IMPORTANT TIP FOR A GOOD CAREER START AND SAVE GAME LOADINGS:
As usual, choose name, flotilla, start date, sub number...and launch.
Make sure the starting year & flotilla correspond well before clicking start
Then DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING to your U Boat crew and equipment for first mission!! Not even emblem or torpedoes! Leave it stock and start your first mission like that.
(Only realism can be changed of course)
Leave harbor as usual, and once in high seas where nobody is around, save and exit game FROM NAV MAP (always)
Back to your desktop, open Commander and try to update your personal file
It should open this window on your computer
If not there is a problem (and even if yes follow the steps!) —->go to your Documents/SH3/Data/Cfg/Careers/XXName and open your Patrol_0.Cfg
You should see the start dates hour & minutes there:
If not, open your Documents/SH3/Data/Cfg/Careers/XXName/Folder0/XX.Clg file, and you will find there the date hours minutes to past in your Patrol_0.Cfg (so your file has correct date hours minutes instead of nothing)
Then open your Documents/SH3/Data/Cfg/Careers/XXName and open your Careers_0.Cfg, and under your captain name, make sure the informations correspond to the Clg ones
To resume, you should see in Patrol_0 & Careers_0 files, your starting dates hours etc!
Once all this checked, your Commander personal file should work correctly, and can launch your last save and keep going your first mission...it should be 100% fine for the rest of this career
The old SH3 known bug for career saves should be turned around.