Help, continuous CTD
 

Hello guys, my mod list is
Generic Mod Enabler - v2.6.0.157
[C:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 5\MODS]

Magnum_Opus_v0_0_1
Magnum_Opus_Patch_2
FX_Update_0_0_19_ByTheDarkWraith
NewUIs_TDC_6_8_0_ByTheDarkWraith
NewUIs_TDC_6_8_0_jimimadrids_map_tools
Critical hits 1.1 Torpedos
OPEN HORIZONS II_full v1.4
OHII v1.4 patch1
OH II Campaign Radio Messages v4
And the antilag for smoother performance

Since I installed them i get continuous CTD, sometimes saving, others crusing, under air attacks, no way to play more than ten minutes.:damn:
Is it a mod conflict or maybe the antilag?
Thank you

what is your computer specs ?


and your game is patched to 1.2 ?

Intel core i5, 6 Gb RAM, Nvidia, don´t know exact card, 1Gb video. It was running OK with the stock game.
The game does automatically patch to 1.2, no?. I think it is already patched.

is it steam version or dvd ?

In the main menu take a look at the top right corner - there's a figure - does it say 1.2.0?
If not - run the; C:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 5\Support\GameUpdater\gu.exe

This will get your game upadated to v1.2.0 :up:

To Halface: It is a DVD version.
I am not at home, cannot see the version, but i´ll check
Thanks

Finally yesterday i had 1 hour to play.
Version 1.2.
But it was OK, no CTD. I run in high TC, in 1x, save games.
Cannot understand.....:o
I could play, but i did not find any ship to attack...
I am not going to make any change by the moment

It's quite likely that you'll play for an hour and not run into anything. :) At least it's good that it sounds like your CTD is gone!

CTDs in this game are so infuriatingly random... it drives me mad. It's the only thing about SH5 that really bugs me still, but it seems to be different causes for different people.

I'm half-convinced that something in the SH5 code is just wrong somewhere... but I really hope someone figures it out one day!

I think to many users come on these forums and read about all that mods - check the mod thread and install way too many.

If you read the German Ubi forums - they have about 5 mods that they suggest to people to start them off and it makes everything so much easier.

When issues happen with these 5 mods - everyone has seen the issues before and can quickly point to a fix. I have not yet seen a post there when this is not the case.

Then you get users like Magic who knows all the mods and how they work. When you get the experience that he has - then add as many as you like

I'm almost certain that > 90% of the CTDs are because the user's computer ran out of memory. SH5 is very demanding resource wise. Add mods to it and it can quickly drain all the resources from the computer. This is especially true for those using video cards with lots of memory. Yes it is great that the video card has lots of memory but what people don't know is that the computer 'sets aside' the same amount of system memory for it. So if video card has 1.5GB of memory then your system automatically has 1.5GB less of memory (figuratively). Most users have 4GB installed. Windows uses ~1.5GB so they are down to 2.5GB. Subtract large video card of 1.5GB and they have 1GB left. SH5 will use 1GB very easily and mods will definitely exceed this :yep:

I would say the minimum specs for SH5 modded is 8GB memory and a 64 bit OS. I have 8GB and Win7 64 and nVidia 590GTX video card and have NEVER experienced a CTD at random (I can say I've never experienced any CTD from SH5 so far)

Fascinating. When I finally get a new computer I'll keep that in mind. Thanks, Wizard. :salute:

I agree, no random CTD ever, only due to my mods handling (not thinking) :oops:
RAM is today rather cheap and considering all time and frustration because of these CTDs it's a reasonable option. :up:
(I have 12GB and a Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 GPU)

Hello Romer69,

when I started with SH5 about 3 weeks ago, I had the issue with random CTD's, too. I have the same mods as you and some others. My CTD's were not mod related they were all related to concurrent C++ 2008 Redistributable.

Do you get a Windows error message after a CTD. If yes and the error is related to MSVCR90.dll have a look into your installed programms if you have multiple entries for C++ 2008 Redistributable. If you are running a 64bit Version of Windows you might have at least 2 one with x64 and one with x86 in the name. If you have more entries listed that might be the case.

I have 8Gb of OCZ DDR2 1066 MHz RAM memory and a video card ASUS EAH5870 with 1Gb memory and 64bit Windows 7 operating system, I never experienced any CTD playing SH5