Now that I've progressed from the 'canoe' to the VIIB I'm staying out on patrols longer and having to use the crew management system a lot more. I actually quite like some aspects of it, but like others I've noticed a definite issue with regular crashes whilst attempting to move crew around. This is pretty much the only gripe I've got with the game so far and it definitely only happens in the crew management window. My problem is I keep getting so involved with what's going on I sometimes simply forget to save after key events (like just now losing 4 hours worth of effort on a great patrol - my fault for forgetting to save - but it's still in my opinion an issue that seems widespread enough to be seriously looked at).

I'm not running a bunch of programs in the background, and while my PC isn't state of the art, it's in pretty good shape (regular defragmenting, so on and so forth).

I'm wondering whether anyone knows whether this issue is being investigated as for me it's the only glitch in a near perfect simulation.

Cheers

It is now.

I have the same crash to desktop problem (and a blue screen once?!?). Mine always occur when crew is moving around, either automatically or manually. I notice my hard drive spins up when I swap crew positions for some reason also.

The game crash doesn't leave an event log so I can't post that. I'll check tonight to see if the blue screen left an event log.

I've learned to save often and in new slots. This has gotten me past my blind SHIII crash rage pretty well. The main issue now is that I'm playing dead is dead and I feel like I'm cheating when I get a second chance to attack the same convoy/destroyer due to a CTD.

Try this, it worked for me:

- Reinstall SH3 + 1.2 patch
- Always use new savegame files to save your patrols. Never overwrite old savegames.

I used to get ctd's all the time whenever I did something related to crew management: push the buttons in F7 screen, man the deck gun/flak...
On a fresh install everything was ok. Then after a few hours of playing and restarting the ctd's would occur consistently.
Since I use the above method I've never had a ctd (two weeks of intensive playing).

I notified Ubi Support about this problem. They told me to update my graphics drivers Didn't make a difference. I then told them about the possible workaround - still the same graphics drivers - they filed it as "solved".

Hope it helps!

Sorry to hear some of you have CTD`s when using crew management, I`ve never had a prob with this, and I play for hours on end, each patrol I name, 1st patrol Shark1, I may make many saves while on that patrol usually after sinking a ship, overwriting the old files as I continue my patrol, after returning to base, and starting a new patrol Shark2, and so on, never had to reinstall, I use manual, and auto crew management, and have always had excellent results. Hope you guys get it sorted out. Puts

I had this problem early on and thought it had to do with the grammaphone playing so I disabled it. Hadn't had the problem since until yesterday. Was home sick so I got to play for a long time. Was not having any problems moving the crew around either individually, with the select and right-click method, or with the buttons (bottom right). Then it happened, clicked one of the buttons to go into surfae cruise mode and black screen then desk-top.

I had a CTD the 1st time I clicked an auto-assign button for the crew...I don't touch those anymore, and no-more CTD's.

The crash happens when crew are shifted, it doesn't matter if it's manual or automatic or auto-assign.

That's odd, buddy...what are your swap-file settings?

Default. I don't think this is an OS issue though, it's game related.

I'll try to post error logs tonight if I find any. I doubt I will though as that was my first recourse when this initially happened.