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Originally Posted by joefremont
Hi All,
I have noticed a problem that when my ship detects a fast convoy that will inevitably result in SH4 crashing. Let me describe it.
I am sailing along on patrol and I notice in the radar a fast convoy, looks like just four destroyers in a diamond shape formation. I have looked at it using the Next Unit key and some times I see 4 ships, some time 8, sometimes it looks like the whole destroyer fleet if the IJN, even though the radar only shows 4. From that point on the game won't go beyond x64 of time acceleration and when I try to reload or leave the game SH4 will CTD.
Has anyone else see this problem and if so is there a solution?
I am using the steam downloaded SH4 + U-Boat missions. No MODS.
My system is a i7-3610QM with 8gb memory, win7 64bit HP.
AMD Radion 7970m.
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I am not familiar with the steam versions of the game as I bought mine from Direct2Drive years ago, but I suspect that you need the 4GB patch to sh4.exe to make the program use all that memory you have. As I recall, weird crashes like this are due to memory allocation issues as SH4 is a bit of a memory hog, both conventionally and graphically. However, because Steam modifies exe files to hunt for Steam upon launch, I do not know how to modify the exe without breaking the game for Steam...one of the many reasons why I would not recommend anyone by the SH games from Steam.