Oh dear. Several (game) days after my last post, yet another CTD despite the modified minefield#8 reloaded in port. And, once again, the immediate cause was a surface sighting of a warship, followed by a crash after pressing 'U' for the UZO.
All my CTDs appear to have occurred after sighting an enemy warship (detected by crew on the surface with the usual attack-dive-continue options, or previously by hydrophones). I don't know which warship, because the crash occurs before I see it. However, class C destroyers generally do not cause the crash (unless one of them is, for some reason, a rogue).
After looking in the Mission Editor, though, the only warships that cross my test patrol line 100 km off-shore between Hull and Hartlepool are, in fact, class C destroyers.
Since the problem of this CTD is still up in the air, I can only suggest again that the original modders who created the warship routes and the minefields should separately give their creations extensive testing (without any other mods present) by patrols as stated above over a protracted period - and examining with UZO every warship reported in sight.
And definitely minefield#8 should have its density set well below 100!
Last moment addition - sorry, Beery, I've only just seen your suggestion of saving every few minutes. But I've found it very difficult to repeat a CTD even when re-running a fixed patrol plot. The crashes don't recur at the same point of the plot.
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