SH4 Crashing When Ranging?
 

So I recently started playing SH4 and I managed to get it to run satisfactory after a bit. I was doing the torpedo training mission to learn the new control layout of the game from III and when I pressed the ranging button and aligned the bottom of the second ship projected to the top and clicked to register it, the game froze and crashed to desktop. This happens every time I do it and I don't know what is causing it or how to fix it! I have the 4GB patch and LAA on, Windows 8 compatibility, run as admin, etc. Has anyone by chance encountered this before and knows how what I must to do stop this?

Please, tell us if your game is modded or vanilla. I never see this problem in my SH4 (and I play it from 2008...)

Do you have SH4 1.5?

Best regards.

Fitzcarraldo :Kaleun_Salute:

I don't think it is modded, I don't see any mod file or JSGME but maybe it's in a different spot than I'm used to. I don't know the version, I think it might be 1.0? If you can tell me how to check it I'll get back to you with the info. :Kaleun_Salute:

You can navigate into your game folder, find the SH4.exe file, right-click on it, then left-click on "Properties", look on the Details tab. About the middle of the page will be "Product version: 1, x, x, x", with the "x" there representing numbers. 1, 5 is version 1.5 with the U-Boats. That is also another way to tell which version you have, is if you have the U-Boats Career option, then you have v1.5... :salute:

Thanks, so mine is apparently 1.0 version. Does this have any bearing on its stability?

Oh my... an original disk version? I had one of those, and when I lost it, I was not very upset... lol - It was almost as bad as SH5... or SH3... or SH2, when they all first came out... :roll:

Give this a shot:

Silent Hunter v1.4 Update

You will have to empty the Save folder (C:\Users \UserName \Documents \SH4), then put the new executable in your game folder, run it, and it will update your version to v1.4, which is much much better, though there are not very many mods left that run on it... If you want to use some of the "newer" mods (after 2008), you'll need a v1.5, aka: Gold Edition, with the U-Boat Missions. Ubisoft sells it as a software download still:

Silent Hunter 4 Gold DLC

Both Ubi and Steam still have it, and for usually $10US, but it will go "on sale" for $3US sometimes... and Labor Day is coming up soon...

Thanks a ton. Yeah I got it off of an old copy my dad had so it seems he had the really ancient version. :) Is there an older version of the Real Fleet Boat mod that works for v1.4 or something like that?

Edit: I saw this video for a mod that adds the Soviet theater and it looks totally sick, does that work in 1.4 too or does it need 1.5 only?

Indeed. You need to go to the ubisoft site and patch it to 1.4 OR buy Wolves of the Pacific UBOAT missions on steam or something. 1.0 was terrible.