Game bugs
Renown Issues
The following are stock Silent Hunter III issues the GWX Team is unable to address
 If you upgrade your U-boat before the first patrol of a new career, you may not receive any renown for ships sunk during the first patrol, so you should not upgrade or change anything on your U-boat on your first patrol of a new career before leaving port. Some players report that using <ESC> to end your patrol when close to your base but not necessarily in the harbor itself can avoid this problem.
 If you upgrade your U-boat at the end of the current patrol you may not receive any credit for ships sunk during the patrol, so you should upgrade your U-boat only when you are ashore and about to leave for the next patrol
• Players do not receive any additional renown for returning to base under manual control.
• Players do not receive renown when they damage a ship if the ship later sinks due to storm damage.
Saved Games
• Restoring a game that you saved when your U-boat was submerged can lead to instability. This is a stock Silent Hunter III issue that GWX is unable to address, other than to recommend most strongly that you not save your game while your U-boat is submerged.
• Players who have just one career in stock Silent Hunter III will occasionally find their career has no saved games, even though you successfully saved your most recent game, and the save game files are present in their proper career folder. This is a stock Silent Hunter III behavior and seems to happen when you have deleted the career named after your ―player name‖ and replaced it with a name of your own creation), so the GWX team suggests you create a ―dummy‖ career (e.g., for Leutnant z. S. Fubar) before starting your real career to ensure this does not happen.
If this does happen 1. Find the folder that holds your career, e.g., C:\Documents and Settings\Pablo\My Documents\SH3\data\cfg\Careers\Pablo 2. Append ―x‖ to the filename so it is renamed, for example, ―C:\...\Careers\Pablox‖ 3. Exit and restart Silent Hunter III, then verify if Silent Hunter III can now read the contents of the ―new save game‖ save game: if so, you can rename the career back to its original name. If not, you will need to start a new career.
• Players will occasionally experience the ―Crash Dive of Doom,‖ a known Silent Hunter III bug where your game is saved normally, but when you restart the game, your U-boat starts at the bottom of the ocean and sinks because it is far below crush depth. The workaround is to open the Campaign.LND, Campaign.SCR, and Campaign.RND files in "Notepad" or "Wordpad", change the ―Windspeed=0.000000‖ to ―Windspeed=4‖, and then restart the same save game again.

• Players will sometimes find that Silent Hunter III improperly displays the following message when loading a saved game: ―Cannot load after war is finished.‖ This is due to an intermittent error in stock Silent Hunter III. To correct this problem, go the folder
C:\Documents and Settings\****\My Documents\SH3\data\cfg\Careers\‖Careername,‖ where ―Careername‖ is the name of your saved career. Open the latest ―careers.cfg‖ file, and replace ―true‖ with ―false‖ for each line: Finished=true; <becomes Finished=false> WarOver=true; <becomes WarOver=false>
Gameplay
• There is a bug with the Vorhaltrechner (―deflection calculator,‖ also referred to as the Torpedo Data Computer, or TDC) in stock Silent Hunter III: the TDC does not always recognize when you have adjusted the speed of a steam-powered T I, T I FAT, or T I LUT I torpedo from ―fast‖ or ―medium‖ to ―slow.‖ The workaround is to always left-mouse-click on the torpedo speed selector before leaving the TDC view if you have changed the speed of a torpedo, as this appears to ensure the TDC recognizes the correct torpedo speed settings. You don‘t have to change the speed setting when using this procedure – just click on the ―speed‖ button to ensure the TDC ―accepts‖ the new speed setting