I see, thanks for the fast reply!

Welcome aboard!
 

Aww I deleted those shortly after I was sure HT was working :doh:

I´m finding duds seem to come in bunches. I´ll get 2 or 3 in a row then none for a while. I also find that the more of a right angle shot the less likely it duds. Just wait til you get the torpedo which appears to go right through the target, that is quite annoying. Seems to happen with destroyers quite a bit.

They are different in each opbective

When you get your mission orders it will say to patrol an area. You will then get radio message with new info "Patrol AN5517 zone radius 120 km. Time of patrol 48 hours. BdU"

Is this not happening?

So I am finding HT rather more like boring times. I am blanking many patrols and crew morale seems very delicate. They are down a few morale points within a week or so of patrol time as there is nothing to sink. The chef seems only good for about 1 special meal, then because morale is so low he wont even cook another a week later. I have been using a lot of promotion points on the Bosun´s passive morale abilities, but it doesn't seem to help much.

The radio convoy contact reports often don´t actually show up in the Captains log info (long/lat) so no way of knowing which report is where in order to gauge if its a lead worth following or can be caught without burning too much precious fuel.

Also the grids i am being sent to appear to have no traffic whatsoever so instead of burning fuel often i just sit there and wait the 48/72 hours, submerging once in a while to check the hyrdophone. Lots of whales, no ships :D

I haven't gotten that far yet but I will let you know if it isn't. Like I said I am new to SH5 and I don't have awhole lot of time to play so it's going to take some time.

It's okay bro, no need to apologize. I was just explaining my situation is all.

So I reinstalled WOS as about half way through Happy Times I could not get out of Lorient/Brest area without CTDs. Tried various times on minor time compression without luck. Also tried restoring the bunker save at Lorient and choosing new mission but each time i reached about 100 KM from Lorient on way to Atlantic I had a CTD. No error messages. I was experiencing this once in a while before usually when returning to port or approaching enemy ports on patrol. But usually in those cases a reloading a save fixed the problem.

I am aware of the need to use low time compression near ports/land.

So I am wondering if there are some settings I can use or any other mods I can load after WOS which might limit the amount of CTDs? I only have 4 gig RAM so could that be a problem?

Any advice much appreciated as with this many CTDs it is becoming almost unplayable.

Because I'm not an expert in SH5, I'll share my own opinion based on my own experience:
I have Win 7 Ultimate Pro OS, CPU- AMD Athlon X4 5350 /2.05GHz/ 2MB Cache/ AM1, GPU Nvidia GeForce GT 705-DDR III 2 GB, RAM-DDR III-8 GB, HDD 2 TB. I'm playng the SH5-TWOS Upd 12 from two months without any CTD. The game runs very light and stable. In comparison, in the past I've tried it whith 4 GB RAM and it was baad.
In other hand, it is always recommended to use as lower TC as possible near ports and shore, also potential action zones. It is a good idea to load your last save, then quit without new save and reload the same.

Try to save and restart your game completely approximately 50-60 km from the port, or just before you expect your game to CTD...
Also , error report from windows event viewer would be helpful...



Only 4GB of RAM here too, but my Atlantic patrols are very stable even if I sometimes ignore my own tips for stable gameplay...:yep:.
I hope you haven't "over tweaked" something recently...:hmm2:

Okay thanks. In that case it´s not my rig that is the problem. I will try the reload, then restart game and reload again trick.

Yes I just came back from 2nd mission based at Wilhelmshaven and used 32 TC into port with no CTD. Fingers crossed.

No I haven't over-clocked or tweaked anything. I have the TC settings as instructed in the TWOS install procedure.

I looked at the Windows event viewer, could not find anything. Is there something or a specific log i should be looking at?

Yes the reload usually works when its a coming into port CTD, though admittedly I usually do not restart the game, just reload, but it usually works. The CTD i kept having in my last campaign in HT about December 1940 was leaving Lorient and heading in a WNW direction. About 100-150 km out it would CTD. Tried many different things, nothing worked. I even rebooted computer, and then restarted SH5, reloaded the bunker save, chose another mission set out again and CTD continued. Maybe I had a corrupt set of saves from the Bunker save?

Oh well, making my way through Total Germany again. Just intercepted a massive convoy in North Sea, off a radio lead which happened close by luckily. No duds! Sunk 3 for 14k tons! I was thinking, please dont CTD now :-)

Low ram mem (4gb) with a high vid card ram (2gb) is the worst combo under a 32 bit OS:arrgh!:

hehe oh great. I guess i should get another 4 gig ram, just been too lazy.