Need help analyze an odd saved game

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by BasilY

Actually, GWX3.0 has been good so far. I had three careers without a bad save. (although it's now my practice to try to finish entire patrols without saving/loading) This is the first saved game I had a problem in GWX3.0.

With respect, The situation I am describing is NOT the same situation you have. The game I had did NOT crash WHILE loading (I had that happened in GWX2.1). It crashed after loading successfully and playing for a few minutes. I actually finally AVOID THE CRASH, by running on the surface at flank AWAY from the convoy (over-cast sky, visibility is low). I was able to play on. So I believe this saved game is a great opportunity to finally find out what's causing the crashes. Loading this game and trying to approach the convoy will guarantee a crash.

I am always curious about what exactly cause the crashes. So this saved seem Ideal. I hope someone can finally get to the root of it.

To Jimbuna, The myth that saving while submerged and/or near vessels are not correct. I had perfectly good saved games where I am at p-depth around DDs. But I had bad saves where I am on the surface and with nothing around. Being submerged and/or near other vessel doesn't seem to increase the chances of corrupt saved games.

Originally Posted by Jail

Could it be that the computer gets too much to render/keeping track of in that convoy that makes it crash ?

Yes, just to make sure, clean out the pc case from dust and make sure enough cool air can enter it (and warm air leave). Also clean the fans of your CPU and graphic card. I had it crash on me several times when the game had to show more particle effect like torpedo explosion or bowspray. Mind you, for me that was on hot days, with 2 harddrive connected back to back pretty hot to the touch. Cleaning out the dust and keeping the side lid open I have never had such crashes again. The harddrives appearantly were not the direect cause because I left them back-to-back at the time. However those harddrives started to act up because of the heat they generated a year later. Seperating them and blowing an auxiliary fan at them made the pc alot more stable and able to keep a 'cool head'. Or lower the particle intensity in the options page of the main menu.