More woes with Stiebler4B_Addon_for_V16B1

GreyBeard · 04-04-14, 10:48 AM

Personally, I never overwrite game saves. My first save on a new career is always Patrol 1. The next is Patrol 1a, then Patrol 1b and so forth and so forth, until I'm back in port. Then it's on to Patrol 2. Nothing complicated, no dates to discern or anything else. Just something to differentiate between each save. I have yet to reach the end of the alphabet.

I use CCleaner on a regular basis. I like to use it to wipe the free space clean too. I also use the Jv16 PowerTools by Macecraft regularly. I have never had a problem occur after using either of those tools.

Yet.

GJO · 04-04-14, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by GreyBeard

Personally, I never overwrite game saves. My first save on a new career is always Patrol 1. The next is Patrol 1a, then Patrol 1b and so forth and so forth, until I'm back in port. Then it's on to Patrol 2. Nothing complicated, no dates to discern or anything else. Just something to differentiate between each save. I have yet to reach the end of the alphabet.

I use CCleaner on a regular basis. I like to use it to wipe the free space clean too. I also use the Jv16 PowerTools by Macecraft regularly. I have never had a problem occur after using either of those tools.

Yet.

Brilliant! That just seems so easy - I may borrow your idea! My system of using the date now seems so complicated in comparison! One of the things I really like about CCleaner and its stablemates is that they are so simple yet so effective . . .

GJO · 04-06-14, 02:57 AM

OK - so I have now meticulously removed the game and all of its directories and files, cleaned the registry and removed al unnecessary flotsam that may have been left behind. The game has been carefully reinstalled together with GWX3, SH3 Commander and only those mods that I have decided to install. It is August 1939 and I shall now report to Königsberg to take command of a new Type 7b U-Boot . . .

ETA - I shall also adopt GreyBeard's system of choosing names for when I save the game . . .

GJO · 04-09-14, 07:09 AM

It is a long learning curve - at the moment, I seem unable to play Silent Hunter at all because since starting all over again with a squeaky clean install, whenever I try to reload and resume a saved game, I get a CTD. Now I am not blaming the GWX3_Stiebler4B_Addon_for_V16B1 but after 22 enjoyable patrols, my problems didstart after I had downloaded and installed that MOD. So it is clear that I did something during that process that has upset the equilibrium.

Reading the crash reports I note that one of the culprits is a file entitled: msvcr71.dll - that particular dll came with SH3 and is dated 2003 - it may have been corrupted so perhaps I need to download a newer version - any ideas?

scott_c2911 · 04-09-14, 08:36 AM

As far as I am aware msvcr71.dll is associated with ms .net framework. Download from ms site the latest version and it should replace the file. I dont think sh3 installs it however im not sure about that

TheDarkWraith · 04-09-14, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by GJO

Reading the crash reports I note that one of the culprits is a file entitled: msvcr71.dll - that particular dll came with SH3 and is dated 2003 - it may have been corrupted so perhaps I need to download a newer version - any ideas?

msvcr71 is the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime version 7.1. Crashing on this usually means incorrect parameters were passed to a function being called in this DLL (either incorrect type or number of parameters). My guess would be a null/invalid pointer was being passed to a function in this DLL. Only way to know for sure is attach OllyDebug or another Debugger to the game while it's running and reproduce the error (the Debugger will 'break' into the game and show you where the error is and what the error is). You also can then follow the call stack back to see if it has anything to do with the 'new' code added by Stiebler or hsie.

GJO · 04-09-14, 01:50 PM

Just a thought - should I have installed the 4GB Patch? Is it necessary with Windows 8.1

BigWalleye · 04-09-14, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by GJO

Just a thought - should I have installed the 4GB Patch? Is it necessary with Windows 8.1

The 4GB patch enables the program software - in this case, sh3.exe - to request 4GB from the OS. Without the 4GB patch, old 32-bit sh3.exe would only ever request a 2GB allocation, whether it was running in a 64-bit OS or not. (When SH3 was written, there was no 64-bit Windows OS, so how could the devs allow for a capability that didn't exist?) You must install the 4GB patch if you want SH3 to use more than 2GB.

A corollary is that sh3.exe with the 4GB patch will only request 4GB, regardless of how much memory your system has.

GJO · 04-13-14, 06:01 AM

Hooray - I am up and running again and out on my first patrol in a new career!

Having said that, I think I need to make another small adjustment to the torpedo bad weather behaviour - I have used my entire internal load out of 12 torpedoes and only one of them detonated. The others all swam right under their targets despite my careful attention to depth setting and wave heights.

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04-04-14, 10:48 AM	#1
GreyBeard Engineer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: LI, NY Posts: 209 Downloads: 257 Uploads: 2	Personally, I never overwrite game saves. My first save on a new career is always Patrol 1. The next is Patrol 1a, then Patrol 1b and so forth and so forth, until I'm back in port. Then it's on to Patrol 2. Nothing complicated, no dates to discern or anything else. Just something to differentiate between each save. I have yet to reach the end of the alphabet. I use CCleaner on a regular basis. I like to use it to wipe the free space clean too. I also use the Jv16 PowerTools by Macecraft regularly. I have never had a problem occur after using either of those tools. Yet.

04-06-14, 02:57 AM	#3
GJO Engineer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: On the Oxford Canal in England Posts: 202 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	OK - so I have now meticulously removed the game and all of its directories and files, cleaned the registry and removed al unnecessary flotsam that may have been left behind. The game has been carefully reinstalled together with GWX3, SH3 Commander and only those mods that I have decided to install. It is August 1939 and I shall now report to Königsberg to take command of a new Type 7b U-Boot . . . ETA - I shall also adopt GreyBeard's system of choosing names for when I save the game . . .

04-09-14, 07:09 AM	#4
GJO Engineer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: On the Oxford Canal in England Posts: 202 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	It is a long learning curve - at the moment, I seem unable to play Silent Hunter at all because since starting all over again with a squeaky clean install, whenever I try to reload and resume a saved game, I get a CTD. Now I am not blaming the GWX3_Stiebler4B_Addon_for_V16B1 but after 22 enjoyable patrols, my problems didstart after I had downloaded and installed that MOD. So it is clear that I did something during that process that has upset the equilibrium. Reading the crash reports I note that one of the culprits is a file entitled: msvcr71.dll - that particular dll came with SH3 and is dated 2003 - it may have been corrupted so perhaps I need to download a newer version - any ideas?

04-09-14, 01:50 PM	#7
GJO Engineer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: On the Oxford Canal in England Posts: 202 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	Just a thought - should I have installed the 4GB Patch? Is it necessary with Windows 8.1

04-13-14, 06:01 AM	#9
GJO Engineer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: On the Oxford Canal in England Posts: 202 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	Hooray - I am up and running again and out on my first patrol in a new career! Having said that, I think I need to make another small adjustment to the torpedo bad weather behaviour - I have used my entire internal load out of 12 torpedoes and only one of them detonated. The others all swam right under their targets despite my careful attention to depth setting and wave heights.