diff --git a/Generals/Code/GameEngineDevice/Source/W3DDevice/GameClient/Shadow/W3DVolumetricShadow.cpp b/Generals/Code/GameEngineDevice/Source/W3DDevice/GameClient/Shadow/W3DVolumetricShadow.cpp
index 72efdf7b6b9..17703783976 100644
--- a/Generals/Code/GameEngineDevice/Source/W3DDevice/GameClient/Shadow/W3DVolumetricShadow.cpp
+++ b/Generals/Code/GameEngineDevice/Source/W3DDevice/GameClient/Shadow/W3DVolumetricShadow.cpp
@@ -1662,6 +1662,9 @@ void W3DVolumetricShadow::Update()
 	if( m_geometry == NULL)
 		return;
 
+	if( m_robj == NULL)
+		return;
+
 	//
 	// for now we will just rebuild a shadow volume every so often, this
 	// should be changed to be built only when the light angle sufficiently
@@ -1733,6 +1736,9 @@ void W3DVolumetricShadow::updateVolumes(Real zoffset)
 {
 	Int i,j;
 
+	if( m_robj == NULL)
+		return;
+
 	HLodClass *hlod=(HLodClass *)m_robj;
 	MeshClass *mesh;
 	static AABoxClass aaBox;