What to do - CTD (Sonalysts reply - need memory offset)

[Tgio]

My first CTD :cry: (it happens when i push the replay button):

AppName: dangerouswaters.exe
AppVer: 0.1.0.0
ModName: dangerouswaters.exe
ModVer: 0.1.0.1
Offset: 00288986

Cheers!

[N00be]

AppName: dangerouswaters.exe AppVer: 0.1.0.0 ModName: dangerouswaters.exe
ModVer: 0.1.0.0 Offset: 002f40f6

I clicked on set red deck, ctd.

[Sybie]

Hi my wizzards from Sonalyst :)


Vers. 1.00 to 1.03 official patched

DW silently crashes back to desktop as i click on the ok button in

Multiplayer / Host / Configuration / Connections Screen

On the connectionscreen there is nothing to select...maybe there should be something to choose i guess. Only the Cancel and OK Button.

As i click ok the screen, it keeps the same for 1sec. and closes.

No Errorbox!
I also cannot see others games to join.
Out of Gamespy he hosted, I joined...
Multiplayer - Join - Configuration Screen comes up with his ip inserted. The OK Button is not clickable, i first need to click cancel, then reenter the Join Screen,
then clicked OK -> Connections Screen (again nothing to choose) -> OK -> Lobbyscreen with no session avail!

I tried some names of my adaptername in the .ini , maybe they was wrong?

Singleplayergame works flawless, no CTDs so far.

Many Thnx in advance!
Greetz
-Sybie

[HydroShok]

sometimes if im using dynamic locations in the mission editor, then i save and try to play the mission, i get a CTD will loading the map. But after running DW again it works just fine. Only crashes when going from the mission ed to playing the game after saving the mission after having just messed with some dynamic locations.

[Fish]

Hi my wizzards from Sonalyst :)


Vers. 1.00 to 1.03 official patched

DW silently crashes back to desktop as i click on the ok button in

Multiplayer / Host / Configuration / Connections Screen

On the connectionscreen there is nothing to select...maybe there should be something to choose i guess. Only the Cancel and OK Button.

As i click ok the screen, it keeps the same for 1sec. and closes.

No Errorbox!
I also cannot see others games to join.
Out of Gamespy he hosted, I joined...
Multiplayer - Join - Configuration Screen comes up with his ip inserted. The OK Button is not clickable, i first need to click cancel, then reenter the Join Screen,
then clicked OK -> Connections Screen (again nothing to choose) -> OK -> Lobbyscreen with no session avail!

I tried some names of my adaptername in the .ini , maybe they was wrong?

Singleplayergame works flawless, no CTDs so far.

Many Thnx in advance!
Greetz
-Sybie

Sybie, did you try a fresh install?
Ohh, and you could try to play in windowed mode, you should then get a windows error msg.

[Sybie]

hi Fish!

yeaa i tried in all possible resolutions and in windowmode (needed to switch desktop to 16bit color first).

no errorbox!

I also reinstalled the game once after i had the 1.03 beta update running for a while to get the offizial 1.03 a solid ground!

I´ll reinstall again and try in Vers. 1.0 if the hosting procedure fails aswell.

Can u show me a screenshot of your connectionscreen and the screen that follows when YOU host?

Thnx m8 for your time!
-Sybie :hmm:



PS: I´m addicted to this series since 688i from years ago! :D

[Sybie]

Tried with fresh 1.00 build 0352
and it closes at the same point. (host / connection / ok) -> switches the sim off

[Fish]

hi Fish!

yeaa i tried in all possible resolutions and in windowmode (needed to switch desktop to 16bit color first).

no errorbox!

I also reinstalled the game once after i had the 1.03 beta update running for a while to get the offizial 1.03 a solid ground!

I´ll reinstall again and try in Vers. 1.0 if the hosting procedure fails aswell.

Can u show me a screenshot of your connectionscreen and the screen that follows when YOU host?


