GWX 3.0, plus other mods, running problems

[overlord0108]

Right, so it was working perfectly fine, with GWX and SH3 Commander.

I installed all the mods and it ran perfectly for a patrol, I sank 17,000 tons of shipping, saved and then exited the patrol. Went to my next patrol where it began to load up before it had another CTD, this time not even reaching the NOT SO LONG AGO screen.

I've used BCDedit to make Vista run with 3GB of memory and I've also tried running it without the integrated orders and open hatch mod being enabled, as suggested, but it still has a CTD.

If there is anything else that I could try it would be greatly appreciated, in the meanwhile I'm going to check my mods one by one as Jimbuna has suggested.

Thanks in advance guys.

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by overlord0108

...in the meanwhile I'm going to check my mods one by one as Jimbuna has suggested.

Oops, looks like I spoke too soon...

If you're going to start checking them individually, I'd start by disabling:

'GWX 3 Wilhelmshaven, St Naz, Schluese & xtra ships V6'

It's the most memory intensive from your list and has the greatest potential for possible conflicts and other (ill-desired) side effects. Good luck!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Fish In The Water

Oops, looks like I spoke too soon...

If you're going to start checking them individually, I'd start by disabling:

'GWX 3 Wilhelmshaven, St Naz, Schluese & xtra ships V6'

It's the most memory intensive from your list and has the greatest potential for possible conflicts and other (ill-desired) side effects. Good luck!

No leave that in (I speak from experience).

Add all the mods that come with GWX and leave the mod BBW and I created.

I have personally ran the above and a boat load of others on 2GB RAM for quite a few years in the early days.

A PITA I know but I would uninstall everything including the SH3 folder in C\MyDocs, perform a registry clean with regvac (my choice) or crapcleaner then reinstall the SH3 game and GWX mod (installation advise available from the GWX website...click on my sig).

Enable the GWX mods plus the St Naz, Schluese & xtra ships V6 then ensure everything is stable and running fine.

After that, install one mod at a time and so on and so forth.

[overlord0108]

Thanks Jimbuna, that's the plan for tomorrow, fingers crossed it works.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by overlord0108

Thanks Jimbuna, that's the plan for tomorrow, fingers crossed it works.

Good Luck Kaleun

[overlord0108]

Right so I've finally sorted it, defragged the computer and checked the files one by one, I'm just annoyed that the mod that doesn't work is the Wilhelmshaven port St Naz and Schluese, xtra ships mod.

One day I'll grab me a computer that can run it, but ah well at least its working now and I got to see the great work before the crashes

Thanks for the help everyone, this Kaleun can get back to hunting again.

[Sailor Steve]

It's funny. I have XP 32-bit and run Wilhelmshaven with no trouble. What kills my game is the GWX Enhanced Damage Effects. Every time I sink a ship all that oil and smoke causes a crash. I'm not complaining, because everybody already knows this, and even Jim couldn't figure it out. I'm just pointing out the weirdness that causes one system to crash with one thing and another to fail on something completely different.

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by overlord0108

Right so I've finally sorted it, defragged the computer and checked the files one by one, I'm just annoyed that the mod that doesn't work is the Wilhelmshaven port St Naz and Schluese, xtra ships mod.

Kind of thought it'd be that one...

Let's hope you're sorted for good this time and happy hunting!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by overlord0108

Right so I've finally sorted it, defragged the computer and checked the files one by one, I'm just annoyed that the mod that doesn't work is the Wilhelmshaven port St Naz and Schluese, xtra ships mod.

One day I'll grab me a computer that can run it, but ah well at least its working now and I got to see the great work before the crashes

Thanks for the help everyone, this Kaleun can get back to hunting again.

I must admit to being suprised because like Steve I ran it on a 32-bit system with 2GB RAM...and that was prior to release...in fact, IIRC one, perhaps two of the Grey Wolves testers only had 1GB RAM.