I am being punished by the sub sim gods!

[lukterran]

So I am currently station at Pearl and was sent SW to the Coral Sea. Went on a patrol and couldn't locate any hostile targets. So after staying in the area for my required time.

I headed north to find something to shoot at. So I made my way toward the Bismarck Sea where I saw a few TF moving around in radio. As I made my way past the port of Rabaul I couldn't keep my curiosity in check and decided to sneak in and see what ships were in port.

One thing lead to another I got greedy and ended up in a battle between 3 DDs and a few planes. Eventually after much tricky maneuvering and well placed torps, deck gun and AA shoots the USS Drum came up as victor leaving 8 ships smoking and 3 planes downed in the harbor.

So now low on torps and fuel I decided to head home.

My issue is that the sub sim gods are punishing me "for not staying silent, nor deep" by crashing my game.

Whenever I enter a TC higher than about 256x it gets very laggy. If I encounter a new ship at all the game wants to crash.

I have done the 4gb fix as well as I don't overwrite saved games. I can load in older saves and things work fine. However, this patrol seems lost unless I want to slow boat it back to Pearl at under 256x TC.

Anyone have any suggestions on possible fixes?