£2000? It's a heck lot of money... My rig is hardly worth 1/4 of this sum (pc, not a laptop) and SHIII+GWX2.1 is working like a charm (besides "never-ending" loading times^^ But at least I have the time to make myself a tea (or coffee even better, as I use my pc mostly at night).
You really should try it out on some other hardware, it's far better than stock SHIII overall. Are you sure you installed it "the proper" way? Also:
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If you have a copy of SH3 & the MED expansion (  ) and then put GWX over it, it will crash all the time.
If it's just a case of system instability after correctly loading GWX, increase your paging file (aka Virtual RAM).
It's all very good saying you spent £2000 on a laptop but what's the specs? It's quite easy to buy a laptop for that much but monetary value is not an indication system resources.
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I don't know much about the Med expansion, but the GWX instalation notes are pretty much simple about the version - "vanilla" SHIII installation patched to 1.4b. So I would guess it's the expansion that is incompatible with GWX mod is causing trouble.
All other quoted statements are true, in the meaning, you could have troubles 'cause of not enough page file size, or because your laptop is overprised (or it's great, but not that great
). As for me, I wouldn't buy a laptop for playing any game, for working or surf the net while in travel - yes, but playing games? Noo...
But what do I know, I'm just a
landratte
Btw, I never experienced Command Room lag... Yes, in harbour after loading save game its a pain for a few seconds, but when all the objects are loaded to memory then its okay.