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Originally Posted by Prof
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Originally Posted by Harmor
Yup, same here. The game is very unstable and there are tons of situations when it will simply crash to desktop for no particular reason, mostly however when other ships are around. Heck, I steer clear off Destroyers ever since a few times it happened that when a DD was actually searching for me, the game would CTD. "SH 4 exe has encountered a problem and has to be shut down" is perhaps the most frequent message I get from my PC ever since I installed the game.
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I had frequent CTDs when gaming with my new PC that I never had with my old system. I solved the problem by going into the BIOS and forcing the RAM timings and voltages to those specified by the manufacturer. Some games were more prone to CTD than others before I fixed the RAM. |
I don't think that the majority of people with CTDs in SH4 have a problem with RAM settings but this is generally a very valid point. The auto detect settings for many ram types - especially DDR2 - apply a lower voltage than actually recommended by the manufacturer especially with high spec RAM (OCZ Platinum PC2 6400 for example). This can cause blue screen crashes, CTDs and even file corruption.
A lot of people complain that they don't have problems with X number of games but game Y CTDs or makes their PC reboot and therefore the game is at fault. It's quite common that game Y has just highlighted a problem which has been there all along especially when only a small number of users experience the issue.
I would strongly recommend memtest86 -
http://www.memtest.org/ for anyone mildly suspicious of their hardware. RAM which has a major fault or which is very undervoltage will often show up within 5 mins or so but I've seen systems with RAM faults run Memtest for 4 or more hours before finally erroring. I tend to run Memtest on suspect systems for 24hrs.
With SH4 I have had one (repeatable) CTD where everytime I switched to an external view after finishing off a couple of freighters with the deck gun the game would CTD, usually between 2 and 10 secs after switching view. I do know that there were a couple of destroyers around at the time. I went back to base using the map view only. On the way back I experienced the massive lag with radio messages but no CTDs.