Aaaaarrrgghh! CTD's when loading a save

[K-61]

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin

Saving near land is also not recommended, IIRC. I think it does wacky things to any nearby ships or something

I'm aware of that bug and never do that. When I said "near land" I was I was still several hundred KMs out to sea.

[Gerald]

What year is it?

[Weiss Pinguin]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

You've been in my drinks cabinet haven't you?

What *hic* drinks cabinet? I know nothing! *burp*

[K-61]

Just had another one. I was near the Azores and trying to approach a convoy when an escort began to ping me. As he ran in to attack, CTD! This was not from a reload as I was still live after leaving Brest. I've definitely got to test my RAM, and if that doesn't reveal anything, I'll see about sending it back for advanced diagnostics. These CTD's are really beginning to hack me off; they happen at any year in the game. I'm pretty sure it's not the game but something with my OS or hardware.

Heat perhaps?

[Gerald]

As I as before, take time off today to check what is wrong

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by K-61

Just had another one. I was near the Azores and trying to approach a convoy when an escort began to ping me. As he ran in to attack, CTD! This was not from a reload as I was still live after leaving Brest. I've definitely got to test my RAM, and if that doesn't reveal anything, I'll see about sending it back for advanced diagnostics. These CTD's are really beginning to hack me off; they happen at any year in the game. I'm pretty sure it's not the game but something with my OS or hardware.

You mentioned using a laptop, I assume that its got its own dedicated video card unless you're using an old one. Heat has caused several CTD's with several of my games, with all the fans/exhaust vents on the bottom the heat dissipation is horrible. To finally fix it I put some large rubber feet (like the ones under a stereo receive or dvd player) that raised it up about a 1/2" and has pretty much solved the overheating problem (on my laptop if it goes beyond the threshold it shuts down the computer and kills all processes (like a windows version of kill -9 SH3) in order to turn off).

[K-61]

Yes, it is a notebook [I loath the term "laptop"] but is a high end one, the ASUS G73J series, all top spec. This baby has two fans pushing air through the chassis from front to rear, unlike many which force it out the side or through a single rear vent. The temps on this thing never get higher than the 30's and I always use a fluted hard support base. She's getting all the air she needs. ATI dedicated graphics processor @ 1GB. This thing smokes, but the CTD's are getting to be really annoying. They don't happen all the time, just often enough to irk me. I make a point of having 4 or 5 save points throughout a patrol. I'm going to be leaving it on all night tonight and run the full version of Memtest to see what that reveals. I'm really hoping it's just a bad RAM stick from the factory as that is the easiest fix.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by K-61

Yes, it is a notebook [I loath the term "laptop"] but is a high end one, the ASUS G73J series, all top spec. This baby has two fans pushing air through the chassis from front to rear, unlike many which force it out the side or through a single rear vent. The temps on this thing never get higher than the 30's and I always use a fluted hard support base. She's getting all the air she needs. ATI dedicated graphics processor @ 1GB. This thing smokes, but the CTD's are getting to be really annoying. They don't happen all the time, just often enough to irk me. I make a point of having 4 or 5 save points throughout a patrol. I'm going to be leaving it on all night tonight and run the full version of Memtest to see what that reveals. I'm really hoping it's just a bad RAM stick from the factory as that is the easiest fix.

Here's hoping that is what's causing the problem matey....this is quite puzzling.

[ediko]

Did you try removing recently installed mods? I have been having ctd's quite often but after removing some they all stopped and I didn't have a single ctd after (I even save underwater, near land, when spot convoy etc if I accidentally shutdown my pc, happened once and now I'm carefl with my career progression)

[Captain Nemo]

Originally Posted by K-61

I make a point of having 4 or 5 save points throughout a patrol.

Sorry to hear about the problems you are encountering with saves. Making saves regularly during a patrol may sound like you are ensuring that if something goes wrong one of the saves will come to your rescue. This is not always the case, unless you exit the game and reload the save each time you make one to verify they work OK, they may all be corrupt. As I understand it if you make a save but do not exit and that save is bad for some reason, then all subsequent saves will also be corrupt, like a chain reaction. I always save and exit after a session playing SH3 and each time I do this I save under a different name. That way if my most recent save goes bad, I know that the previous save did work. I lose a bit of progress but not the whole patrol.

Recently there was project being undertaken by a few on Subsim, looking into the save game problem. As far as I am aware, they have yet to report on their findings. Does anyone know if this work is still ongoing?

Nemo

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Captain Nemo

Recently there was project being undertaken by a few on Subsim, looking into the save game problem. As far as I am aware, they have yet to report on their findings. Does anyone know if this work is still ongoing?

Nemo

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