Game crashes on startup

[Two-Six]

HI all,
I have been playing SHIII for a while now without problems, I played it yesterday, no problems. I saved and exited out of my 2nd new career and now I can't start the game at all. SH3.exe performs an illegal and I get the MS send/don't send error message...

The game crashes after I esc out out of the starting video and just before the menu screen loads (I think)

I have tried cutting and moving the career folder and moving it back again, and renaming the .wmv files in movies to .wmv.old but still no joy...

I have a few mods like the circular protractor thing in the map screen and the extra ruler and protractor tools. Thats all, and I am using patch 1.4

I have a Nvidea 5900 P4 1.8 512 MB RAM


Has anybody got any ideas.

Two-Six

[Gizzmoe]

SH3.exe performs an illegal and I get the MS send/don't send error message...

Please post more details, it should say something like "SH3.exe performs an illegal operation in <dll file>".

[Two-Six]

Hi,
No, I can't seem to find the MS report file. It has way too much data in it be able to post a rendition of what it says but really it is listing all the "usuall" windows.dll's, and I don't think it will be too helpfull.

However a couple of files associated with Direct 3d seem to feature a couple of times, and the crash seems to happen just before the menu screen loads if that's any help.

[kiwi_2005]

Delete the save game file of that career so all your got is "In base save" then load the game and you should be alright. Sometimes i get this i just delete the last save file.

[Two-Six]

Hi,
If I look in my docs in the SHIII folder, under my current profile Captain Crinsp...I can see the last saves for the mission I was on, there about 9 files, one named .sav for each stage I have saved my mission at.

Are these the files you are talking about? Which ones do I delete?

[Two-Six]

OK, Well I deleted the folder named zero (0) in my new Captain Crinsp folder and that seemed to fix it, I can now use the game with my old captain Two-Six profile....

Humm,
Is there anyway to fix the broken thing in that folder at all?

Also, how do I do the training academy missions with a new profile from scratch? I have done them all now with my old profile and they all show a passed with excellent results....Do they count towards a good start with a new profile?

[Marhkimov]

Once you pass the training exams, you'll never have to pass them again. They are already being counted for all of your careers.