i M having CRASHing problems! plz help me

[Crawlerz]

u see i got the SH3 1.4 right? (although some say 1.4b - used to be before - now the patch mechanism says 1.3... but that's beside the point)

i got the supermod GW - wowie are they good! now i installed SH3 commander but i think a bunch of things happened and well i M having crashes! lots of them. my pc is a very good DELL @ 3.0GHz, 1GB ram, 128mb video, WinXP, 160GB hard drive, wireless everything, spacesaver speakers (mounted under monitor), good soundBlaster sound, and a 17" monitor (not too big i think)

my SH3 crashes often and i cannot even finish a mission! this sux!
iM going to uninstall, right? try to reinstall? do u think something else is going on?
thnx

[DanBiddle]

Yeah, I'd recommend uninstalling everything, reinstall SH# and patch it to 1.4b then test the game. If it works, install GW1.1a and test it again, and the finally reinstall SH3 Commander if it all works fine. That way you can see which addon is causing the PC to crash. Hope it all works out for you!

Cheers,

Dan Biddle

[Deimos01]

You seem to be plagued with this Crawlerz. When you do the re-install make sure to delete the SH3 folder in you Program Files before re-installing. When you unistall the game the folder is still there and remnants of the old game can left behind as well. If left this will cause problems.

Try the above mentioned by Dan, then....

Hmmm, Im wondering. Did you download the correct patch? I know you are using the correct version(1.4). But there are different patches for DVD, download or EURO versions of the stock game. You need to make sure you have the patch that matches the stock version of the game you bought.

If not that, then the problem could be with your system. Make sure you have all the latest drivers for everything. Have you done any add-ons to you comp lately?

[Grrbob25]

do you have a real graphics card? or is it integrated?? because playing sh3 with integrated=very bad and it draggs down your RAM too

1. Uninstall SH3
2. Uninstall SH3 Commander
3. Do a search and locate UBI/SH3 and SH3 Commander directories and delete them.
4. Delete the SH3 directory that is under "My Documents"
5. Recommend the program Crap Cleaner, it is a free dowload. Run a Google search for it. Install and run the "clean" and the "issues" parts of it. You'll be surprised how much junk is on your computer and how many SH3 files are still there.
6. Run CheckDisk
7. Run Defrag
8. Run Crap Cleaner's clean and issues again.
9. Install SH3
10. Install 1.4b patch
11. Install Grey Wolves
12. Open SH3 one time the conventional way to install necessary files. At menu page, close SH3.
13. Install SH3 Commander 2.6
14. Open SH3 Commander and select your options. Then open SH3 with SH3 Commander. You might wish to start by creating a new career in Commander first.

Also, recommend FSautoStart download to free up some memory. This will select specific programs and services to close before you open SH3 Commander and the SH3 game.

I've done exactly the above and it works. In fact I did it just a couple of nights ago due to multiple crashes like you described.

Also, if you do any mods, remember there is a Role-Back feature in SH3 Commander to be done first. Every time you open SH3 with Commander it changes files in SH3 but it saves the original files for role-back later. So, unless you do a role-back, files in the mod may be overwriten by original files on the next SH3 Commander role-back which it does every time you open the SH3 game with it. I hope this makes sense.

[VonHelsching]

Nice post, Von.

Von

[John Channing]

And turn off Hardware Sound Accelleration in DXDiag.

I'll bet this is your problem.

JCC

Thanks Von, I appreciate that.