aww shucks - ctd on TC

She-Wolf · 08-01-10, 09:16 AM

Game has been playing just fine on Windows Seven and I can't think what I have done that might have brought the problem as that machine is used just for games and the forums relating to them.

I am in the Solent - the bit of the English Channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland, and am just past Portsmouth, trying to get to Southampton undetected. Of course I am in shallow water. As I am down to about 10% battery, I have surfaced ( it is dusk and no enemy vessels are patrolling nearby apart from in the harbour), but I am keen to get further along, so I use TC, and if I go to x8 or above, the game ctd's. It has not done that before in similar circumstances, such as the Kiel Canal, so I do not understand what is causing the problem now. I went back to a previous save hoping that might get past the problem, but it has not. I do not know if it might be related, but each time I restart the game now, the crew all start shouting and table-thumping as if I have just had a kill - but I have not, and on one save, even though I was submerged, there was a full complement watch in the tower, bravely peering through their binoculars at any passing fishes...

I usually come back with relief to SH3 after trying SH5 again, which despite excellent graphics and the improvements the mods have given it, is still too frustrating to settle into for me, so I hope there might be a simple solution to this CTD. I seem fated never to get beyond about four patrols before something happens and I have to start again, but I hoped I had put all that behind me switching to the W7 machine...

08-01-10, 09:16 AM	#1
She-Wolf Watchdog Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Hampshire UK Posts: 971 Downloads: 152 Uploads: 0	aww shucks - ctd on TC Game has been playing just fine on Windows Seven and I can't think what I have done that might have brought the problem as that machine is used just for games and the forums relating to them. I am in the Solent - the bit of the English Channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland, and am just past Portsmouth, trying to get to Southampton undetected. Of course I am in shallow water. As I am down to about 10% battery, I have surfaced ( it is dusk and no enemy vessels are patrolling nearby apart from in the harbour), but I am keen to get further along, so I use TC, and if I go to x8 or above, the game ctd's. It has not done that before in similar circumstances, such as the Kiel Canal, so I do not understand what is causing the problem now. I went back to a previous save hoping that might get past the problem, but it has not. I do not know if it might be related, but each time I restart the game now, the crew all start shouting and table-thumping as if I have just had a kill - but I have not, and on one save, even though I was submerged, there was a full complement watch in the tower, bravely peering through their binoculars at any passing fishes... I usually come back with relief to SH3 after trying SH5 again, which despite excellent graphics and the improvements the mods have given it, is still too frustrating to settle into for me, so I hope there might be a simple solution to this CTD. I seem fated never to get beyond about four patrols before something happens and I have to start again, but I hoped I had put all that behind me switching to the W7 machine... __________________