A Very depressing CTD

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So on a patrol, I was feasting on a convoy, sank 2 large merchants, a passenger/cargo (by accident), a medium tanker, and an auxiliary cruiser. Good enough for about 41k tons. After the latest attack and going towards the interior of the convoy, I get spotted and crash dive. After diving to about 40 meters I rise quickly back up to periscope depth to try to get an aft shot away on another ship before diving really deep, since the escort that spotted me is still far enough away to do all this.

As I'm raising the periscope the game freezes and I get the dreaded "silent hunter 3 has stopped working" message. Nooooo!!

Isn't there supposed to be an accompanying message kinda clueing me in on what exactly caused the crash? I thought I read that somewhere on these forums. I didn't see anything like that.

I used to run the TDW Depth charge Disturbance mod but it made my game crash so I removed it. Hadn't had any issues since then on multiple patrols until now. Although I did recently get a CTD when near Dunkirk during the late May/early June evacuation. So I had to reload and I stayed away from Dunkirk. Finished that patrol. This recent crash is on the very next patrol.


FYI I'm running GWX with sh3 commander.

Other mods include:
Conus widescreen
TDW ship plane fire damage
Randomized searchlights
Lifeboat and debris
Torpedo damage final
DepthChargeShake
MEP environment mod and MEP sensors
Hsie patch
Stiebler patch
4 gig patch as well


System specs:

HP ProBook 4540s
Windows 7 (32-bit operating system)
Intel core I5 @ 2.5 Ghz
4 GB RAM.(it says 2.88 GB usable?)
Intel HD graphics 4000


Anyone know what my issue might have been/be?

Going to play some more, hopefully it doesn't happen again.