GWX 3.0, plus other mods, running problems

[Sailor Steve]

It's funny. I have XP 32-bit and run Wilhelmshaven with no trouble. What kills my game is the GWX Enhanced Damage Effects. Every time I sink a ship all that oil and smoke causes a crash. I'm not complaining, because everybody already knows this, and even Jim couldn't figure it out. I'm just pointing out the weirdness that causes one system to crash with one thing and another to fail on something completely different.

[Bakkels]

My guess is that mods like Wilhelmshaven put more strain on your RAM, whilst effects like GWX Enhanced Damage or RBS_SH4 effects ask more from your GPU. I have only 2 Gigs, so the Wilhelmshaven mod for example is pushing my PC to the limit. But I can run visual effects mods without too much trouble since my graphics card is more up to date.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Bakkels

My guess is that mods like Wilhelmshaven put more strain on your RAM, whilst effects like GWX Enhanced Damage or RBS_SH4 effects ask more from your GPU. I have only 2 Gigs, so the Wilhelmshaven mod for example is pushing my PC to the limit. But I can run visual effects mods without too much trouble since my graphics card is more up to date.

That's a good point! I don't think I've tried GWX Enhanced Damage Effects since I upgraded to a 1-GB 4650. I'm off to test something!

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It's funny. I have XP 32-bit and run Wilhelmshaven with no trouble. What kills my game is the GWX Enhanced Damage Effects. Every time I sink a ship all that oil and smoke causes a crash. I'm not complaining, because everybody already knows this, and even Jim couldn't figure it out. I'm just pointing out the weirdness that causes one system to crash with one thing and another to fail on something completely different.

You may want to try turning down the "Particle Density".
When I had problems with an earlier version, I turned it down to 15.
The lagging and crashing stopped.