Okay, what'd I do?

frau kaleun · 01-22-10, 07:14 PM

Need some help with mods, please!

Running GWX3 Gold, SH3 Commander. Had started a career via Commander, ran successful 1st patrol in a VIIB 1-2 Aug 1939, 7th Flotilla out of Konigsberg. No mods installed yet, made no changes to anything the game gave me as far as u-boat, crew, equipment, etc. Saved career after returning to base. When I went back into SH3 Commander, all career info was there and updated to reflect status after 1st patrol. So far so good.

Added desired mods with JSGME to try out (in what I thought was right order where necessary.) Went back in tonight to start 2nd patrol (via Commander), went into saved career, clicked on last save which puts me in base after completing 1st patrol. In HQ screen clicked on Mission and hit Start. Game started to load, but about halfway through that I get my first taste of the "Silent Hunter III has encountered an error and needs to close" thing.

Closed game and tried to load same saved career without going through Commander, same deal. Tried to start new career, same deal. Tried to load single mission, same deal.

Started disabling mods one at a time to see if that helped. It did, finally.

Here are the mods I had enabled:

GWX 3 St Naz and Schleuse
WB's GWX campaign with 23 additional ships
-remove Titanic
-add Q ships

(can't remember official names of those last two, but they were options that came with WB's 23 add'l ships mod, which I enabled after installing it)

Then:

GWX Alternate Loadscreen Full Circle
GWX Integrated Orders
GWX No Medals on Crew
GWX Open Hatch Mod
GWX VIIC41 Player Sub
Scire-Tikigod-repeated order
VIIB WAR SKIN II
Das Boot Clothes

I'm not totally sure about the order in which I enabled that last batch, but to the best of my recollection that's it. I know I went down the list of GWX mods and enabled the ones I wanted from there first, before adding anything else.

I also had WB's GWX Mid-Patrol Radio Orders enabled in SH3 Commander, and had enabled the North Atlantic mod from that for the current patrol.

The game continued to err out when trying to load a saved career or mission until I had disabled everything except the GWX St Naz and Schleuse mod, which was the first one I had added because I thought WB's instructions for the add'l 23 ships mod said the St Naz & Schleuse mod had to be there first.

Is there a different St Naz/Schleuse mod that I should have used, or did I have some other conflict going on? Or is my system just not gonna run the game with everything enabled that I was trying to use?

I'm running Windows XP Pro 32 bit
AMD Athlon II X2 240 2.8 GHz AM3 Processor
Asus M3A78-EM motherboard
ATI Radeon HD4650 1 GB PCIe graphics card
Asus Xonar DX PCIe sound card
6 GB DDR2 RAM (of which Windows recognizes about 3.8 G, but I had the sticks so they're in there)

if any of that matters to my dilemma.

Thanks in advance for any advice/answers etc.!

01-22-10, 07:14 PM	#1
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	Okay, what'd I do? Need some help with mods, please! Running GWX3 Gold, SH3 Commander. Had started a career via Commander, ran successful 1st patrol in a VIIB 1-2 Aug 1939, 7th Flotilla out of Konigsberg. No mods installed yet, made no changes to anything the game gave me as far as u-boat, crew, equipment, etc. Saved career after returning to base. When I went back into SH3 Commander, all career info was there and updated to reflect status after 1st patrol. So far so good. Added desired mods with JSGME to try out (in what I thought was right order where necessary.) Went back in tonight to start 2nd patrol (via Commander), went into saved career, clicked on last save which puts me in base after completing 1st patrol. In HQ screen clicked on Mission and hit Start. Game started to load, but about halfway through that I get my first taste of the "Silent Hunter III has encountered an error and needs to close" thing. Closed game and tried to load same saved career without going through Commander, same deal. Tried to start new career, same deal. Tried to load single mission, same deal. Started disabling mods one at a time to see if that helped. It did, finally. Here are the mods I had enabled: GWX 3 St Naz and Schleuse WB's GWX campaign with 23 additional ships -remove Titanic -add Q ships (can't remember official names of those last two, but they were options that came with WB's 23 add'l ships mod, which I enabled after installing it) Then: GWX Alternate Loadscreen Full Circle GWX Integrated Orders GWX No Medals on Crew GWX Open Hatch Mod GWX VIIC41 Player Sub Scire-Tikigod-repeated order VIIB WAR SKIN II Das Boot Clothes I'm not totally sure about the order in which I enabled that last batch, but to the best of my recollection that's it. I know I went down the list of GWX mods and enabled the ones I wanted from there first, before adding anything else. I also had WB's GWX Mid-Patrol Radio Orders enabled in SH3 Commander, and had enabled the North Atlantic mod from that for the current patrol. The game continued to err out when trying to load a saved career or mission until I had disabled everything except the GWX St Naz and Schleuse mod, which was the first one I had added because I thought WB's instructions for the add'l 23 ships mod said the St Naz & Schleuse mod had to be there first. Is there a different St Naz/Schleuse mod that I should have used, or did I have some other conflict going on? Or is my system just not gonna run the game with everything enabled that I was trying to use? I'm running Windows XP Pro 32 bit AMD Athlon II X2 240 2.8 GHz AM3 Processor Asus M3A78-EM motherboard ATI Radeon HD4650 1 GB PCIe graphics card Asus Xonar DX PCIe sound card 6 GB DDR2 RAM (of which Windows recognizes about 3.8 G, but I had the sticks so they're in there) if any of that matters to my dilemma. Thanks in advance for any advice/answers etc.!