SHIII NEVER crashed on your system? please share!

[TASKFORCE1x1]

I have 2 PC's that NEVER crashed while playing SHIII at its top quality. Who else has similar experiences?

What I mean by crash is SHIII complete shutdown.

Its fine by me for a popup like a windows notification like a disconnected dialup notice to force SHIII to minimize. It happened to me but its not SHIII's fault. I clicked SHIII on my taskbar and I continued where I left off.

[TASKFORCE1x1]

I have 2 PC's that NEVER crashed while playing SHIII at its top quality. Who else has similar experiences?

What I mean by crash is SHIII complete shutdown.

Its fine by me for a popup like a windows notification like a disconnected dialup notice to force SHIII to minimize. It happened to me but its not SHIII's fault. I clicked SHIII on my taskbar and I continued where I left off.

[HeibgesU999]

Yep, 2 Pentium 4 3.06 Machines, One with 6800GT and one with ATI 9600. Neither has crashed even once during gameplay.

on the one with the 6800gt, I got the bug where you have to cut and paste the career saves back and forth to desktop.

on the 9600gt i get a minor drop in framerate when sitting at the dock in port with all the folks waving and the band playing, but that is all.

[U-49]

I've been playing and thorougly enjoying this wonderful sim since March 18. In all that time and countless hours of playing, it has never crashed once -- not so much as a hiccup.

Then again, my system is stable, optimized, efficient and updated with current drivers, service packs etc. I firmly believe that 99% of the challenges (not speaking to SH3's bugs) people are plagued with are solely attributed to the current state of their systems.

In any event, I feel confident that once the devs are able to address the bugs in an all encompassing patch and are confident in its stability -- we'll see it released soon enough.

Kudos to Strategic Simulations for a truly outstanding release!

[EDtheHead6445]

Ive never had a CTD, or any type of annoying bug or crash which kills the game. My machine? P4 2.66Ghz, ATI Radeon 9800Pro, 768Mb RAM. This is the most stable game ive played in a very long time- and can rival console games for stability.

[DonoDaCabeca]

ADM 2400+ (2GHz)
512 ram
nVIDIA GFti4200

playing max settings and NEVER crashed.
great game http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[jrkob2000]

AMD Athlon XP 2800+, Win2000, GeForce5900XT.

Not a single crash.

[Wordeee]

This game has also run for for me smooth right out of the box.(Seetings on Max) Here is what im running:
SOLTEK 75FRN2-L NFORCE2
Athlon XP 2500+ at 1.833 GHZ (no overclocking)
ATI Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro (no overclocking)
512 MB DDR RAM in Dual Channel Mode
LG DVD-Rom 16X

Wordeee

[AdEridanus]

I've never had a crash either. The only hiccups I ever consistently get is when I return into the area around my port, the game will freeze for a few seconds while it does something. Probably just loading up details on the port itself, or something like that. Extremely stable for me, but I also have a stable system like mentioned above.

[PHX]

Same here. Two PC's - one P4 2.8 with Geforce Ti4600 and one AMD64 3500+ with ATI X700 and have not had any CTD's. (Unless you're referring to Crash inTo Destroyers. I have had a couple of those! http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif)

[Zorasht]

Same here. More than one week playing daily and it runs fine, zero probs, on an AMD64 3500+ 1GB RAM Gainward 6800GT.
As someone mentioned above, probably many people who has CTDs is due lack of system care.

[AW3rdUp]

Never had a crash in SHIII (nor any issue with Starforce, for that matter....all my drives, usb storage, and my back software all work as before). I even play with GameVoice running in the background for voice communications and voice commands:
"ahead flank!",
"ja Sirkommandant! voran Flanke"


AMD 2500 @2Gig
1 GB DDR 3200 dual
WD 20 GB IDE HD
Sony DVD ROM
GeForce 5700 Ultra
Windows XP SP2 (actually, a pretty old install of XP)

All I've done is keep spyware off my system, defrag often, free up diskspace often, and shut down any background applications I don't need running.

[Baron_J]

0 crashes here:

Windows XP Pro, SP1
AMD XP 2400+
1.0 GB RAM
ATI 9800 Pro 256MB

[Bulwark_]

Yeah I have two PC's but one of them I wouldn't even try it on! But the one I use:
P4 2.4
1Gig ram
Ati Radeon 9000 128 meg
XP Home SP2
It's never crashed on me!

[JudoHedgehog]

AMD XP 2000
1024 MB Crucial RAM
GeForce 4 4400ti
SB Audigy Gamer

No Crashes.

[diveatc]

works with no crashes

[StellarRat]

None here. Home built AMD 3000 XP Barton. 1 gig RAM. Audigy2 sound. 6800GT graphic. Windows 2000 SP4 OS.

[LordBane2005B]

I've never had a crash

Athlon64 3500+
Asus A8V Mb
2Gb DDR Ram
Geforce6800 Ultra
Audigy2 ZS

The only problem I have with the game is the anoying popping sound I get.

[CapnAJ]

Not one crash for me.

Running SHIII smooth and settings maxed out on:-

Athlon XP 2800+
1 GB RAM
120 GB HDD
nForce 2 mobo
6800GT
Audigy 2 ZS.

[BloodyBucket]

Not one crash, P4 2.66 TI4200 768megs RAM. I have a seperate partition for my paging file.
Onboard sound.
Runs fine, a little choppy during map time compression and big explosions. New video card might solve that.

[Slackme]

Running without a hitch here. All settings maxed.

AMD 3500 64 bit
Gigabyte Nforce 4 MB
1GB DDR 3200
MSI x800pro 256 MB PCI-X

[Stefan_246]

No problems so far

Mobo: MSI K8T NEO
Cpu: Amd Athlon 64 3200+
Memory: 1 GB Kingston Hyperx CL2 400Mhz
Harddrive: seagate 120 GB
Videocard: POV 6800GT
DVD Recorder: Liteon 811s

[steve_v]

5 days, no problems

abit nf7-s
barton 2500+ @ 200x11
9800 pro 410/369, 4xaa, 16xAF
aud 2 ZS
1024 RAM 6-3-3-2

4xaa, 16xAF

Sweet http://home.earthlink.net/~viner45/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/082.gif

[vonPletz]

Works fine here, no crashes, freezes or lockups http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[steiner562]

I had a sound problem(now fixed) but the game has never crashedhttp://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[horrido1962_]

DFI Lanparty UT nF3 250gb
AMD 64 3400+
512Mb Ram recently upgraded to 1G
6800GT

Lots and lots of bugs - mostly just anoying, but no crashes.

[Capt.LoneRanger]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Lots and lots of bugs - mostly just anoying, but no crashes. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

name 5 of the many, many

[faust451]

No problems here,

P4 @ 2.5 GHz
768 MB RAM
128 MB Radeon 9800 Pro

[uboatbeast]

http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif Hello, I love to play SH3 for hours and my computer NEVER CRASHED. I can play all day and I never had any problems. By the way, my machine is high spec and tricked out. AMD Athlon 64XP, 3Ghz, NVidia GeForce NX6800 w/ 256Mb RAM graphics card, 2.048Gb DDR RAM, Audigy 2 Gamer sound card, MSI motherboard. I once played SH3 for 8 hours straight!

[Mark_Perry123]

hey never crashed on mine too runs quite good just was having vid problems i guess everyone got vid cards with the picel thing on it, well both of my cards dont, so i get rambow looking crew and rainbow efect when the parscope is coming out of the water, and the water doesn't look real as the screen shots no bubbes but at least i can see the ater wiith my better card the 128 MB nvida MX4000 wouldn't rneder water at all jsut the sun, the sub has no problems grafic wise so now i ma having to use the old ATI Radon 7000 64 MB one jsut ot get the water, any sugestions

[csargemg]

No technical problems at all. I play on a 2.0 GhZ Pentium 4-M laptop with an nVidia GeForce GoFX 5600 (64MB) with 512 MB of RAM.

The game runs just fine. The only setting I have below max is non-High textures, and while I'll occasionally get a tiny bit of slowdown as the band loads in port (nowhere else) and occasionally in 1024x time compression, the game runs like a dream.

My only problem with the game is one of design: there seems to be some kind of lack of thermal layers or something. I find that it's easy for destroyers to detect me with ASDIC at 100 meters, and impossible for them to detect me at 20 meters. If I destroy a convoy or am about to be attacked, all I have to do is set periscope depth, retract that puppy, rig for silent running, and nobody ever finds me. Is this really accurate?

[NietzscheMadMan]

Only crash I've ever had was one I should have seen coming...In virtual view (Shift-F2) I attempted to go beyond the boundaries of what was modeled.

Other than that, I've never had any problems with SHIII at all. Everything maxed out and running strong.

GeForce 6800 OC 128MB
SB Audigy 2
Dell 8300 P4 3ghz, 1 GB RAM

[Bubblehead1948]

http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif All settings maxed. On 3rd patrol.
Having a ball. Noticed some of the afore mentioned voice and frogman bugs, but nothing more than a minor annoyance. Certainly no crashes.

Using asus a7n8x-e
ati x800
amd Athlon 2800+

All seems well.

[glenninoz]

My computer has CTD a couple of times while in sub management screen . All my specs are recommended except for ram, i only have minimum 512megs of ram . When i get 1gig of ram(recommended) i will comment again on CTDs.

[Hiriyu]

No crashes with SHIII at all. Chugs a little on 1024x compression on nav-map, but that is a non issue.

Windows 2000
P4 2.66
9800Pro
1 Gig PC2700

[GaryT1957]

No crashes on my system.

Gary

[SaddestWookiee]

One CTD in 2 weeks of playing. Not bad since the previous patch of CS was causing my video drivers to die every half hour...

This game has been good to me.

[Lost_Lamb]

XP3000+ @ 1700 mhz (not stable at 2100 mhz)
1 GB Ram
Leadtek Winfast K7NCR18G pro II MB w/ NForce2 chipset
Radeon 9700 pro with Catalyst 4.9 and now Catalyst 5.3.
SB Audigy2

One lockup trying to switch to desktop. Sort of saw it coming because I had far too much running in the background.

Also have had recoverable dissappearing savegames and the premature war has ended bug.

[TASKFORCE1x1]

Aside from the typical known bugs that we the people and the dev team know about its great to know many of us run SHIII just fine with our systems. This is reassuring. Now the people who have problems with SHIII crashing knows its their systems not SHIII.

Same as an automobile. If you own a sports car and the manufacture suggests you to put hightest in it but you put in cheap gas, dont expect high performance. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Please everyone else add to this thread if you havent already but only if your system has never crashed with SHIII. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif

[unknownsouljah]

no crashes whatsoever. love this game. please fix insects. err....bugs. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
ps. have not tried multiplayer yet. spring has sprung. woot!
winxphome servpk2
asusp4p800
p4 3.2 hyper thread
2x 512mb corsair pc3200
atiradeon x800pro 256mb cat 4.12
lite-on 1633s
sb live
cable
router

[indylavi]

I will say I've played for the past 3 days without a crash. However, I do get random CTD but it's still stable. Also remember, that just because it's working great for us doesn't mean it is for others. There are a lot of driver/hardware conflicts that devs can't program for so let's not beat up on those having problems http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Heartland]

Not a single crash here either, currently on my sixth patrol (haven't had time to play as much as I'd like, heh) after completing training. Like others have mentioned it chugs a bit on x1024 time compression, but otherwise runs like a charm.

WinXP Home SP2
P4 3.2GHz
256Mb 9800XT card
1 gig internal

[ShadowDancer666]

Athlon 64 3000
1meg ram
160 hd
FX 5700 256mb GC latest Nvid driver
XP Home
SP2

On patrol 5 - seen no bugs other than UZO and am unable to connect to any multiplayer (I know about firewalls etc)

[BRAVO_01]

On 18th patrol no crashs or problems

intel P/3.4
asus p4c800-e deluxe
2 gigs kingston hyper x ram CL 2-2-2-5-1
2 200 gig WD sata drives (raid 0)
evga 6800 ultra
audigy 2 zs
asus 1604 dvd burner
antec 550 P/S

[Ionian]

No crashes here... http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif

[wvannes]

Playing for about 20 hours now on maximum settings and never crashed;

AMD2500+
1 Gb
ATI9700

Fantastic game

[NKVDcrazyivan]

http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gifi to have had no CTD,but i have noticed a frame drop in port when lots of figures present.
a hint for all those that want to get more out of those already great graphics...........
if you have a Ati go to your Ati panel and turn up your FSAA to full and also Anti Stropic Filter to full.what a differance to the looks no jaggys and it makes the set rez rating look like 1600x1200.

3.2p4 800fsb with HT
1 gig dual array 800fsb ram
800xt pro 25 mg power colour vid card
audigy x gamer
19inch ctr flat screen viewsonic pro
win xp pro sp2
lastest in all drivers Cats for vid card etc....
875 pe MSI mb 800 fsb
2x 80g 8 meg cach HDs western diggys

[Dominicrigg]

Me me me me me!!

Well i lie, it did crash once, but that was when i had AOL open, about 8 explorer windows, download peer to peer thingy, and then i minimised to desktop and opened the mission editor with the game still running lol.

It worked for about 5 minutes then blue screened on me rofl.
To be expected with only 512 meg ram!!

I can normally run both at once though http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif


Athlon T-bird 1.33 (Formally known as 1.4 till fried)
RAdeon 128 meg 9600xt
512 meg ddr 2100 ram
Epox 8KHA board. (with power supply welded on the back since meltdown...)
One happy sub captain http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Eposos]

No problems at all. Several diferent machines, always clean boot. No othere programs/task running.

[Quelthanas]

No crashes here except when I try to edit some innerfiles (ie changing my u-boot to bismarck, change max speed or depht...)

[c_mattio]

I have had one crash. I'm not sure what was going on, but the first time I played it, I had a CTD. I think I had just accidentally clicked on one of the crew management buttons in the damage screen, but since then a few drops in frame rate in big convoys with lots of smoke but nothing else (apart from the odd bug - LOL - but doesn't reduce enjoyability).

Pentium 4 2.5 GHz
512 Mb DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9800SE 256Mb
Win XP SP2 (Home)

However, I must point out my computer is possessed by a schizophrenic demon so its a wonder its only crashed the once. I've had a few problems since I downloaded XP SP2...

[aquilifer]

No problems with crashes

ASUS p4p mainboard
Raedon 9800 PRO
1 Gigabyt internal mem.
60 GB Harddrive

Other programmas running in the background. Google desktop, Sygate Firewall, Anti-Virus

[delphin-U190]

Hi never crashed on my system since i had installed the game and with many hours of playing.

ATHLON XP 2600+ Barton on A7N8X Deluxe
1 GB RAM
Nvidia 5900 Ultra
Sound blaster 1024 Player
Win XP SP2

Great game and no prob since the CTRL+P for the nvidia bug.

[Flyer00Jay]

I have never had a crash or any problem at all.

Alienware
Windows XP Home SP2
P4 1.8GHz
768 RAM
ATI 9600XT
40 GB HD
SB Live!

[jpinard]

No crashes whatsoever.

[missouridrifter]

I am most pleased to report that since I ran DxDiag.exe and changed my sound setting speed to basic, I have had no more reboots at all. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[gmkump]

Well, lets not get carried away here.

I've been playing solidly since the 22nd with no crashes what so ever, EXCEPT...

I ran into that save game CTD, where you would exit half way through the load screen, couldn't even enter SH3 any more. I do not think that was machine related, it was an issue with save files.

However, did I panic? Well, maybe a little. Okay, maybe a lot.

Did I go ape nuts? Well, maybe a little. Not a lot.

Did I go screaming and ranting on the SH3 Forums! Well, maybe I wanted to do just a little. But I did not.

Instead I just kept my cool, moved my career files, SH3 ran fine, moved career saves back, ran fine. Career restored, been simming ever since with no issues and a LOT of tonnage sank.

Just warning ALL of you "can't crash on me!!!" advocates that your day of recogning may come (if before future patches).

However, not a single un-workable "game stopping" bug or crash. Much better than my experience with other more famous and popular titles.

If someone is a sub sim fan at any level, you've got to be out of your mind in taking any note of the odd multiple thread spewing bug cheering miss-enchanted buyer who is trying to dive with a five to eight year old PC which crushes at depth 15 meters, only allowing enough time to get a quick peek through their monitor's periscope before chassis emplosion and sunk into the murky depths of the miss-informed.

May we have a moment of silence to show our sorrow over their misfortunes. Just a quick one, got to get back to SH3 patrol.

[LOSTMYMOJO]

I had the game since it came out and havent had a problem until a couple days ago when in the middle of a patrol it crashed to desktop, havent played it since, gonna wait for the patch.

AMD 2500+
1 gig Ram
ATI Radeon 9200 128Meg
all latest drivers

[Bonzo_Madrid]

one freze-up sound card issue but NO CTD'S p4 2.54
win xp pro no sp1 512m 1066 32 bit rambus
Ti 4600 128m pny vid
sound blaster live value
on an 80 gig HD.

[TheFastFreddie]

I've had 4 freeze ups problably due to my sound card (Sound Blaster Audigy 2) which is a cause for concern. I have all the updated drives too. So far I've lost about 20k in tonnage because of the freeze ups and since its not one event that stops the game I save often now.

[Dr...Watson]

No crashes, it did freeeze last night for 20 seconds as I approached home base, but it unfroze and all was ok.

Playing max settings on home built

Asus P4C800
P4 2.4
1GB Hyper X
9800pro

[TASKFORCE1x1]

Topic moved to Com. Help April 7 2004.

[Drebbel]

No crashes here:

P4 1.7
512 RAM
GeForce FX 5600 128 MB
Cheap soundblaster card
Win XP + all updates
Latest drivers for everything

[mightyduck100]

Rock Solid on 1.1, haven't had time to patch to 1.2 yet.

P4 3.2Ghz
2GB 400Mhz DDR SDRAM
Nvidia 6600GT 66.93 drivers
200GB Maxtor SATA
Windows XP Service Pack 2 + hotfixes.

[meowcat999]

well i've had a horrendous time with crashes and so forth ---&gt; until last night, where i played for 2 hours without one

my problems can be attributed to bad memory i think - i ran MEMTEST86+ last night (free at http://www.memtest.org/) and it exposed a problem. I spent a while juggling dimms areound and rerunning it and early indications are that the problem is fixed. (I hope)

i suspect that the game does A LOT of data crunching (calculating where all the ships are etc) and so the data transmission through the memory modules exposes problem that other games/apps do not reveal

maybe

[KarlLute]

Ran fine unitil patch 1.2 but after redoing everything and reinstalling game now have both patches and everything is fine.

[steve_v]

tomorrow will be two weeks and no crashes, ever

abit nf7-s ver2
2500+ barton running 200x11
1024 pc3200 Corsair 6-3-3-2
Audigy 2 Zs
9800 Pro, cat5.3, 410/369, 4xAA and 16xAF

[WhiteKnight77]

I just recieved the game yesterday and installed it with no problems and it is running OK so far unpatched. Link in sig to specs.

[nbooker]

I have a Sony Vaio, 463ds P4 1.4ghz, 512 ram,nvidia 4600 128 ram, soundmax integrated sound card with updated drive as 2003. Installed latest video drivers and game patches. Games starts and freezes after about 3 minutes of play. I have had this game for two months and still cannot play it. Very frustrating.

[The Avon Lady]

Dell XPS notebook, P3, 1GB RAM, ATI 9800 Mobility 256MB.

Been playing since May. Crashed only once and that was caused by a specific mod - not by the game code itself.

[kenndann]

No crashes.
WinXP Pro
ECS K7S5a Pro
768Mb DDR
Sapphire Radeon 9600Pro 128Mb
SoundBlaster Live 5.1

[ultimo1967]

Never crashed !! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/11.gif

P4 3,2
1 G ram
ATI radion 9800 pro
all max settings
http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/35.gif

Greetings, J


update: i am sorry to say that the game did crash this afternoon.
I was happy not having the problems other people hove on this forum but it looks like i am one of the "lucky"crashers
http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

[Schrambling]

1 crash in about 2 weeks. Fine otherwise except for some minor graphic bugs I need to work out.

Dell 5100
WIN XP SP2 MEDIA
P4 2.8
1G RAM
ATI RADEON X600

[rrmag001]

Amd64 3500+ with 6200nvida winxp sp2 and shIII updates not a single problem

[Michiel_88]

Not a single crash on AMD Athlon 3000+, ASUS K8V MB, NVIDIA Geforce FX5700, 1GB RAM

[Max_Height]

No crash but first game freeze tonight after 12ve successful missions.
I applied for a transfer but I got this answer:
"Transfer to: (null)" ?
I clicked OK, but I just got a new answer:
"Transfer to:GO TO GAME" and again: "..to:MISSION" etc.
then I clicked on the back arrow to get out but no, I was stucked!, I had to go to taskmanager to end the game. I launched the game again but the same happened, I then started again and went on patrol all right, but no transfer for me.
Any ideas?

Otherwise the game plays beautifully with:
AMD Barton +3200
1 gg RAM
Nvidia 6600
Win XP SP2
and the official patches

[bjon045]

Taskforce wrote: blah blah blah

It certainly does not mean that by any means!!!! It means that it only works on certain configurations, you've got roughly 62 PAGES OF POSTS full of complaining about CRASHES and you think 3 f'in pages in one post means that suddenly if is everyone else's system?!?! give me a f'in break, in my 15 years of gaming I can count on one hand the number of games that crash like SH3 does. But ****, according to you it must be my system right?

Developers should be able to code robust enough code that a game should NEVER crash directly to desktop without an error message, it means they clearly didn't even have a proper exception handling routine in their software as I never get error messages from SH3.