Help please: CTD's making me crayzee
 

Hi all

I am having problems with CTD after 30 minutes-or-so gameplay and as a result have spent hours on the forum trying to find a solution. I have tried to match Sober's mod list as closely as possible with my mod soup after all the searching for solutions but to no avail :/\\!!

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

System specs:

Windows 7 64bit
Intel Core i5 M 450 @ 2.4GHz
8 Gig DDR3 ram
ATI mobility radeon HD 5650 (1 gig dedicated)

Installed Mods:

Dynamic Environment SH5 Basemod (realistic version) V2.1
Dynamic Environment SH5 BrighterNights V2.1
Dynamic Environment SH5 Sounds V2.1
Dynamic Environment SH5 Sleet For Winter Campaigns V2.1
Dynamic Environment SH5 Waves (realistic version) V2.1
Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_byTheBeast
#Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_Patch_1_HotFix
Eqp_Upgrades_fix_v1.4 dates by sober Patch V2
FX_Update_0_0_19_ByTheDarkWraith
NewUIs_TDC_7_1_0_ByTheDarkWraith
IRAI_0_0_37_ByTheDarkWraith
KZS Hull wetness for U-Boats + co tower and deck_revised_by_TheDarkWraith
3D_Deck_Splash_FX_v1_0_0_byTheBeast
3D_Deck_Splash_FX_v1_0_0_KZS_Compat_byTheBeast
Realistic ammo amount for AA and deck guns
Critical hits 1.1 Torpedos
MightyFine Crew Mod 1.2.1 Stock faces
TheDarkWraith_DC_Water_Disturbances_v2_0_SH5
OPEN HORIZONS II_full v2
OHII v2 Mission Fix WA
Kriegsmarine Grid Map for MO and TDW UIs by stoianm
OH II Minefield map for TDWs Ui
TDW_Mines_Subnets_Detectable_in_hydro (OH II v2)
Sub_Bubbles_v0_0_3_ byTheBeast

** antilag is used

Again, any help on this will be greatly appreciated as all help is on this forum.:salute:

Kindest Regards

If you really want that minimal, start with getting the updated versions, or better yet, dress down sober's list to include what you want, and then add your DE stuff .. check DE's notes for compatability ...

I have not seen that mod come across any modlist recently .. not sure if it's current, compatible, sortof bug-free or not, etc.

See comments below please :03:


Your computer specs should be okay. I have a slighlty lesser performant system (same OS, CPU i5 430M, 4 GB of RAM, same GPU), and the game runs decently :up:

Okay great, will do thanks again PLJ :D

I've played these mods since last year and didn't really receive as many ctd's (once every few hours) in the previous campaigns as I am doing now in Mare Nostrum... Just a thought :hmmm:

Any particular mod recommendations that you would perhaps replace my mod list with? I realise my mods might be a little outdated now since the last time I downloaded mods was during the later part of last year (shocking I know :88))

Thanks Gap for the comprehensive response with the links for the updates (I dig links :up:) I will test them out again this weekend -hopefully - once my calculus and linear algebra paper is out the way :know:

For a start, have you seen my last post? (we almost clicked the "send" button in the same instant :03:

If I was on you, I would also check Trevally's thread SH5 Mod Guide for Beginners for more information. It contains all you need to know from the beginning, as well as updated links to other useful posts/threads, including sober's, Fifi's and Sjizzle's long mod lists :up:

I'd go with gap's advice over mine any day .. my knowledge is limited. Sober's list + minor adaptations works well for me.

My pleasure DeepWaterDaz, in our own small way here on subsim we follow the ubuntu ethics. I am sure you know what I mean :)

yep, don't ovelook your school work: algebra and trigonometry will come in handy the next time you will plot the net torpedo solution :03:

You learn quickly. Your knowledge of the game is growing every day; if you don't give up, in no time you will know two times more than me. I say it with this music in mind :haha:

Okay, so now that Maths is out of the way (pretty much aced that :know:) I can get back to sorting this out.

Once again I call upon those wiser and with more experience modding SH5 for assistance. On a positive note: The helpfulness of the SubSim community is inspirational:sunny: Prost to you all :Kaleun_Cheers:

I have downloaded all the mod updates that I needed as well as applied TDW's generic patcher v_1_0_149_0 using Sjizzle.gps snapshot as a base and then changed a few things (I do have a backup of vanilla 1.2 files).

But now the problem is that when I try to run SH5 I get this error message :/\\!! I tried rolling back to vanilla 1.2 with mods and the game opens up and I am able to start new career and bunker loads up fine (water is looking amazing so I can see some of the Env mods are active at least):) but I spent the whole day reading the different threads and haven't gotten 'round to testing for CTD's in-game yet (at least without the patcher).

Updated Mod List:

DynEnv v2.9 - 1. Main Mod
DynEnv v2.9 - 3.a Enhanced Visibility (medium)
DynEnv v2.9 - 8.b Wave Mechanics - Gale
DynEnv v2.9 - 12. Sounds
Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_byTheBeast
Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_Patch_1
#Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_Patch_1_HotFix
Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_Patch_1 (available by date) V9 by sober
EUF_UBoat_FX_v0_0_3_ byTheBeast
FX_Update_0_0_22_ByTheDarkWraith
FX_Update_0_0_22__Stock_Torpedoes (modified for torpedoes failure patches)
MightyFine Crew Mod 1.2.1 Stock faces
NewUIs_TDC_7_4_2_ByTheDarkWraith
Sjizzle's - Charts for NewUIs part1_07.06.2013
IRAI_0_0_39_ByTheDarkWraith
IRAI_0_0_39_ByTheDarkWraith_Patch_1
OPEN HORIZONS II_full v2.2
TheDarkWraith_DC_Water_Disturbances_v2_0_SH5
Reworked U-boat Guns (incomplete version)
Critical hits 1.1 Torpedos

This is a nasty one that some people seem to be getting .. afaik, standard solutions to the issue wont work .. havent seen a solve, nor been able to reproduce it.

Last thing I read about it; the altered .exe is not signed, and this is causing the error. (probably)

You could check this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...=ws.10%29.aspx
Disable it if it's enabled and check again if sh5 runs or not.

Do you mean that everything works fine until you try using TDW's patcher? :hmm2:

It's the known error after the .exe is no longer signed due to patching. Not everybody experiences this, havent been able to reproduce the issue either.

This cannot be game related, as the game hasnt started yet .. something is preventing these systems from running the patched .exe

What I am curious to know is: is the problem caused by the patcher pacthcing for some reason the wrong offsets, or by the OS being unable to run a regularly patched executable? :hmmm:

I guess it's due to the verification of digital signatures.. I always disable such services and all is well.. so far..

The later. It's pure OS related. I tested with someone by giving my patched .exe .. same error, runs fine here.

The error is also thrown by the OS, not by SH5.

I think so too .. that's why I posted that article from technet a bit back.