One of various reasons you could be getting a CTD while playing is your computer doesn't have enough access to its memory to play the game. You haven't told us anything about your system except its using Windows 7.
I'll take a long shot and say if you have more than 2 gigs of ram memory, you need to use something like the
"Large Address Aware" fix.
The game uses a lot of resources,
A LOT OF THEM. Graphics is the number one killer of using the ram your system provides. One ship isn't going to hurt your system too much, but getting into a convoy of rendered ships, the system is going to slow down. Unlike the days when the game was first released (March 2007), having additional ram memory is cheap, most computer systems are designed with more than two Gb of memory today. 2Gb was the normal maximum back in 2007. The game wasn't designed to look for additional ram (much like the game didn't expect the numerous types of resolutions/aspect ratios that are available today with the change from 4:3 analog monitors to 16:9 LCD monitors).
There
are ways around getting more ram into play when using a modern system that has more ram than the game was designed for. If your system has more than 2 Gb of memory you'll need to tell this older game to "
go ahead, use more ram, it's available". That's what this little program does, tells the game to use more ram since it's available on the newer computers of today.
Try it and see if it doesn't help. It helped me with a similar system using an older game called "Sid Meiers Railroads". Stopped the CTD's and game slowdowns.
When looking at your mod list, most of them use a lot more memory to display their images than the stock game expects. The "Authentic Flags", "3D Interiors", "Medals Fix for 1.5" (....I'll bet it
not my
U.S. Medals Fix II mod) all use a lot more memory to display their images. If you don't have enough memory to run the mods, or the game keeps your system from accessing the additional memory you have available......you'll have CTD's.
Likewise, I applaud your effort to load your mods by hand, but you had better know what your doing when adding mods to your game like that!! Having a conflict when adding two of the same modified file is going to be easy to do!
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