I'll try that and see if I can find the problem. As for "data/applications\", I'm currently running Sjizzle's "Wolves of the Deep", there doesn't appear to be an "applications" folder within the SH5 "data" directory.

Cheers

Hi Azkaltia

Quite so, different UI to TDW's

Peter

A solution of sorts.
 

Well, as mentioned earlier I was tracking down the reason identical installations of SH5 would not work (i.e not crash or freeze the pc) on one laptop and function perfectly on the other when both ran Windows 10 x64 and the only difference was a newish graphics card (Nvidia Geforce GTX 560M vs GTX 860m).

I seem to have finally narrowed it down to a NVIDA driver problem.

In the most recent NVIDIA driver update (358.87 released early November 2015) something or another was freezing up once the navigation map was being used in SH5 with the GTX 860M. Actually, all the updates of October 2015 had the same problem.

A rollback to a previous NVIDIA driver update from August 2015 ended the problem (update 355.98).

As for what part of the driver or which .dll was mucking it up, I'll leave that to up to the more inquisitive subsimmers to figure out.

I forgot to mention, I figured out it was a driver issue as the NVIDIA 358 driver update was making most if not all graphic intensive gaming impossible. Random other games were crashing too.

Alas CTD's are not limited to SH5 which as we all know is a buggy mess!!!

I met a nasty CTD trying to cross the straights of Gibraltar disabled entry coastal vessels audible in tdw patcher just to squeeze my way in. Time compression was restricted only at 128 to preserve performance. Did save game near the end and at loading it shsim.act ctd.:o:88):huh::/\\!!

Hi moha
This area is known for ctd's as it uses a lot of resources.
Any port area will drop your frame rates down due to the amount of activity in a condensed area.
TC128 is far too high.
You should be looking at TC32 max and be prepared to drop it lower.
Use CTRL+F8 to monitor your frame rate and adjust your TC accordingly.
Peter