I am so frustrated i am going to break something!!

[Capt. Morgan]

Originally Posted by Apache312

I too have started SH4, and I just cant seem to get into it. The AA crews are worthless, and believe it or not, I really miss the crew management. I like the stability, but somethings still missing from SH4. Any idea how to get my game to the points of your comment?

I hear you. I'm back with SH3 too (Really like piloting my boat through the locks on a pitch-black night).

As to why I'm lucky with saves, I'm just religious about how I save. Never when submerged ( and always very careful not to be momentarily submerged in bad weather), never if any harbors or surface or air units are within 30Km (now 50Km), and always at zero time compression (forgot about that one, never save at a high TC)

If I can't meet those conditions and i need to leave, then I pause the game and alt-tab out of it. I've left it like that for hours without any ill effects.

I've also cut down on the number of Mods I load (I did have more problems when I was experimenting with every mod there was), and I've installed the 4GB [edit] patch which allows SH3 to access a lot more virtual memory.

Originally Posted by desirableroasted

I go get a beer while the game loads to the first menu, then drink it while the saved game loads.

Ale, Lager or Pilsner?

[JokerOfFate]

Originally Posted by desirableroasted

I go get a beer while the game loads to the first menu, then drink it while the saved game loads.

Same here

Originally Posted by Capt. Morgan

Ale, Lager or Pilsner?

Lager for me mate. Harp by the way

[K-61]

Originally Posted by Capt. Morgan

I hear you. I'm back with SH3 too (Really like piloting my boat through the locks on a pitch-black night).

As to why I'm lucky with saves, I'm just religious about how I save. Never when submerged ( and always very careful not to be momentarily submerged in bad weather), never if any harbors or surface or air units are within 30Km (now 50Km), and always at zero time compression (forgot about that one, never save at a high TC)

If I can't meet those conditions and i need to leave, then I pause the game and alt-tab out of it. I've left it like that for hours without any ill effects.

I've also cut down on the number of Mods I load (I did have more problems when I was experimenting with every mod there was), and I've installed the 3GB patch which allows SH3 to access a lot more virtual memory.



Ale, Lager or Pilsner?

Whoa there!!! What's this thing about a patch for memory? I've never heard of that. My gaming rig has 8 GB of real RAM. Are you saying there is a patch that allows the game to access more physical RAM? If so, would it work for systems that have 4 or more GB of physical RAM?

I seem to suffer from more than my fair share of corrupted saves or games in play that just go poof! and crash to desktop. My last patrol, I lost the whole thing, in spite of reloading from four saves made at four different times in that patrol. A shame, that, as I lost over 47K of tonnage I had sunk. On my XP gaming rig I never had that nonsense, but it happens all the time on my Windows 7 machine, in spite of following to a T the installation instructions.

thats because windows 7 is, in a word, crap. I hate it honestly

Originally Posted by K-61

Whoa there!!! What's this thing about a patch for memory? I've never heard of that. My gaming rig has 8 GB of real RAM. Are you saying there is a patch that allows the game to access more physical RAM? If so, would it work for systems that have 4 or more GB of physical RAM?

I seem to suffer from more than my fair share of corrupted saves or games in play that just go poof! and crash to desktop. My last patrol, I lost the whole thing, in spite of reloading from four saves made at four different times in that patrol. A shame, that, as I lost over 47K of tonnage I had sunk. On my XP gaming rig I never had that nonsense, but it happens all the time on my Windows 7 machine, in spite of following to a T the installation instructions.

[Capt. Morgan]

Originally Posted by K-61

Whoa there!!! What's this thing about a patch for memory? I've never heard of that. My gaming rig has 8 GB of real RAM. Are you saying there is a patch that allows the game to access more physical RAM? If so, would it work for systems that have 4 or more GB of physical RAM?...

It allows older programs to access more virtual memory (or swap). Ordinarily they can only access 2gb - This gives them more. Here it is...
http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php

It's called the 4GB patch (I've edited my post above, which incorrectly called it as the "3GB" patch). There are discussions about it throughout subsim, here's one from the Merchant Fleet Mod - which is especially heavy on SH3 resources.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...170741&page=24

Also this post
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=174592

IIRC, if you have a 32bit OS, you also need to add the /3gb parameter to your boot.ini file. That's discussed later in the first link.

[K-61]

Originally Posted by Capt. Morgan

It allows older programs to access more virtual memory (or swap). Ordinarily they can only access 2gb - This gives them more. Here it is...
http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php

It's called the 4GB patch (I've edited my post above, which incorrectly called it as the "3GB" patch). There are discussions about it throughout subsim, here's one from the Merchant Fleet Mod - which is especially heavy on SH3 resources.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...170741&page=24

Also this post
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=174592

IIRC, if you have a 32bit OS, you also need to add the /3gb parameter to your boot.ini file. That's discussed later in the first link.

Thanks for the info! I have a 64 bit OS on my gaming laptop, but my gaming desktop is 32 bit XP with 2 GB but I am going to be adding another 1 GB of physical RAM.

[Gerald]

Until you get out and cut some ship so your frustration is reduced