completely delete all remaining files (including all saved game files and all unzipped mod files), use a good registry cleaner, and then carefully reinstall everything.

This will lose you all currently saved games. You MIGHT be able to work around this and not remove the save files, but that just might mean having to do the whole uninstall-reinstall process again.

You MIGHT be able to poke around and find what caused this problem. Or, you might spend a lot of time doing troubleshooting and then doing an uninstall and reinstall, without ever finding out what happened in the first place.

If you are like me, then you enjoy playing the game more than you enjoy troubleshooting complex software packages. A complete reinstall gives you the best chance of getting back to playing the game with a minimum of frustration and effort.

scott_c2911 · 01-16-14, 04:14 PM

Ive managed to rescue a career the other day by simply copying the main.cfg file from a backup career into your career found in my documents. Ive had similar problems and did some poking around. The main.cfg file was changed and on opening it it read 000000000 for a single line. It should have your game settings etc in it but they had gone. Repaired the career by copying the one found in the backup folder. This might help you too.

aluc24 · 01-16-14, 07:54 PM

All right, I fixed it. Don't know what exactly was wrong, but here's what I did:

1) Roll back SH3 Commander
2) Use JGSME to uninstall all mods
3) Reinstall them in the same order
4) Launch with Commander.

For some reason, it works now. It means some files affected by mods were corrupted. Don't know why, because I changed nothing in game files for a week or so. But happily no re-install was needed, nor was my career corrupted... Mid-patrol saves worked too.

Thank you all for help

Sailor Steve · 01-16-14, 11:39 PM

You might want to set Commander to 'Auto-Rollback', just in case.

aluc24 · 01-17-14, 08:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You might want to set Commander to 'Auto-Rollback', just in case.

Quote:

Originally Posted by aluc24

SH3 Commander is set on automatic rollback.

. . .

BigWalleye · 01-17-14, 09:46 AM

Please check my posts 10 and 13 on this thread

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...41#post2162741

for a possible explanation of why Auto Rollback is not always a good idea and how it might cause a problem.

Sailor Steve · 01-17-14, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aluc24

. . .

As an alternative you might want to visit my house and kick me a couple of times to jump-start the old noggin...

aluc24 · 01-19-14, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigWalleye

Please check my posts 10 and 13 on this thread

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...41#post2162741

for a possible explanation of why Auto Rollback is not always a good idea and how it might cause a problem.

Thanks. Seems reasonable. I turned it off.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

As an alternative you might want to visit my house and kick me a couple of times to jump-start the old noggin...

It's okay, buddy

01-15-14, 07:20 PM	#1
aluc24 Sailor man Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 48 Downloads: 91 Uploads: 0	SH3 freezing at load screen Hi all, SH3 just refuses to work anymore. I load up the game with SH3 Commander, try to load a savegame, the load screen appears, the bar sits at the left, like 0.5cm wide, and doesn't move. Tried waiting, but the game doesn't load. Tried different save, tutorials, single missions, museum - nothing loads. The load screen freezes at like 5%. I have GWX with several mods installed. Not listing them now, since I don't think it's relevant - it worked with these mods before, I didn't change anything for like a week or so. SH3 Commander is set on automatic rollback. I didn't tinker with files or anything. Yesterday SH3 worked perfectly, and now this... How can I fix it? I could try disabling mods, but then it would ruin my career save (mid patrol now). P.S. It doesn't CTD or anything. It stays in the load screen until I ctrl-alt-delete it.

01-16-14, 04:14 PM	#4
scott_c2911 Engineer Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: West Midlands, Uk Posts: 203 Downloads: 71 Uploads: 0	Ive managed to rescue a career the other day by simply copying the main.cfg file from a backup career into your career found in my documents. Ive had similar problems and did some poking around. The main.cfg file was changed and on opening it it read 000000000 for a single line. It should have your game settings etc in it but they had gone. Repaired the career by copying the one found in the backup folder. This might help you too. __________________ KLt S. Cooksey commanding U-2528 ... .. -. -.- / - .... . -- / .- .-.. .-..

01-16-14, 11:39 PM	#6
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	You might want to set Commander to 'Auto-Rollback', just in case. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-16-14, 02:16 AM	#2
VONHARRIS Konteradmiral Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Greece Posts: 1,992 Downloads: 300 Uploads: 0	Try creating a new career with Commander to see if it works. If yes , your current career was corrupted somehow and it is lost. It has happened to me as well. In that case delete everything on the career manually to be sure and start all over again. If no , try running SH3 without commander to check. Last resort is a complete reinstall after a regisrty clean. Hope I hepled. Good luck.

01-16-14, 11:56 AM	#3
BigWalleye Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: On the Eye-lond, mon! Posts: 1,987 Downloads: 465 Uploads: 0	If more than one save shows this problem, then it is not the save that is corrupted, but something in your game files. Best and fastest way to recover is to uninstall SH3 and Commander, completely delete all remaining files (including all saved game files and all unzipped mod files), use a good registry cleaner, and then carefully reinstall everything. This will lose you all currently saved games. You MIGHT be able to work around this and not remove the save files, but that just might mean having to do the whole uninstall-reinstall process again. You MIGHT be able to poke around and find what caused this problem. Or, you might spend a lot of time doing troubleshooting and then doing an uninstall and reinstall, without ever finding out what happened in the first place. If you are like me, then you enjoy playing the game more than you enjoy troubleshooting complex software packages. A complete reinstall gives you the best chance of getting back to playing the game with a minimum of frustration and effort.

01-16-14, 07:54 PM	#5
aluc24 Sailor man Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 48 Downloads: 91 Uploads: 0	All right, I fixed it. Don't know what exactly was wrong, but here's what I did: 1) Roll back SH3 Commander 2) Use JGSME to uninstall all mods 3) Reinstall them in the same order 4) Launch with Commander. For some reason, it works now. It means some files affected by mods were corrupted. Don't know why, because I changed nothing in game files for a week or so. But happily no re-install was needed, nor was my career corrupted... Mid-patrol saves worked too. Thank you all for help

01-17-14, 09:46 AM	#8
BigWalleye Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: On the Eye-lond, mon! Posts: 1,987 Downloads: 465 Uploads: 0	Please check my posts 10 and 13 on this thread http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...41#post2162741 for a possible explanation of why Auto Rollback is not always a good idea and how it might cause a problem.