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Old 06-30-11, 07:19 PM   #11
f4wildweasel
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yeah it wouldn't be the first time this hardware has let me down. I've had video card issues, and I've read that bad RAM could be responsible for other problems I've had with PC gaming. It might be a temperature thing, earlier I started a patrol right after booting my computer (i.e. it was cold when the game started) and I was able to go through the entire patrol (which mainly consisted of introducing fishing boats to my Bofors, but you take what you get) and only when I was about 2 seconds out of Midway to dock it froze and crashed. So I just rebooted the game and sailed four feet and docked. No biggie.

If it's a DX9 issue, I'm sure I clicked on "check for and install DX if needed" or whatever it said when I installed the game back in 2008 (yeesh, has it really been three years?). I left my disc at my rented property and probably won't see it again until August (quick question: does playing the game w/o the disc cause any potential problems? Sorry I forgot to mention it earlier!)

Yeah it's a laptop (a gift for going off to college/my desktop died) back from late 2007 and it's still chugging away, though as i previously mentioned it has seen better days. To use an SH4 metaphor, I guess you could say it's an S-boat I keep trying to get it into bigger and more ominous task forces and convoys. Upgrading it at this point would be too much hassle I think. I am considering buying a new computer (probably gonna build it myself and save a bit. Maybe a desktop now that we live in the age of the smartphone and mobility is no longer a prime concern of mine with computers) but that still probably won't happen until next year. So until then I have to keep this guy up and running. If that means playing TMO and having to save every time I come in contact with a ship and after I sink one, so be it, it's a good habit to have anyways... not to say that I save before I approach ships so I can try again if it hits the fan with the escorts!... who would do that?! So unrealistic... (sarcasm? who knows?)

Thanks again for all the suggestions! I'll admit my hope was I'd get a response like "What?! Oh come on! EVERYONE knows you just go to file 39678y546.cfg and change a 0 to a 1 you n00b!" but my gut told me that, like most of the time my computer has problems, it's a bit more complicated than that.
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