Game crashing infrequently

Sniper297 · 12-20-14, 08:02 PM

I'm running Win XP on a desktop with 2 gigs of RAM and a real video card (Nvidia GTX 650) and still get the same thing, so it's probably unrelated to hardware. One random crash I've been trying to chase down is changing from the map to the periscope or bridge view the game crashes to desktop with the standard error message, but no way to duplicate the error - sometimes it does it, most times it doesn't, which makes troubleshooting impossible.

Save games are sometimes a problem, one trick that often works is to load a different save game, delete half of other save games, then try loading the last game that crashes. Example;

4 patrol 7
4 patrol 6
4 patrol 5
4 patrol 4
etc
3 patrol 8
3 patrol 7
3 patrol 6
etc

That two most recent, 4 patrol 7 and 4 patrol 6, crash every time I try to load either one. So I load 1 patrol 1, click on SAVE to get the delete menu, then delete all the odd numbers or all the even numbers from the first three patrols, then try loading 4 patrol 7 again. No idea why, but that usually works.

The random crashes are still a mystery, I've done clean re-installs and moved from the SSD disk to the main C disk to see if there was some sort of conflict with the save games being on a different disk, changed out memory sticks and video cards, defragged, cleaned up the registry, ran virus checkers, all the usual stuff - the program crashes because it's buggy, only way to fix that is play something else.

12-20-14, 08:02 PM	#7
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	I'm running Win XP on a desktop with 2 gigs of RAM and a real video card (Nvidia GTX 650) and still get the same thing, so it's probably unrelated to hardware. One random crash I've been trying to chase down is changing from the map to the periscope or bridge view the game crashes to desktop with the standard error message, but no way to duplicate the error - sometimes it does it, most times it doesn't, which makes troubleshooting impossible. Save games are sometimes a problem, one trick that often works is to load a different save game, delete half of other save games, then try loading the last game that crashes. Example; 4 patrol 7 4 patrol 6 4 patrol 5 4 patrol 4 etc 3 patrol 8 3 patrol 7 3 patrol 6 etc That two most recent, 4 patrol 7 and 4 patrol 6, crash every time I try to load either one. So I load 1 patrol 1, click on SAVE to get the delete menu, then delete all the odd numbers or all the even numbers from the first three patrols, then try loading 4 patrol 7 again. No idea why, but that usually works. The random crashes are still a mystery, I've done clean re-installs and moved from the SSD disk to the main C disk to see if there was some sort of conflict with the save games being on a different disk, changed out memory sticks and video cards, defragged, cleaned up the registry, ran virus checkers, all the usual stuff - the program crashes because it's buggy, only way to fix that is play something else.