Connections screen,

http://home.hccnet.nl/wico.p/connections.JPG
Thnx m8 for your time!
-Sybie :hmm:



PS: I´m addicted to this series since 688i from years ago! :D


And the follow up screen,

http://home.hccnet.nl/wico.p/Gameroom.JPG

[Fish]

And a reply from Moose1am on the Sonalysts forum, perhaps it helps you in any way.


I am relatively new to DW but I have been a gamer for over ten years.

Some general things come to my mind when reading about your problem.

1) corrupted download. Did you have any accellerator programs running when you downloaded or installed DW. Shut down any other programs that are running in memory and then reboot. Clear your tmp files before rebooting. Now RE-DOWNLOAD the game.

Uninstall the game completely. Make sure that you also check to make sure that the DW directory is gone after you use the uninstall program. You can also uninstall DW from the Control Panels add/remove programs.

Reboot.

Now take the newly downloaded game and make sure that nothing is running in memory on your computer other than the OS. ie shut down any virus checking programs that run in the background. Shut down any ohter programs before you try to insall any new game. That includes DW.

If you fail to to the above then sometimes you can get a bad install of any game. This may not be true in all things but it's a good general rule to follow when loading up new games.

If you have followed all these suggestions above then I don't know what else to tell you.

End all is a program that can be used to shut other programs down. Or the windows task manager. I generally run ZAP and McAfee. I have to go into each of those programs and shut them down so that they don't start back up when I reboot my system.

Many times when installing a new game these virus checking programs can interfer with a download or the installion of the game.

[Sybie]

Thnx fish!

I checked dxdiag and saw that my DirectPlay8 TCP/IP Service contains errors!

Ill try to reinstall DX and will report!
standby...

.Sybie

[Sybie]

...reinstalled DX engl and german version....the dxdiag shows the same

In the middle is a list of games which use dxplay.
Is your DW Installation showing up here????

here the screenshot->

http://www.htwm.de/rthamm/pix/dx_directplay8_error.gif


Another question concerning the NETWORK ADAPTER ENTRY in the ini file.

Here a shot of my Networksettings...which name should i choose?


http://www.htwm.de/rthamm/pix/networkadapter_which_one_fo.gif

[Fish]

There is something wrong with your Dirextplay as you can see, I hope some one with more knowledge wil come in and help you, els move your problem to the Sonalysts forum.



http://home.hccnet.nl/wico.p/DXdiag.JPG

[Fire_Spy]

Just had two CTD's one whilst playing a mission which I had modified. (the Heli demo mission, I added more subs to hunt and also added the P-3 and made the OHP Driveable) . That crash generated this error report :

AppName: dangerouswaters.exe AppVer: 0.1.0.3 ModName: dangerouswaters.exe
ModVer: 0.1.0.3 Offset: 000a9dee

And today I was mucking about with the mission editor and whilst panning the camera about in the 3d veiw of a ship that was placed it CTD'd and I got this error report.

AppName: dangerouswaters.exe AppVer: 0.1.0.3 ModName: dangerouswaters.exe
ModVer: 0.1.0.3 Offset: 000e40ba

I have not added any mods to the game. my system specs :

AMD 1800+ XP (1.5 Ghz)
512 MB Ram
ATI Radeon 9600 pro (256MB) (driver version 6.1)
Windows XP + SP2

The game runs beautifully except for these CTD's :damn: . Which happen often enough to be annoying. Great Game tho!!

I hope this info helps you to make it even better! :rock:

[Fire_Spy]

this error just happened when I exited the editor. I clicked on exit and it CTD'd.

AppName: dangerouswaters.exe AppVer: 0.1.0.3 ModName: unknown
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0b661daf

Doesnt happen very often. I just thought this time I would post the error report.

[sonar732]

So...from what it looks like, regular missions work fine for you, but whenever you either access the editor, or use an edited mission, it CTD's? :hmm:

[Fire_Spy]

That does seem to be the area which causes the CTD's.

But there might be a session where I am going in and out of the editor as I fix problems with little senario's that I make for myself where it will perform without problems.

I have started to retain the error reports in a text file . not that I have had any since my last post.

