Savegame crashes driver-related?

[msalama]

Guys,

I think I might be onto something here. Just might, though.

But still...

I've gotten lots of savegame crashes during my new Black Sea campaign, because it's pretty hard to go further than 50kms from the shore there without missing a serious chunk of the shipping. I've therefore saved in positions not recommended, and thus, I'm seeing a carpload of corrupted saves as a result.

OK, that's driving me f*ng nuts... BUT! What's interesting is that the crashes are always accompanied with a Windows system event / error 45062 stating "invalid display type". The error is from the display driver, or, to be more specific, from a driver subprocess called "ati2mtag". I'm using a Radeon 9600 adapter with Omega 3.8.442 drivers.

Now all this may mean something, or then again, may not. What makes this interesting, however, is to google for a phrase like '+"ati2mtag"+"invalid display type"', because what the query returns is a carpload of assorted GAME CRASH DESCRIPTIONS all accompanied with this error message!!!

So what I'm going to try is to get an older driver and see if it helps. It just might, because as is known many newer drivers (and sometimes adapters too) just plainly don't support older games. And the core of SH3, as you might recall, was done in 2005(?) after all...

I'll report back if I bump into something worthwhile.

S!

PS / EDIT: Isn't the drivers though, but something else altogether. See below.