I've played SHIV 1.5 with and without MODs for 2 years and over that time experienced CTDs rarely but "bad saves" more. As for CTDs I've learned two things. Most likely it is caused by conflicting MODs, or MOD soup as someone else coined. The process to discover the conflicts is somewhat laboriuos of adding one at a time, only with JSGME, running for awhile until satisfied. Keep a clean copy of SHIV available, copy it to a new folder under your root (C\), then add MODs to it one at a time in order suggested by the authors. Another possibility is overheating in your rig. I don't know how likely this one is but I have "cleaned out" the insides of my tower more than once in hopes there is validity to this. I've been running with TMO 2.5 for a couple of months plus a set of MODs I like (and trust) with remarkable stability. I recently had three "bad saves" ( couldn't reload from any of them, disc I/O stopped, SHIV unresponsive) but was able to reload from previous Saves. I still have no idea what causes this but my latest theory is overheating somewhere in my rig, video adapter, memory, HD, who knows as I had been playing for few hours before these saves. A day later, all runs well. And, I still Save often, surfaced, submerged, with other ships around,etc, and have only had this one instance recently.
Hope this can help you.
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