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Vacillator · 05-09-07, 03:56 AM

After an hour and a half infiltrating a convoy with at least 5 escorts, I hit two whale factory ships with 2 torps each and a large merch with my bow tube. I then went to 100 metres depth, silent running at 1kt. One of the escorts pinged me and dropped three lots of depth charges but they were quite far away perhaps due to a couple of course changes. The two whalers then sank (for a nice 25000+ tons).

Then the cheated feeling! The escort dropped a fourth set of charges and they exploded some distance away, but just then my screen locked and my sound looped. I could get out of SH3 using the Windows key so I brought up the Task Manager. This showed SH3 at 0.9Gig memory use and that it was not responding. It also said I was at 100% CPU use with a page file of 1.28Gig (I have 2 Gig of RAM).

Going back to SH3 by clicking it in the task bar only got me to the locked screen again. Eventually I had to turn off the power, losing my hard-earned tonnage.

Can anyone comment on whether this is likely to be a hardware problem or software? I posted some time ago with similar problems and eventually ruled out GWX as a possible offender, but I'm still getting these locks fairly frequently. Mostly they happen if I've paused and left SH3 for more than just a few minutes. When I come back I'm locked!

05-09-07, 03:56 AM	#1
Vacillator Frogman Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK Posts: 307 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Ever feel a bit cheated by SH3? After an hour and a half infiltrating a convoy with at least 5 escorts, I hit two whale factory ships with 2 torps each and a large merch with my bow tube. I then went to 100 metres depth, silent running at 1kt. One of the escorts pinged me and dropped three lots of depth charges but they were quite far away perhaps due to a couple of course changes. The two whalers then sank (for a nice 25000+ tons). Then the cheated feeling! The escort dropped a fourth set of charges and they exploded some distance away, but just then my screen locked and my sound looped. I could get out of SH3 using the Windows key so I brought up the Task Manager. This showed SH3 at 0.9Gig memory use and that it was not responding. It also said I was at 100% CPU use with a page file of 1.28Gig (I have 2 Gig of RAM). Going back to SH3 by clicking it in the task bar only got me to the locked screen again. Eventually I had to turn off the power, losing my hard-earned tonnage. Can anyone comment on whether this is likely to be a hardware problem or software? I posted some time ago with similar problems and eventually ruled out GWX as a possible offender, but I'm still getting these locks fairly frequently. Mostly they happen if I've paused and left SH3 for more than just a few minutes. When I come back I'm locked!