Thanks for the input, guys.
I was pretty sure the corrupted save issue usually crashed things during loading and not once you were already in there playing, and I'm pretty sure that's not the issue here anyway since this problem seems to occur at roughly the same point in every career - 3rd patrol, running NW through the Nordsee, mid to late October 1939.
W/r/t all the mods, I already went through the process of enabling them one at a time in various combinations before I started this career with the combination I liked most that worked. Plus there's the fact that the exact same combinations will work absolutely fine for many sessions of play over the first two patrols of several successive careers. Then I hit roughly the same point in time/location during gameplay and can't get past it.
I honestly don't think it's a hardware/overheating issue either, especially considering that I sometimes have the game up and running for 7-8 hours with no issues but the Patrol 3 CTD will happen even if the computer's only been on long enough to boot everything up and load the game, lol.
One thing I thought of this morning is that I do use the Static settings.cfg in Commander to apply some date-specific edits to the basic.cfg file, and maybe there's something there that's causing a problem with the date range that I just happen to be hitting each time I get to patrol #3. I will take a look at that when I can and maybe try putting back the original file and reload and see if the problem's still there. Altho IIRC I had this problem before I edited the file, so who knows?
Probably will not get a chance to try anything for the next couple of days but when I do I will definitely try to make a note of where/when I am in the game when this occurs since that seems to be one of the elements that is roughly the same in most instances of this issue. With that in mind anything related to this time/location seems to be the logical place to start.
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