I'm going to do this anyway but....

[in_vino_vomitus]

So - when I load some saved games in OM they crash the game - it just freezes up on the loading screen. I've noticed it's more prevalent if there's a convoy in the vicinity and I'm wondering if my two gigs of RAM are up to the job. Anyway I'm off to slot in some more - One thing it oughtn't to do is make anything worse, but can I expect this to fix the problem?

I'm assuming this isn't a general issue with OM because if it was it would be all over these forums

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by in_vino_vomitus

So - when I load some saved games in OM they crash the game - it just freezes up on the loading screen. I've noticed it's more prevalent if there's a convoy in the vicinity and I'm wondering if my two gigs of RAM are up to the job. Anyway I'm off to slot in some more - One thing it oughtn't to do is make anything worse, but can I expect this to fix the problem?

I'm assuming this isn't a general issue with OM because if it was it would be all over these forums

Four gigs should help, also get the 4 gig patch for SH 4 from the downloads area. I had the same problem with OM also, even with plenty of RAM, just never saved with a convoy near.Convoys are much larger on Allied side. Saving near IJN convoys, much smaller compared to those in OM creates problems as well.

[BrucePartington]

This really is a mystery.
I have been lucky so far (knock on wood).

HP Pavillion (found tossed in trash due to burnt graphics card), with:
1.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo;
2 Gb RAM
Nvidia GeForce GT 440 w/1Gb memory (bought as replacement)
500 Gb HDD
Win 7 Ultimate x86 (32 bit)

Never (so far) a corrupted save, not even with enemy convoys in radar.
However I never saved under water due to advice from experienced skippers on this forum.

SH3 and SH4 in high settings for the most part.
SH4 w/1.5 version (UBM).
Only a few minor mods. I'll consider popular mega mods after I finish my first career.

I regularly run a couple of system clean-up and tune-up programs, and I'm also careful about the start-up list.

[in_vino_vomitus]

It only happens with OM - I had OMEGU loaded, and I removed that and went to OMPLOT, which seemed to help. It hasn't crashed mid-game yet, but just had the first bite out of a big convoy, surfaced about 10 klicks away and saved, ready for the next installment - went to load and it hung up on the loading screen - I currently have 2 gigs installed so this should take me up to 6 - I just grabbed the Large address aware patch - I'm assuming that's what I need - Let's see what happens......

[Simmy]

Bubblehead1980,
I don't mean to side track this thread, but could you or anyone tell me exactly what "the 4 gig patch for SH 4" does?

Thanks...

Originally Posted by Simmy

Bubblehead1980,
I don't mean to side track this thread, but could you or anyone tell me exactly what "the 4 gig patch for SH 4" does?

Thanks...

it allows for more then the 3gb set limit of ram to be used