I just spent all flippin night (9:30pm -0 1:30am) uninstalling/reinstalling/uinstalling/reinstalling.
Now, four hours later I'm finally ready to fire up my FRESH installation of GWX and what happens . . . IT FRICKING CRASHES ON THE LOAD SCREEN.
So, my problem has gone from bad to worse. Used to be it just crashed four hours into the game . . . now I can't even GET into the game.
This is really unbelieveable.
First of all, I couldn't figure out whether I had the European or US version. Turns out I have the European version (bought off Ebay). So, I made a fresh download of all the patches from v1.1 - 1.4b. My clean installation showed 1.4 in the lower corner. I assume this is correct.
Stock SH3 starts up just fine.
Then I installed GWX. I ran allll the files through the mod checker thingy to make sure they werent corrupt. They weren't. I followed all the instructions for installation at the GWX page. I did GWX 2.0 first, then I did 1.03, then I setup SH3 Commander, making sure to cut & paste the proper updates into the .cfg folder. I made a few option changes via SH3 Commander. Then I loaded a few of the GWX mods via JSGME. Then I started GWX via SH3 Commander. The GWX load screen shows 1.03. About 3/4 of the way through . . . CRASH! Black screen. Error.
So, I rollback SH3 Commander, uninstall all mods and try again. Same thing.
So, I rollback SH3 Commander and try to start the game with the GWX desktop icon. Crash.
So, I try starting via the regular SH3 Icon. Guess what? Crash.
So . . . should I just quit.
This is NO FUN AT ALL.
Here's the error log:
Quote:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 1/10/2008
Time: 1:14:21 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SCOTTS-MACHINE
Description:
Faulting application sh3.exe, version 1.4.0.1, faulting module simdata.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00005df9.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 73 68 33 ure sh3
0018: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 34 .exe 1.4
0020: 2e 30 2e 31 20 69 6e 20 .0.1 in
0028: 73 69 6d 64 61 74 61 2e simdata.
0030: 64 6c 6c 20 30 2e 30 2e dll 0.0.
0038: 30 2e 30 20 61 74 20 6f 0.0 at o
0040: 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 30 ffset 00
0048: 30 30 35 64 66 39 0d 0a 005df9..
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I just uninstalled SH3 Commander via add/remove programs. Then I deleted the SH3 folder in My Documents. Then I started GWX again. This time it got all the way to the end of the bar . . . before the screen went blank and it crashed to the gaddamn desktop.
Tomorrow I uninstall/reinstall ONE MORE TIME and that is IT.
One more day and I'm DONE with this.