[REL] Dark Waters

[A Soviet Fanboi]

Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan

Ahoy, A Soviet Fanboi...
Hey, no worries.. your english, is likely loads better than My trying to speak (or for that matter, even attempting to type) your language...

Hmm, Ok.. with that.. is that on a CD/DVD disk, a copy, ripped from a disk, or access to their copy via Steam or Ubisoft.?

As for where it is installed, looks good... that I can see of there.

On the front, with jsgme.. care to click on tasks, scroll down to the last choice in the pop up menu (export activated mod list to> ) & select 'copy to clipboard' your activated mods list, so you can paste that in with your reply back, if you would, sir.

As far as I know of.. resolution selection... shouldn't really have any effect on the game. All that does is allows you to see things better, accordingly.. With your monitor, what's its native resolution scale.. exactly, if you would.? I know there is going through Windows settings & checking out what it is reporting is your monitors resolution, which would be tagged as 'recommended', as I recall of. Main point is, the screen size should match up in game, along with what windows is recognizing as your monitors native resolution scale... but outside of that, can't recall that causing issues with CTD's... others here may chime in & confirm or refute that...

The only thing I can think of, is that the patch may or may not have.. 'taken hold' when you ran it.. that can & does occasionally occur. which.. could be accounting for your running into CTD's.. of course, not knowing what the mod configuration is, exactly in your jsgme, could also possibly play a part in having CTD issues as well, that I can recall of. Which is why, it'll help to be able to eyeball your activated mod list from your jsgme. It'll help.

M. M.

So here are the mods which I have activated:
Generic Mod Enabler - v2.6.0.157
[D:\Silent Hunter 4 Dark Waters\MODS]

OM_DarkWaters_V6
OM_Strategic_Map_Symbols
OM_U-Jagd

The game is CD Ripped. And my pc's native resolution is 1366x768 and the game is recognizing the resolution and nearly everything is visible on the game interface.
And most importantly my PC's RAM is 4gb so is that the issue here?
And Lmao don't call me sir I am just a teen.

Anyways thanks

[propbeanie]

Do you have LAA activated on the SH4.exe file, and did you empty the Save folder ("C:\Users \UserName \Documents \SH4" by default) prior to starting DW?

[A Soviet Fanboi]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Do you have LAA activated on the SH4.exe file, and did you empty the Save folder ("C:\Users \UserName \Documents \SH4" by default) prior to starting DW?

I used Multi SH4 to create a seperate Save file. And what is this LAA thing?

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Do you have LAA activated on the SH4.exe file, and did you empty the Save folder ("C:\Users \UserName \Documents \SH4" by default) prior to starting DW?

Ahoy, propbeanie...

If you look at the tail end of their post #1045 they do mention of having ran a 4GB patch.. My guess is, is possible that the patch failed to initialize.. of course, that is a rough guess.. as I seem to recall others did run into that occurring.
Could be they got a bad download copy of the patch.. to who knows what of it not patching as it should when they ran it, for any # of reasons.. again, supposition, not having been there when they set everything up..

M. M.

[propbeanie]

I am looking at:

Originally Posted by A Soviet Fanboi

I used Multi SH4 to create a seperate Save file. And what is this LAA thing?

and answering:

Originally Posted by propbeanie

LAA = Large Address Aware, and is a "flag" that gets set on a 32-bit application that shows Windows that it can address a larger address area. Boring, technical info is here at Large Address Aware. CapnScurvy did a TEC write-up here on SubSim about his experience with Windows 10 64-bit installation, installing SH4, applying mods and using LAA in Windows10; Large Address Aware; SH4 Install. He has links to what he used there (LAA), which uses an dotNet interface that might also have to downloaded. Then there is the NTCore version 4Gig Patch, as well as a quickie that Jeff-Groves did a while back, but I cannot find it again... sigh - I'm getting old and losing things - besides my mind...

as for:

Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan

...Could be they got a bad download copy of the patch.. to who knows what of it not patching as it should when they ran it, for any # of reasons.. again, supposition, not having been there when they set everything up...

I would be more inclined to suspect an SH4.exe that is write-protected, or if using the Windows GUI (A Soviet Fanboi), right-click on the SH4.exe and choose "Properties" from the bottom of the context menu, and on the first "General" tab showing from that, under the "Attributes" section, be certain that the "Read-only" tick box is cleared. Then LAA or NTCore 4Gig Patch should take. I do not remember if the NTCore applet throws an error for you or not, but LAA for certain does not. You have to open it again to look-see what happened.

[A Soviet Fanboi]

Ok so now I played the game by applying the LAA patch and the game is running ok now, no CTDs encountered till now and I am near the Ireland-British gapping, and I have encountered a convoy too. And I also never exceeded the time compression of 1024x after reaching the AM grid so that may be one of the reason why the game didn't crashed. Anyways thanks for your suggestions.

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by A Soviet Fanboi

Ok so now I played the game by applying the LAA patch and the game is running ok now, no CTDs encountered till now and I am near the Ireland-British gapping, and I have encountered a convoy too. And I also never exceeded the time compression of 1024x after reaching the AM grid so that may be one of the reason why the game didn't crashed. Anyways thanks for your suggestions.

X1024 is a maximum only for crossing ocean, where poor chances of getting any action...all around Great Britain and Biscaye Bay in France, best is to run max X256 otherwise you will miss planes and action, not to say to be prone to CTDs (as for SH3 BTW)

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by A Soviet Fanboi

So here are the mods which I have activated:
Generic Mod Enabler - v2.6.0.157
[D:\Silent Hunter 4 Dark Waters\MODS]

OM_DarkWaters_V6
OM_Strategic_Map_Symbols
OM_U-Jagd

The game is CD Ripped. And my pc's native resolution is 1366x768 and the game is recognizing the resolution and nearly everything is visible on the game interface.
And most importantly my PC's RAM is 4gb so is that the issue here?
And Lmao don't call me sir I am just a teen.

Anyways thanks

Ahoy, A Soviet Fanboi...

To wit, saying sir, was a sign of respect, given that age doesn't show with a subsimmer's moniker. Now that I do know your.. approximate age, I will say young man, then..

Ok, given knowing just what you have activated & all...

Only thing I can see of causing possible issues with CTD, is that the 4GB patch you went with, failed to lock in.

From what you say your spec's are on the computer your using, looks ok. It probably would not hurt to look at sometime of maybe bumping up your RAM stats.. but for now, they should be adequate enough for sims such as SH4 & others that are in that same range for RAM.. that I'm aware of.. others can cross confirm this or correct Me, if I am wrong in that assessment.. am not 1 to shy from having an error in understanding pointed out. Only thing I ask, is just do so in a polite method...

Can retry running the 4GB patch & see if it takes as it should.. or just forgo that patch & see of googling for 'Large Address Aware', downloading that & install it. Is a simple 3 step process to run that, to assign SH4.exe 4GB RAM status.

1 other thing, comes to mind...

before you started off with modding SH4 with OM: Dark.. did you right click on the SH4.exe (after running the install to allow it to finalize set up, by the way) & go into the properties for the .exe & uncheck mark the 'Read only' box, as well as go into compatibility tab of properties, & check mark 'Run as Admin, & click ok for both of those tasks.?

M. M.