Bad Product
 

Got the patch, installed it. Got the latest graphic drivers, installed them. Still going down for no apparent reason during a patrol off the Marians. Sinking 2 passenger/troop carriers, diving to 70 mtrs and then......straight to the celler.
Maybe this Silent Hunter 4 is just a bad product!!??

I had some trouble with SH4 too in the start. CTDs and radar not working after 1.2 was the two biggest gripes. That and repeating missions.

It all got fixed by uninstalling the game completely, install latest drivers for my nVidia card, reinstall the game, reboot, install patch 1.1, reboot, then patch 1.2 and a last reboot. No more CTDs, no more repeating missions. Then finally installing the Flavoured to Taste mod, and presto, functioning radar.

I'm all happy now :)

Happy happy happy :sunny:

Now I just need to get my ISP to fix my line. I get constant disconnects at a rate of at least once every second hour. Often significantly shorter intervals. Have ruined my online gaming fun (CoD2 & BF2). Get that problem sorted, and I'll set sail online as well :)

Seems to be a domino effect problem with bulkhead damage.
I the bulkhead has been damaged, but repaired in the same mission - it would seem like the integrity of the ship is a lot weaker.

See this post:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=113483

Still workin it!!!!
 

Regarding my freezes with version 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.


DragonRR1s suggestions:

Have you checked that your graphics card fan is running normally and is clean. You could also try checking that the heat sinks haven't warped.

Yes my nVidia 6800 was given a tender cleaning and caress fest. All case fans were dusted.:hmm:


Another suggestion - run Prime95 on a torture test for 4+ hours.. Ideally overnight. Any lockups or errors will be usually caused by CPU overheating although sometimes ram or mainboard

Did so. Puter came through without a single missed digit.:rock:

7Enigmas suggestion:

After that run 3dmark01 for several hours as well. …while 3dmark01 will torture your video card.

Could not find 3dmark01 but got the latest 3dmark06 and ...
I got the same freeze I get with SHIV. :huh: Click run torture test followed by
hit reset button on puter. :x Ordered a slightly better card with 256mb of vid ram. hope that will do it. Lets see. game 50.00 + bucks and new sound card 40.00 ish bucks and new vid card for 130.00 bucks(enroute). So far SHIV has cost me 220.00 bucks and all I can do is dink around in sub school. :nope:

Thanks for your help though.

Well.. on the bright side.. At least you have found it what's wrong (well 99%) anyway :)

Did you ever overclock your video card or was it overclocked when you were playing SH4? If so back the OC down to get stable performance and try again. If stock, you can do a couple of things (while waiting for your new card to arrive).

1. remove the fan and reapply thermal paste to the chip and memory modules

2. make sure any auxillary power connectors are fully connected (6800GT should have 1, at least mine does)

Basically if 3dMark is crashing your computer its likely one of 2 things:

1. video card (due to overheating)

2. power supply

It's very possible that your power supply could be crapping out which would cause these crashes in game. Hopefully when you get your new card everything works perfectly, if it doesn't, you might just have one more purchase to get this game going....:up:

:huh: :doh: :damn: :dead:

No freezes now!!!!
 

So sorry to hear that man.

You get the crash when you try to load a new campaign? I had your symptoms when I was trying to load a savegame in a campaign but not from a new one. You have a fresh install with the 1.2 patch correct? And no mods? And turned off all special sound/graphic effects?

:oops: Can't I at least keep the green button mod?

I'll check this out.

Thanks.

I may have an answer for you. I had the same problem and had to fool with my NVIDIA. What is your new video card make and model?

Hey this plays nice !!!
 

ATI Radeon 1650. 256MB Vid Ram. ...and no freezes.

@7Enigma : :lol: It seems that the MODs were causeing the crashes when I attempted to play the career or war patrols. Thanks for your help. :up:

Glad to hear everything worked out. And look on the bright side, you now have a nicer video card for running SH4!