I am happy to report that most of the problems I have ecountered with the editor is to try not to place the platforms too far apart.

Any just to recap these CTD's happen either when playing a modified or original mission (so far it hasnt happened when playing the original campaign) and when exiting the editor. And one crash happened inside the editor when I was panning the 3d view around.

[Fire_Spy]

Okay this is an error I have gotten before when playing Bill's RSR campaign . It happens during the convoy escorting mission.

I get about 20-25 mins into the mission and then the game CTD's with this error message :

AppName: dangerouswaters.exe AppVer: 0.1.0.3 ModName: towedarray.dll
ModVer: 0.1.0.0 Offset: 0000635a

I dont know if it is the scenario causing this or what. I havent heard of anyone else reporting it so maybe it is just my machine.

Just before the crash the sonar kept picking up and dropping a passive contact. It did this about 15 times before finally crashing.

Hope this helps. :|\

[swimsalot]

Ok guys need some help.
Been playing for awhile, usually no big problems.
For the last few days, everytime I play my system freezes.
Not a CTD, just freezes, unable to make any entries, ctl+alt+del doesnt work, nothing, must manually reboot.
Typically about 10-15 minutes into a game.
No difference if MP or single, many different maps.
USing 1.03 or LWAMI Mod, same problem.
No other problems with system ,runs for hours without a hiccup.


Specs:
HP LAptop
AMD64 3500
1GB Pc3200 Ram
Radeon Xpress200 GPU
Windows XP SP2

All firewalls, spybots, etc off.
Any ideas, getting frustrated...
Thanks,
Swims

[iborg]

DW was running 100% fine under XP. I installed Vista on a new hard drive and reinstalled DW from the DVD (french boxed edition), applied the 1.04 patch and copied my scenario folder and player specific files.
On Vista DW isnt stable at all. It CTDs whenever I switch to the USNI database for ex.

[goldorak]

I've got the following crash tonight :


appname : dangerouswaters.exe
ModVer : 0.1.0.4
offset : 00238a96
AppVer : 0.1.0.4
ModName : dangerouswaters.exe

[goldorak]

Ok guys need some help.
Been playing for awhile, usually no big problems.
For the last few days, everytime I play my system freezes.
Not a CTD, just freezes, unable to make any entries, ctl+alt+del doesnt work, nothing, must manually reboot.
Typically about 10-15 minutes into a game.
No difference if MP or single, many different maps.
USing 1.03 or LWAMI Mod, same problem.
No other problems with system ,runs for hours without a hiccup.


Specs:
HP LAptop
AMD64 3500
1GB Pc3200 Ram
Radeon Xpress200 GPU
Windows XP SP2

All firewalls, spybots, etc off.
Any ideas, getting frustrated...
Thanks,
Swims

It could be the graphics card.
I had exactly the same sympotms on my old computer (desktop) and the culprit was the graphics card.

[Dr.Sid]

Or temperature. It is hot now in Italy isn't it ? Check if there is not too much dust inside your case. It is very common problem these days around here in Czech Republic. Computers dies like flies. But once you clean it up it's ok.

Sometime you also need to change fans, or at least clean the fan blades. Just little of dust on the fan blades can cause turbulences and the fan will just stir the air, without moving it any much.

[goldorak]

Or temperature. It is hot now in Italy isn't it ? Check if there is not too much dust inside your case. It is very common problem these days around here in Czech Republic. Computers dies like flies. But once you clean it up it's ok.

Sometime you also need to change fans, or at least clean the fan blades. Just little of dust on the fan blades can cause turbulences and the fan will just stir the air, without moving it any much.

No, its not the temperature, my room has air conditionning. ;)
It was the gpu which was defective.
No blue screens, no artifacts in windows but the computer would freeze randomly.
And I had the graphics card tested on another computer and it still continued to freeze randomly.

[Dr.Sid]

Super :up:

[Frying Tiger]

Dr. Sid is right about dust in the case, I have to clean my fans and cards about every six months (even in the winter in New England) or the computer just randomly shuts off with no warning while using high-CPU apps. Was causing me a panic until I figured it out!

