Help! My Game Has Been Scuttled!

Sheldon · 06-03-09, 12:46 PM

Is a driver sweeper like a mine sweeper? Never heard of such a thing. My driver update was directly from Nvidia and seems to be fine.

Last night I tried loading the game again and it still crashed. I ran a memory diagnostic and confirmed there was no bad memory. I ran a fragmentation check and there was only minor (insignificant) fragmentation. No culprits. No clues. The error message from Microsoft did not contain any useful remarks.

So ... with a big sigh and no other option ... I uninstalled the whole program including all saves and profiles. Then I re-installed the game. I patched it to 1.4. I didn't bother with the smoke mod but did copy over the mp3s for the gramophone. I did NOT modify the CFG.

So far, so good. The game loads. I could save my game then I exited the program and tried loading the game again and it worked. FWIW, the game does seem to load a little bit faster. Not minutes ... but faster by a few seconds.

Just posting this follow up for posterity in case this glitch should happen to any of my fellow skippers. Thanks for all your suggestions. I appreciate it.

Now ... there's a big, fat merchant convoy out there that needs to be sunk so off I go.

Task Force · 06-03-09, 02:09 PM

Driver sweeper is a program that deletes old drivers... so you dont have a halfway uninstalled driver or something with 2 drivers.

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06-03-09, 12:46 PM	#1
Sheldon Watch Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 19 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Is a driver sweeper like a mine sweeper? Never heard of such a thing. My driver update was directly from Nvidia and seems to be fine. Last night I tried loading the game again and it still crashed. I ran a memory diagnostic and confirmed there was no bad memory. I ran a fragmentation check and there was only minor (insignificant) fragmentation. No culprits. No clues. The error message from Microsoft did not contain any useful remarks. So ... with a big sigh and no other option ... I uninstalled the whole program including all saves and profiles. Then I re-installed the game. I patched it to 1.4. I didn't bother with the smoke mod but did copy over the mp3s for the gramophone. I did NOT modify the CFG. So far, so good. The game loads. I could save my game then I exited the program and tried loading the game again and it worked. FWIW, the game does seem to load a little bit faster. Not minutes ... but faster by a few seconds. Just posting this follow up for posterity in case this glitch should happen to any of my fellow skippers. Thanks for all your suggestions. I appreciate it. Now ... there's a big, fat merchant convoy out there that needs to be sunk so off I go.