ARRGGHH My game is crashing!!

[suitednate]

Started a career in fall 1939 and made it to Dec 1940. IMO, have had a very successfuly career so far. Way ahead of all the aces, sank the HMS Rodney, etc. 88% realism. After going through the SH3 Commander options and getting into the game and completing my loadout, I start the patrol and it CTDs late in the loading process. Happened twice in a row. very frustrating.:/\\!!

Before starting this career i had done a complete resintall of the game and all the mods below. Been running this career with no problems at all up until now. I MIGHT have had a CTD when trying to operate near Dunkirk during this career but I can't remember for sure. That might have been a different career. Anyone have any ideas or help?

thanks a bunch



FYI I'm running GWX with sh3 commander.

Other mods include:
Conus widescreen
TDW ship plane fire damage
Randomized searchlights
Lifeboat and debris
Torpedo damage final
DepthChargeShake
MEP environment mod and MEP sensors
Hsie patch
Stiebler patch
4 gig patch as well


System specs:

HP ProBook 4540s
Windows 7 (32-bit operating system)
Intel core I5 @ 2.5 Ghz
4 GB RAM.(it says 2.88 GB usable?)
Intel HD graphics 4000

[scott_c2911]

It sounds like a corrupt save to me if no mods have been applied recently. Try to load the save before the one that crashes. You will lose the latest save however. If you have applied a mod between your last stable save and the ctd then disable it and try again. Failing that disable each mod in turn until stability is restored. Read gwx manual on the best practice for saving games its allowed me to reach august 44 with few problems

[MLGathome]

Solution 2 in this thread worked for me.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=166283

Greetings, Marcel

[suitednate]

Tried all of these and nothing seems to work. Previously loaded "in mission" saves work.....at one point i even went back and started the previous patrol from scratch......do the patrol.....then I get back to port and can't start the next patrol and it CTDs again.

On another note I just decided to say "screw it" and start a whole new career at the same date where the other one left off (Dec '40) and THAT crashed in the same manner as well. So now I am really :/\\!!

I then went back and tried to start a new career in Sept '39 and it works......

Is this something to do with the date?

[suitednate]

Ok i nailed down the problem. It's attributed to the Steibler Add-on Patch because when I disabled that mod then the game would work after the dates in questioned mentioned in my earlier posts. I can't find anything date specific though in this patch. Can anyone help?

[suitednate]

I actually found the problem. The information for the CAM ship in the Steibler add on patch was making the game crash after the date I mentioned before. I didn't have that selected as an option to add in the options selector anyways. So i just removed all the CAM ship information from the mod itself and it worked. all good for now.........

[banryu79]

I actually found the problem. The information for the CAM ship in the Steibler add on patch was making the game crash after the date I mentioned before. I didn't have that selected as an option to add in the options selector anyways. So i just removed all the CAM ship information from the mod itself and it worked. all good for now.........
I think it will be a good idea if you can give this information directly to Steibler via PM (if he still frequent the forum) or posting in a related thread.
Posting it only here will be of limited utility for others subsimmers :)
Anyway, thank you for posting your findings. :up: