CTDs

[saddletank]

Unfortunately I'm getting these every few minutes now and can't progress my new Japanese campaign beyond 14th February. As the Japanese I'm placing a lot of small 'trip wire' units around to locate the Russian raiders and I'm wondering if this is just too many units for the game to handle (or rather for my CPU to handle).

I had these CTDs with my old Russian campaign that I had got to 20th March with but assumed the crashes were due to that being an old v1.010 game.

I have sent the files and save games off to SES support but was wondering if anyone else was experiencing this.

[Fitzwilliam]

Sorry to hear you are having problems. My system has been stable since v1.010 and updating directX. I do create a number of extra TFs when I play as the japanese: 3 TB TFs for patroling PA, 3 cruiser forces plus chin yen for the Tsushima straights, two cruiser TF's for the Sea of Japan, and two TF's at Assan and/or Elliot Islands to backstop the TB's patroling PA. In addition I splitout the the Gunboats and corvetes from the TF's at Masanpo-Takeshiki-Sasebo, though I never use them. I don't know how this compares with the number you create, but it is certainly a greater number of TF's than the game starts with.

I'm playing on an Intel 1.8ghz P4 w/512 megs ram.

[Brommer]

In the Japanese Campaign I started today I have exactly the same problem. It started after February 14th. Now it has become almost unplayable on Feb 16th. And I do not use many different task forces as I like to concentrate my ships. I never had CTDs ever before with this game, it just started today with my first campaign as Japanese.

[tone]

It sounds as though these may be in general game logic, but I should point out that in the original demo I crashed regularly when I'd enabled optional graphic elements (e.g.: better water modeling, etc). You might try retreating to more defaulty settings.

tone

[saddletank]

Possible my PC is being asked to run settings too high but I have been playing the game since the day it came out and while others reported lots of bugs and crashes I stuck with my Russian campaign from early days. These CTDs have definitely become a feature only since v1.015. I never had them at v1.012.

[tone]

I'd say my guess will not help you, I'm afraid. I must be running out of wisdom. :)

tone

[saddletank]

Norm has replied confirming it is a bug. When he went into my saved game and moused over one particular neutral merchant the game CTD'd every time. SES are releasing a patch asap, Norm mentioned v1.017 in his e-mail so I don't know what fix v1.016 will include.

All current v1.015 games will be OK with the new update.

My thanks to SES for the fast problem resolution.