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scar3tactics
06-21-17, 12:28 PM
Greetings,

Just recently got back into SH4 and loving it all over again, but have run into an odd issue that I managed to reproduce, so I thought I'd ask here for answers:

I'm on patrol in the Sea of Japan in August 1943 with a Gato out of Midway. I came across a line merchant at night in rough seas and set up for an attack. With the waves bucking me around the stadimeter is more useless than normal. I'm trying to get a sonar range, so I use the orders bar to ask my sound guy for a check --- SH4 has stopped working, CTD.

Now I've used the sonar to get ranges multiple times, so I wrote it off. Reload the patrol the next day and try again. Sink a couple merchants (even manage to get a sound range from my sonar guy on one of them), when one dark and rough night I again come across a lone merchant. Same scenario, set up, ask for a range, ---- CTD.

Now, I tried to isolate the common factors: Both times it was night, rough waters, and I'm at PD. I ask for range from the orders bar, not by pinging myself. The second time it was a Ryun Maru (name is probably wrong but it's something similar, large fore and aft masts, dazzle camo job)

Mods:
TMO 2.5 and patch
RSRD 5xx and patch
TMO visuals for RSRD
C/D sonar fix
IJN Radar fix
Zero bomb load fix
ISE v3 for TMO/RFB

I should add, I'm also running the LAA patch

Any clue what's going on?

propbeanie
06-21-17, 03:33 PM
Someone more familiar with the game will have to "spy" your mods, because I'm not familiar with a couple of them - but, you could back them off one at a time and try that same vessel with sonar ranging and see if it works. BUT (another "but"?? I'd say something, but I won't), since the ranging worked on one ship, but not another, there may be an issue with the ID of that particular vessel (Type= or Class= line in the MIS file or cfg files). If you put the external camera on, can you get close enough to visually identify the ship yourself? Did you ever get a "lock" or an "ID" in the periscope? If you do, and it didn't CTD, then that's not the issue...

Rockin Robbins
06-22-17, 08:46 AM
The game is looking up that ship, finding nothing and crashing. Not really good error handling routines in SH4. But it does not allow us to ignore errors so that's a good thing!

Aktungbby
07-11-17, 11:03 PM
scar3tactics!:Kaleun_Salute:

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07-12-17, 04:43 AM
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