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Originally Posted by Didd
If bcdedit works for you on XP, fine. For me, however bcdedit doesn't exist on my version of XP and I had to set this up in the boot.ini file as shown below:
Also afterwards, I still had some random CTD issues, and although I'm not 100% certain yet, adding the envgold environment mod after magnum opus seems to have cured it, but I need to do more testing to be sure. So maybe environment mod 5.0 is still causing some ctd's on some systems.
Incidentally, I changed the userva=2560 to 3072, but this didn't have any effect on the CTDs.
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Just in case anybody else is having similar problems to me, I'd like to update this post
I have been having problems with random CTDs and random black screen lock-ups where hitting the reset button to reboot was the only way out. All of this was happening after installing MO (coincidentally as it turns out). To cut a long story of several frustating weeks short, I finally removed all mods and was still having problems. I re-installed SH5 after wiping the system of any residual traces of SH5, the launcher and old savegames - no improvement.
Finally I realised that I had enabled the above switch (with a line in the boot.ini as shown above) shortly after MO to re-instate missing harbour walls etc. I thought I'd try running without the switch for what it's worth. Surprisingly all was now stable. Enabled MO again - still stable.
I have subsequently re-enabled the 3GB switch by duplicating all the previous switches and simply adding the 3GB switch at the end. The relevant part of my boot.ini now looks like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windo ws XP Professional w/3GB" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer /3GB /Userva=2560
I don't claim to understand what I'm doing, but it has fixed the problem....so far!
Now to start adding a few more mods.......
Edit: Wrong!!!! Had 3 random CTDs last night - will try running without 3GB switch enabled. I'm about to delete this turd off my system.