career play is stuck

pmcmull · 01-16-24, 01:38 AM

I am trying to do a career in SH3 with the Onealex mod. I'm on the 4th patrol in Jan 1940 with a type VIIb uboat. It is getting more and more difficult to load a save and continue. On the latest save my attempts to work around are not succeeding. I look in task manager before starting SH3 commander and kill several tasks to reduce memory usage. The largest one being Microsoft Onedrive. This has worked until now. Loading the save gets to most of the way full on the red progress bar. Then it quits and dumps me out to the desktop with no message. Very frustrating.

pmcmull · 01-17-24, 12:54 AM

Adding some info if it helps

Generic Mod Enabler - v2.6.0.157
[M:\OneAlexSilentHunter\GWX Onealex Edition 1.53\SH3\MODS]

Das Boot Music
Negative buoyancy
Seafloor texture 1024 X 1024
U-Boat VIIB (Skin 3) Turm 1-2
New Water (Atlantic)

System info
CPU I3-10100
Ram 16 GB
GPU Geforce GTX 1050 Ti
OS Windows 10 pro 64-bit

UPDATE: I think I figured it out. I did not have LargeAddressAware applied to this copy of SH3. Just had a successful session on the patrol. But a long time underwater to evade 2 very persistent destroyers.

Hooston · 01-17-24, 03:31 PM

Crashing part way through a career is a common symptom of problems around memory addressing. Usually it's lack of a 4GB patch or the equivalent HSie hard coded fixes - or they are not properly installed as it is a real pain to patch sh3.exe and set it up in JSGME.
i thought OneAlex had set up everything, but looks like you found a way to break it.

For some reason the save game files grow considerably throughout a career. This smells to me like a memory leak coding error as the game does not seem to need to save so much data. Anybody know what is in the big files? Anyone ever tried to fix it, for example via SH3 Commander?

pmcmull · 01-17-24, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hooston

Crashing part way through a career is a common symptom of problems around memory addressing. Usually it's lack of a 4GB patch or the equivalent HSie hard coded fixes - or they are not properly installed as it is a real pain to patch sh3.exe and set it up in JSGME.
i thought OneAlex had set up everything, but looks like you found a way to break it.

For some reason the save game files grow considerably throughout a career. This smells to me like a memory leak coding error as the game does not seem to need to save so much data. Anybody know what is in the big files? Anyone ever tried to fix it, for example via SH3 Commander?

Like I said when I edited the earlier post, it turned out I had not run the LargeAddressAware patch to that copy of SH3. It looks like I am on my way again now. I had recently added an SSD drive (faster!!) and put new installs on the new volume. But missed a step.

Kal_Maximus_U669 · 01-19-24, 02:29 PM

The Onealex mod is one of the easiest to operate.
I wonder who has memory leaks

...come on...let's be serious...gentleman...
here an example of an install path D:\Sh3\SilentHunterIIIOneAlex
Now the mod is already patched 4go
go here to change the parameters Stiebler is another...
D:\Sh3\SilentHunterIIIOneAlex\Support\Stiebler4C_V 16B1
in this folder bring back your sh3 exe activate HsieOptionsSelector_V16B
choose your options then say ok.. it's patching...lol
Read the recommendations provided with the mods to cover memory leaks.
I hope I have been clear and wish you good fun..
I would like to point out that the original Stiebler parameters of the sh3 exe have already been patched... its recommended by Alex himself..

01-16-24, 01:38 AM	#1
pmcmull Bosun Join Date: Aug 2023 Location: Phoenix AZ Posts: 65 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 0	career play is stuck I am trying to do a career in SH3 with the Onealex mod. I'm on the 4th patrol in Jan 1940 with a type VIIb uboat. It is getting more and more difficult to load a save and continue. On the latest save my attempts to work around are not succeeding. I look in task manager before starting SH3 commander and kill several tasks to reduce memory usage. The largest one being Microsoft Onedrive. This has worked until now. Loading the save gets to most of the way full on the red progress bar. Then it quits and dumps me out to the desktop with no message. Very frustrating.

01-17-24, 12:54 AM	#2
pmcmull Bosun Join Date: Aug 2023 Location: Phoenix AZ Posts: 65 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 0	Adding some info if it helps Generic Mod Enabler - v2.6.0.157 [M:\OneAlexSilentHunter\GWX Onealex Edition 1.53\SH3\MODS] Das Boot Music Negative buoyancy Seafloor texture 1024 X 1024 U-Boat VIIB (Skin 3) Turm 1-2 New Water (Atlantic) System info CPU I3-10100 Ram 16 GB GPU Geforce GTX 1050 Ti OS Windows 10 pro 64-bit UPDATE: I think I figured it out. I did not have LargeAddressAware applied to this copy of SH3. Just had a successful session on the patrol. But a long time underwater to evade 2 very persistent destroyers. Last edited by pmcmull; 01-17-24 at 04:22 AM.

01-17-24, 03:31 PM	#3
Hooston Soundman Join Date: Jun 2020 Posts: 145 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	4GB blues Crashing part way through a career is a common symptom of problems around memory addressing. Usually it's lack of a 4GB patch or the equivalent HSie hard coded fixes - or they are not properly installed as it is a real pain to patch sh3.exe and set it up in JSGME. i thought OneAlex had set up everything, but looks like you found a way to break it. For some reason the save game files grow considerably throughout a career. This smells to me like a memory leak coding error as the game does not seem to need to save so much data. Anybody know what is in the big files? Anyone ever tried to fix it, for example via SH3 Commander?

01-19-24, 02:29 PM	#5
Kal_Maximus_U669 Sea Lord Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: France Nord East Posts: 1,672 Downloads: 817 Uploads: 0	The Onealex mod is one of the easiest to operate. I wonder who has memory leaks ...come on...let's be serious...gentleman... here an example of an install path D:\Sh3\SilentHunterIIIOneAlex Now the mod is already patched 4go go here to change the parameters Stiebler is another... D:\Sh3\SilentHunterIIIOneAlex\Support\Stiebler4C_V 16B1 in this folder bring back your sh3 exe activate HsieOptionsSelector_V16B choose your options then say ok.. it's patching...lol Read the recommendations provided with the mods to cover memory leaks. I hope I have been clear and wish you good fun.. I would like to point out that the original Stiebler parameters of the sh3 exe have already been patched... its recommended by Alex himself..