CTD help please

[wizardmatt]

Hi guys.
until today my installation has been working fine. ive not played for a coupla days cos ive been too busy surfing subsim :D. i am in my 1st GWX2.1 patrol, and like i said, until today it has been working fine. heres my mods:

GWX2.1
AOTD-AA-Ship-Schleuse-Bugfix
OLCE2
GWX2.1 Mission Orders
GWX2.1 Warning Orders
+ various optional GWX mods (integrated orders, etc)

the problem is, when i go to the messages screen (M), and click on the last message ive received to open it, thats when the game ctd's. this hasnt happened before today and im jiggered if i know what could be causing it. the only significant changes to my machine since i last played are an upgrade from AVG7.5 to 8.0, and a coupla automatic updates. i dont know why that would affect the game tho. ive tried a forum search and, as ever (at least when i try! :p), no luck.
so if any of you have had a simliar problem, or just know what could be causing it, any help would be much appreciated.
cheers :up:

[flag4]

wiz

do you get the 'sorry sh3 has to close' box coz if you do there is info when you click the 'click here' tab.

post the first bit up not the millions of numbers that follow.

some one with more knowledge than me will be along shortly

[wizardmatt]

Cheers flag.
its funny but since i made my 1st post ive broadened my search criteria, as a consequence of which ive spent a fruitless coupla hours trying to find the .txt copy of the error report(s) youve mentioned. ive tried sending them to MS, not sending them to MS, but despite a full search of my HD for the filename given no dice! hmmm, thats MS for you.
never mind tho, ive got the info you did suggest:-

AppName: sh3.exe
ModVer: 1.4.0.1
AppVer: 1.4.0.1
Offset: 000776e6
ModName: sh3.exe

i really dont think its sound/vid/drivers etc, cos until today its been working fine. the only changes have been those mentioned in my 1st post.
thanks in advance guys :up:

[wizardmatt]

well...problem solved, i think.
having found a few other ctd threads in forum search - none of which mentioned my particular problem - i decided i really couldnt be ar5ed reinstalling and all that malarkey, so i just loaded the game and avoided doing the thing that had been causing the crashes...clicking on the last message id received. i just continued on my way, and, as luck would have it, i received a coupla new messages soon after - which i could access and read as normal.
the happy ending is this. about an hour of real time into the game my watch officer (hes already got an iron cross 2nd class, i swear im gonna give him a 1st class when we get home) spotted a ship at long range, in atrocious weather. i headed straight for it to make an ID and it was heading directly away from me. i didnt seem to be catching him that quickly, and a quick sonar check revealed he was indeed heading away at medium speed. even at flank i didnt have the absolute speed to "box" him unseen, so i just thought, bugger it, i'll charge straight up his backside. about 2 hours of realtime later, id got within a respectable range...and he started to zigzag, the swine!
this had an upside tho...it made me certain he was an enemy, so i just chased him down: tubes 1 and 4, fast speed, magnetic pistols set to 1.5m below his keel, 1.5degree spread, launched at 650m range...and a few seconds later, one detonated under his bow, the other amidships (man, my weapons officer is getting a medal too :p). british ore carrier, 8086t, my first kill of GWX2.1! :rock:
i love this game :D
so, like i said, problem apparently solved. i guess it must just have been a problem with that particular message...strange, but not game breaking. any thoughts would still be welcome tho :up: