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Originally Posted by propbeanie
It sounds like you have your game folders set-up fine, with the Stock game and the KC modded game in their own folders inside of your SubSims folder. However, what about your Save folder ("C:\Users \UserName \Documents \SH3" by default)?? Did you use MultiSH3 to create separate folders for those two installs?? Such that the stock game uses "SH3", and the KC game uses say "XKC" or similar?? That gives the two game versions their own data space for the changes made with KC... ?? If not, then run MultiSH3 from the KC folder, and give you KC version its own Save folder. Then start your new KC career or any other aspects of the mod. Let us know this detail please.
Otherwise, I've gun the game several times now, and Barnham does fine. One thing to remember about the SH3 game, is that you must treat each menu choice of Museum, Sub School, Single Missions, and Career as separate "modes" of the game. If you run one of those "modes" and want to run another, you should exit the game so that it clears its "buffers", then start the game again and use the next "mode". Otherwise, you can also end up with CTDs from the game running out of memory to use, or whatever happens to the poor, confused game engine...
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Thanks propbeanie. Yup, as I mentioned, KCE has its own save folder...named "KC3". When I encountered this problem, I deleted the entire "KC3" save folder, restarted the program and ran the Naval Academy missions again to make sure the game was working and the "KC3" save folder was "clean". The baseline, stock SH3 game is installed but actually doesn't even have a "save" folder; I haven't run the "vanilla" game on this machine. I can't imagine that would have anything to do with the problem, but maybe I'll run it to create the "SH3" save folder and see if that makes a difference.
In the meantime, I cranked up my good old (14 years old) Alienware Area 51 with Windows 7 (upgraded with a GT 1060 Graphics card), plugged it into the router and downloaded and installed KCE. All good, no problems at all, except I could not install nvidiaProfileInspector...something about an old version of net framework that can't be updated with Windows 7 OS, whatever!
But luckily, I have an old copy of the NVIDIA 3D settings to use for SH sims and those settings are much the same as the KC.nip settings, which I printed out for comparison, when I did the full KCE installation on the new machine.
So, I ran KCE on the old Area 51 and it works perfectly, looks great. No problems with CTD either; ran both "Barham" and "Courageous" twice already and not a glitch with either of them or with the Naval Academy missions. I'm just guessing, but I wonder if there is something in "Barham" that does not sit well with Windows 11 on the new machine.
If I have to live with it that might not be a problem; I'm just wondering if whatever is causing that CTD could rear its ugly head and crash a career down the road a little bit. Guess I'll just have to wait and see.
Thanks again though.