First CTD in months... for a helmet!

pampanito · 08-07-05, 01:13 PM

After three weeks away from SH3, I prepared to resume my career with the latest stuff. I downloaded SH Commander 1.43, the latest ImprovedConvoys version (20050729) and a Hi-Res uniforms mod from Terrapin's. Too late I remembered the rule don't chage too many things at once, and I just used one .tga file from the Uniforms mod.
I activated ImprovedConvoys with JSGME.exe, launched Cdr 1.43... and had my first CTD in four months on playing SH3.

Surely you guess what followed. There must some compatibility problem with Cdr 1.43, with the new ImprovedConvoys and the other Mods I have activated (not too many: Real Uboat of course, Harbour Traffic plus a few landscape and harbour textures mods). Out with Cdr 1.43... CTD.
Out with ImprovedConvoys... CTD. After trying all possible combinations, I was still getting CTDs every time, just after the word INITIALIZING appears in screen. Worse still, it was still crashing without any new stuff!
Perhaps a corrupted save file? Tried with an old unfinished career... CTD. Tried a brand-new career... CTD. No Cdr nor RealUboat at all... CTD.

Sweating hard by now, I checked the single 01_OFF_Helmet01_D.tga I had added. Surely this couldn't be the problem. The new file had the correct name, the old one was now 01_OFF_Helmet01_D_OLD.tga. The only possibility was to re-install SH3 from scratch, but I hate to do this, as I did substitute some .tga and .jpg long ago, and I don't really remember which ones (how naive was four months ago!). So let's try this before, let's delete that new helmet file... Better still let's delete the old one...

That was it. All of a sudden, CDR 1.43, ImprovedConvoys, everything worked as a dream. I still don't understand why (many mods add new files, leaving the old ones with an alternate name, without problem), but there can only be one D_tga in drawer DATA/CREW/HELMET/OFF (and I assume in DATA/CREW/HELMET/POS as well, but I'm not going to try it!).

I bow in shame

for having doubted about the work of veteran modders... and am just posting this in the hope it can help somebody so unskilled as me and with the same problem.

lifer · 08-07-05, 02:21 PM

This happened to me too. This game is really unstable when it comes to modifications. What I really don't understand is why it sometimes takes so little to cause a CTD. Some parts of this game seem to be well progged but others lack crash preventing measures at all or so it seems.

08-07-05, 01:13 PM	#1
pampanito Mate Join Date: May 2005 Location: Spain Posts: 59 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	First CTD in months... for a helmet! After three weeks away from SH3, I prepared to resume my career with the latest stuff. I downloaded SH Commander 1.43, the latest ImprovedConvoys version (20050729) and a Hi-Res uniforms mod from Terrapin's. Too late I remembered the rule don't chage too many things at once, and I just used one .tga file from the Uniforms mod. I activated ImprovedConvoys with JSGME.exe, launched Cdr 1.43... and had my first CTD in four months on playing SH3. Surely you guess what followed. There must some compatibility problem with Cdr 1.43, with the new ImprovedConvoys and the other Mods I have activated (not too many: Real Uboat of course, Harbour Traffic plus a few landscape and harbour textures mods). Out with Cdr 1.43... CTD. Out with ImprovedConvoys... CTD. After trying all possible combinations, I was still getting CTDs every time, just after the word INITIALIZING appears in screen. Worse still, it was still crashing without any new stuff! Perhaps a corrupted save file? Tried with an old unfinished career... CTD. Tried a brand-new career... CTD. No Cdr nor RealUboat at all... CTD. Sweating hard by now, I checked the single 01_OFF_Helmet01_D.tga I had added. Surely this couldn't be the problem. The new file had the correct name, the old one was now 01_OFF_Helmet01_D_OLD.tga. The only possibility was to re-install SH3 from scratch, but I hate to do this, as I did substitute some .tga and .jpg long ago, and I don't really remember which ones (how naive was four months ago!). So let's try this before, let's delete that new helmet file... Better still let's delete the old one... That was it. All of a sudden, CDR 1.43, ImprovedConvoys, everything worked as a dream. I still don't understand why (many mods add new files, leaving the old ones with an alternate name, without problem), but there can only be one D_tga in drawer DATA/CREW/HELMET/OFF (and I assume in DATA/CREW/HELMET/POS as well, but I'm not going to try it!). I bow in shame for having doubted about the work of veteran modders... and am just posting this in the hope it can help somebody so unskilled as me and with the same problem.

08-07-05, 02:21 PM	#2
lifer Watch Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 26 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	This happened to me too. This game is really unstable when it comes to modifications. What I really don't understand is why it sometimes takes so little to cause a CTD. Some parts of this game seem to be well progged but others lack crash preventing measures at all or so it seems. __________________ suicide is not a solution - but it remains an excellent option