[goldorak]

Is this thread still being monitored by S.C.S ? :-?

Last thursday during a multiplayer match, i was playing on the frigate in multistation in fullscreen and some 50 minutes into the game, DW crashed to desktop. :damn: :damn:

Faulting application dangerouswaters.exe,
version 0.1.0.4,
faulting module dangerouswaters.exe,
version 0.1.0.4,
fault address 0x00238a96.


Please make the multistation feature more stable otherwise it is completely useless, since the stations cannot be reassigned to the surviving crew.

[goldorak]

Please SCS fix these damn crashes, I had another one today, was playing in multistation on the frigate and the moment I launched a Harpoon on a link contact the game crashed to desktop.

Faulting application dangerouswaters.exe,
version 0.1.0.4,
faulting module dangerouswaters.exe, version 0.1.0.4,
fault address 0x00238a96.

The crash report has the same address as the last time. This is a bug, it occured twice on the frigate and at the same exact point. Please issue a little patch or something.

[goldorak]

This thread is completely useless since SCS hasn't given an update in what ? At least a year as far as crash reports are concerned. :nope: Nontheless here is another one, always a CTD and always while playing multistation on the frigate.
Can you see a patern emerge here SCS ? :damn: :damn:

Faulting application dangerouswaters.exe,
version 0.1.0.4,
faulting module dangerouswaters.exe,
version 0.1.0.4,
fault address 0x00258c4c.

the game was played using lwami mod 3.08

[OneTinSoldier]

You're not alone goldorak. I just had the game crash on me after playing for about four hours in singleplayer, so I don't think it's just multiplayer multistation that's a problem.

I was using LWAMI 3.08 and playing 'Against All Odds' scenario downloaded from Subguru. Things got very heated... I fired three torps at Kusnetsov carrier that was VERY close by at 279 degrees. Torps set to enable at 200 yards. They enabled before they even finished making their 180 degree turn. 3 explosions but I don't know if they did anything to the carrier or not, didn't seem like they did but I wasn't able to watch because I was busy firing a slavo of 6 TASM's with a Harpoon thrown in from tube 3 at the Kirov(all were shot down). I ordered depth of 526 feet(i was at periscope depth, layer at about 318 feet) and then increased speed to 5 knots after my depth had dropped a little. Torps were soon fired at me from 2 different directions. I ordered depth to 756 feet and increased speed to 16 knots. Dropped Passive decoy. I was also turning to the South. Ordered speed to 22 knots. More torps were fired at me(might have been from a third bearing, not sure) and I was receiving pings from distant torp. Dropped Active decoy and it was fairly soon thereafter that the game crashed.


This thread is completely useless since SCS hasn't given an update in what ? At least a year as far as crash reports are concerned.

By looking around the forum here I can tell that the game was no longer being supported quite some time ago, so I don't expect any patches. However, as incredible as this sim/game is, it is disappointing that this kind of thing wasn't fixed while it was being supported.

I also tend to think that we won't being seeing another game from S.C.S. because I don't think DW sold nearly as well as they wanted/hoped for. It's too bad as I do think this is an incredible game! And the multiplayer multistation sounds like it's an awesome feature!! I look forward to trying out some multiplayer in the near future. While I find the graphics to be acceptable I can't help but wonder if the game would have done a lot better if it had a really really good graphics engine, like the Silent Hunter series.

Regards

[flying-kane]

Hey all,

i bought the game 3 days ago (german version, version 1.04), an excellent game so far, but i got a problem with the P-3 Orion. When i change to F7 position (Camera: LLTV, normal...), it happens. I extend the camera and choose one of the cameramodes -->> CTD! In this way, this position is totally useless to me. Any advices what i can do? Sometimes this happens on periscope too!

Things i tried:

First one: i used windowed mode -> CTD!
Second one: start game -> change to desktop (alt +tab), come back to game then it works, but only for one cameramode. When i change to another mode -> CTD!

