Hi all. Just asking for some help in trying to find out the cause of this issue. CTD specifically when attempting to call for fire support, with the crash happening immediately as I lay down area or linear points on the map.
This occurs with the HQS 3.3 mod installed. It doesn't happen on a fresh install with no mods, but curiously enough once the mod is installed then uninstalled, the crash persists in both cases.
This has been bothering me for a couple months now. Initially this happened with me on Black Sea, whereupon installing it on drive C:/ solved the issue for some reason. Asking other players on the Steam forum and the subreddit (I didn't have access to this forum at the time) revealed no particular link to install location given that some users have it on other drives without issue. Black Sea has so far been stable, but now Shock Force 2 is unstable.
Calling for fire support at any point in the game results in a crash 100% of the time.
I've been trying to research this issue for a while now but haven't quite come across any solutions.
I'm on a PC with an AMD R5 3600X CPU, 5600XT GPU, 16gb RAM, with Shock Force 2 having been installed on E:\ and later, D:\ drives inside their respective Steam subfolders (e.g. D:\Steam Library\steamapps\common\Combat Mission Shock Force 2)
This is particularly perplexing since I can't quite figure out why the crash happens or what could be causing the crash if the mods I've installed haven't caused anyone else any problems.
Any thoughts regarding this issue? Apologies if this is my first post in the forum, this is really my first dive into the series.
UPDATE: I've moved the install into C:\. No change. Reinstalled three times as well with same results: Adding HQS 3.3 into the Z folder causes a crash. Uninstalling HQS 3.3 and running a battle also causes a crash upon calling for artillery. So far I've added the Shock Force 2 folder and its executable into both Windows Defender and MalwareBytes exclusion lists, having the executable run in compatibility mode for Windows 7 (even experimenting with Windows XP SP3), disabling full screen optimization, changing settings in the AMD Radeon app, disabling in-game VSYNC, Anti Aliasing, and maintaining Balanced graphics settings, all to no avail. I'm just stumped. How could installing HQS 3.3 cause a crash? Additionally, how does uninstalling it and running the game still cause the crash even if the Data folder is totally cleansed of mods? I'm not even sure how my Black Sea install managed to become stable - it just happened one day.