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Originally Posted by ElAurens

Well gents, I think this will be the end of my time with SH4. I have a ton of time invested in this career, and now it ends 250 nm WSW of Midway because a simple game function crashes me to desktop every freaking time. A simple bloody game save, the first one of this patrol.

And yes, I was on the surface, and no I was not in time compression. None of those things should matter in any case.

I have tried to stick with it and play around the problems with this sim, but you know what? Life is too short to put up with a POS this big.

My only regret is that UBI got my money, and it's too late to get it back.

I had this problem after about 2 weeks of play with the game. Have found nothing that works. Have given up. Its the sort of bug that should never have made it to release....but thats an old record now im sure.

I had that problem with SH3 as well .

@ Major Johnson - thank you. Yes, I'm aware of that tip - I've been playing games for 25 years now, so I do know quite a few tips and tricks to optimize my rig and/or to make a game more stable. Tried that, even though I don't have fps issues on my Dual core /w 2 GB RAM rig. What did help with the random ctd's in my case was setting the sh4.exe affinity to one core instead of two.

I still think it's a problem specific to SH4, because I'm playing some other games that are known to be bigger memory eaters / problem makers than SH$ (Oblivion, Gothic 3) and those work smoothly on my rig.

Anyway, bottom line for the incident described - I tried loading all saves from the patrol in question, and for every one of them when attempting to dock I got a CTD. I got to the autosaves (onleavingbase and oneneteringbase), loade, started a patrol and immediately ended it - boom, CTD. After loading a save game from the patrol just previous to this buggy one, and finishing it again, all went well. So it would seem that the game screwed up writing some files after ending my last patrol.

I don't know why it happened, I have no explanation for it (nor for the copy protection acting up afterwards like it did), and anyway I see from the forum that I've been quite blessed with a relatively trouble-free gaming experience. So I'm not giving up on SH4 :rock: