Game crashes regularly, I need your help

[cookiemonste]

Hello people.
I thought this would be easy, but aparently it is not.
Some of you may have read my trouble with Living Silent Hunter, about the game crashing as I try to load the missions, or as I try to play a fresh mission without a savegame. It kept crashing.

I downloaded GWX gold now and the same crap is happening.
At first it worked fine, no problem. Then literally overnight the game started to act up.
First, I tried to change my flotilla and start from a new base and the game crashed int he loading screen.
Restarted the PC and the game, started from Kiel, crashed again.
Time to disable some mods.
It worked! And as I was marching home, the game crashed without warning. What the hell is wrong and how can I fix this?

System specs: http://up.picr.de/28601275dl.jpg

And the mod list: http://up.picr.de/28601276pj.jpg

Anybody who got an idea?

[cookiemonste]

I have a question.
I could play the game without disk from the beginning, so can I skip that step?
And I cannot use the patch, it says I got an "unknown version can cannot update"

[Harm]

To your first question: You have a version without starforce and can skip this step.

Second: see http://www.lsh3.com/dl/v15/LSH3-EDITION-2015-INSTALLATION_DE.pdf page 12.

[cookiemonste]

I've followed the guide step by step, the game still crashes. Normal missions seem to work but the campaign is not. everytime I try to go on a patrol, it crashes to the dekstop.

[hauangua]

I've followed the guide step by step, the game still crashes. Normal missions seem to work but the campaign is not. everytime I try to go on a patrol, it crashes to the dekstop.

Hi cookiemonste
you probe play just with merged campaign no other mod

[cookiemonste]

I did some more tinkering, it seems to work for now.

[cookiemonste]

It definately works now, thanks for the help folks now I can sink some ships in peace. :Kaleun_Cheers:

[Machariel]

It definately works now, thanks for the help folks now I can sink some ships in peace. :Kaleun_Cheers:
What "tinkering" did you do because I have the same problem under Win 7. Can't get even stat the academy missions.

[THEBERBSTER]

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The game crashing to the desktop before loading to the command room is usually a Windows compatibility problem.
First, make sure all your applications SH3.exe > JSGME > SH3Commander > GWX are set to run in Administrator mode.
If the game continues to ctd change Windows 7 to compatibility mode XP.
SH3 generally does not have a problem with Windows 7 where as Windows 10 has to be run in Windows 7 compatibility mode.

[Benzin1973]

Ibe found GWX3 to be probably the most stable of supermods. But i also had some CTDs specially when loading saved games, when i had the merged campaign part enabled (plus game took a lot longer to load).

once i disabled merged campaign CTDs dissapeared almost completely.

AFAIK merged campaign is only needed if youre gonna do inter-ocean missions, so maybe it would be a good idea to disable it?

[cookiemonste]

What "tinkering" did you do because I have the same problem under Win 7. Can't get even stat the academy missions.

I installed Living Silent Hunter because this has all the patches and disabled and enabled mods it came with. The game would crash if I loaded the older campaign from my old Living Silent Hunter save. I created a new one and it works like a charm now. And I enabled the compability mode.

[cookiemonste]

I got 2 more questions:
Is there a way to improve the loading time in Living Silent Hunter?
It takes 3-5 minutes to load one mission in the career.

Some while ago I read about a mod that changes the models/meshes of the boats, can't find it again. So my question is, what mod is that and could you give me the link?

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi cm
It takes 3-5 minutes to load one mission in the career.
I have an SSD and takes over 4 minutes to load a game save.
LSH3-2015 is a big mega mod and the time taken will be dependent on your systems specs.
Peter
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[Niume]

Does having more ram help decreasing loading times?

[JuanLiquid]

Remove Waterstream+Exhaust combi. It always crash in my PC - let me know if that works

[max-peck]

One suggestion for you cookiemonste

I used to regularly get crashes after one hour or so running SH3 plus GWX on a Windows 10 install

I changed the SH3 exe to run in Windows 7 compatibility - since then it has been a lot more stable (maybe one crash per 30 hours)

Might be worth a try? :03:

[cookiemonste]

I haven't got any crash so far since I reinstalled in with Blitzkriegs guide.