crash at dunkirk

[Leg]

Hello everyone,
It's around 27 of may 1940, I'm running gwx 3.0 with some other small mods like the long repair time, the life boats, the sh4 effects, the water stream, q ships and some other ships (laconia, rex, duilio, queen mary ecc). The evacquation of dunkirk is going to happen. Alas, when I save and quit the game and try to reload it crashes, always. I've noticed it happens after I've been for a while in the area around Dunkirk, and if I save the game in that area. That's a big issue as I cannot save in that zone, and every time I save I dont know if I could load again the game or restart from a far save and do everything again and again.

[A Very Super Market]

Probably because of the large amount of other ships during the evacuation. It is a known bug that causes saves to CTD, so I recomment that you get clear of that area before saving next time.

[Leg]

Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

Probably because of the large amount of other ships during the evacuation. It is a known bug that causes saves to CTD, so I recomment that you get clear of that area before saving next time.

How far from that area should I go to save the game?

[melnibonian]

Originally Posted by Leg

How far from that area should I go to save the game?

The rule of thumb in SH3 regarding saving the game is:
1. Always save while you're on the surface
2. Never save close to other units (enemy or friendly)
3. Save at least 50Km away from land (100Km is even better)

[A Very Super Market]

Do a hydrophone check, and if you hear anything, you aren't far enough.

[Leg]

Originally Posted by melnibonian

The rule of thumb in SH3 regarding saving the game is:
1. Always save while you're on the surface
2. Never save close to other units (enemy or friendly)
3. Save at least 50Km away from land (100Km is even better)

Yes I've always tried to respect the all of them; quite difficult in the dunkirk area though. I've tried to save at least at 60\70km from the shore but with no success, I've tried to save in the same point where I had reloaded without crashing, I retured there to save but after two saves in that same point (in different moments of course) at the third I couldn't reload as it kept crashing. I'll try to save even more far from the area and see what happens, if not I don't really know what to do..

[Jimbuna]

There is a possibility of an id conflict in the vessels used by the campaign layer in this area.

BBW would be the best/most appropriate person to hunt it down.

If your up for it, open the Mission Editor and investigate the Campaign_Scr layer....you may notice two similarly named but different vessel types.