I hope you guys can help or give me some hints, thx!!

my systemspecs

2GB DDR2 RAM 800MHz
E6300 @ 3,1GHz
HD4850 512MB
Gigabyte GA965P-DS3

[goldorak]

You can try using different set of drivers for your video card.
Sometimes it helps.

[Blacklight]

It definitely sounds like you're having a driver problem. :hmmm:

Luckily, I've never had a CTD wit Dangerous Waters. It's been super stable for me for each of the platforms.

[flying-kane]

Sometimes the camera on P3 works fine and then i start a new mission: CTD.

I will try the tip with the videodrivers, thx.

[flying-kane]

Hey again,

i tried several video drivers, vsync and low settings, the result is the same.
It's crap playing the game without the F7 station in P3 and periscope in subs.:down:

Can i expect help from the publisher or sonalyst?

Thx for your answers.

[goldorak]

Hey again,

i tried several video drivers, vsync and low settings, the result is the same.
It's crap playing the game without the F7 station in P3 and periscope in subs.:down:

Can i expect help from the publisher or sonalyst?

Thx for your answers.


No you cannot expect help either from Sonalysts or from the Publisher since this game is not supported anymore.
What you're experiencing with he game is very strange. I had ATI and Nvida cards (Ati X800 gto, Ati x1950 pro, Nvidia 7900gs and 9800gtx+) and while non of them has ever given me a crash free experience, you are definitely getting to many CTDs.
I had at one time, crashes every time I launched missiles from the frigate. Other were getting crashes using high frequency sonar (never happened to me) etc...
So try using an old driver (old as in several months old maybe go as far as last year, november or december 2008 catalyst would be good).

[Blacklight]

The only thing that ever CTD'd on me for Dangerous Waters was sometimes (very rarely) exiting out of the mission editor.
Am I the only person who's had a pretty much crash free existance with DW ? :DL

How many monitors do you have ? Sometimes some games don't like it when you have two monitors up and running (I speak from experience). You may want to try altering your in game video settings and or turning on/off certain sound settings too. Video or sound card drivers can do this stuff. I know my sound gets all choppy and crackly when I have 3D sound enabled.

I dunno. It's an odd problem you're having. It still sounds driver related to me.

[flying-kane]

After i tried all the graphics stuff, i turned off all sounds -> stable now.
So i turned the soundfeatures on, step by step and found out the normal sound setting is the prob. 3D sound and all the other stuff works for me.
I updated my sound drivers but nothing changed (Realtek ALC883 OnBoard).
A real soundcard will do the job, maybe.

[ZBrisk]

Just bought this game, can't even get through a mission without constant CTDs :/

AppName: dangerouswaters.exe
AppVer: 0.1.0.4
ModName: dangerouswaters.exe
ModVer: 0.1.0.4
Offset: 000d0318

No sound or graphic setting changes this. Tends to happen using the periscope in sub, but many other times as well. Also the music gets really choppy.

[capterwan]

Hi there !

I've just discovered this game a week ago and i have to admit, Crashes is very frustrating ! (what is CTD ? :p)

Scs Dangerous Waters random crash in Nav Map, Periscope or Camera turret in the P3-C (the last one was practically ever)

I tried all i could do, disable sound, disable effects, small resolution and so on... oh yes, i worked with 800px rez with all things disabled :p not funny

A last, i found this thread, and tried the video driver solution.

I was on catalyst 10.2, and now back to 9.4 (the first for my GPU)

Now it works fine :p full def, max details, that's very cool

My specs : A MacPro 2x2 xeon, Windows Xp Sp3 (obviously) and a ATI 4890 graphics

As for all guys who, i see them, asks why i play on a mac, i answer that i have to work too, on mac. And Dangerous waters does not work under fusion or parallels.

Anyway, good jobs all, and thank you very much ! Set Sails !

[Dr.Sid]

CTD = crash to desktop.

[Radio]

Fwiw, I tried all the tricks and even tried and applied the DEP (Data Exception Prevention) trick that works for most old Windows games and even that did not work. The only thing that helps a bit is to simply not use time acceleration.