Don't touch it unless you are sure what you are doing is good advice.

Speaking of adjusting files that affect the game, I'll pop this in here.... (although I may be committing heresy). I recommend you try RFB by itself over the Stock install & campaign (with the Special Missions corrected) and get a feel for RFB in its 'pure' form. If you really want a different campaign than Stock, then there is an off site campaign; 'Guerrilla Submarines Spyron Mod' campaign you can find with a search engine that you might like.

RSRD is a good campaign mod and many people like it however it may change some files in RFB that may have you playing 'RSRD Boat' instead, with its settings, some of which may be different than the carefully adjusted files in the RFB mod.

RFB doesn't correct the Special Missions, however Dgreyson aka Florida Sailor made a mod that corrected them. His mod is probably around here somewhere, or should be.

Happy Hunting!

RSRD doesn't change or alter how RFB functions, only the game's campaign layer structure, so you're going to get RBF in its "pure" form whether you use RSRD or not.

I'm not a fan of the stock campaigns, special missions or not. Frankly, I don't see any point in running RFB without RSRD (or the compatible OM, for that matter), and there is no reason not to run them both other than personal preference. Others choose to run stock campaigns and that's fine.

To each his own, I know I'm a minority in my thinking and wasn't intending to start anything - Peace.

I'm not a fan of the Stock campaign either which is why I use something different. After many RSRD Careers one can develop foreknowledge and I was looking for a change.

Happy Hunting!

Ill let you all know what happens when i get my PC working. Just i recall last time i played, i had an issue where the destroyers were literally blind mainly at night and i could be literally next to them and they wouldn't attack me. also is the 2.0.7 just the update that is included in the first post with RFB 2.0?

Recently reinstalled this old favorite and trying the mod.

Problem is, it won't load. the Loading bar on the splash screen doesn't fill and there are error messages-missing files, etc.

Playing the steam version.

I hope you can use LAA and you are not installed to the protected Program Files (x86) location.

Check out the helpful Tutorials sticky Topics.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=219029

Welcome to Subsim and Happy Hunting!

Check to make sure you're using SH4 version 1.5 (the u-boat addon).

If you try to run a mod made for 1.5 (such as this) on 1.4 or below, it will fail with missing file messages.

AA positions in Crew Panel
 

Hey yall, I have a quick question about RFB. I can't seem to access the AA spots while underway in the crew panel. The gauges keep blocking it. I am using the current version of RFB with all the patches. Do yall have any suggestions, because every once in a while I would like to be able to use my Bofors. Thanks yall.

What screen resolution are you using in the game Options? You should set your video card driver for Windows to the same setting as the LCD monitor's "Native" resolution, which Windows will refer to as "Recommended". Once you are set for that for Windows, start the game and at the main menu, choose "Options", then "Graphic Settings". In the upper-left of that is a drop-down box for "Game Resolution". Set that to match your video card / LCD display settings.

As an example, my LCD monitor (old NEC MultiSync 1850E) has a "Native" resolution of 1280x1024. If I look in my Windows "Screen Resolution" dialog, I have it set to that figure, which is "(recommended)". I have my SH4 "Options", "Graphic Settings", "Game Resolution" set to the same at 75Hz refresh, and all dial, menu items, etc., display fine. Your game sounds like it might be set to the "default" of 1024x768, which kind of crams everything into a smaller space... :salute:

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Thanks for the quick response. I’m currently running at its recommended setting 3840X2160 16:9 at 60Hz. I’m running it on my laptop so that should explain the craz dimension. When I first reinstalled SH4 on my current laptop I had to fiddle with the resolution because all the writing was absolutely tiny and unreadable. Now at least it’s readable, but I will play with the resolution again and see if I can get it better.

Edit:

Well that was weird, in the options it said I was running it at the recommended resolution, but when I clicked on it to double check and reselected it, it shrunk everything back to being almost unreadable haha. So apparently I wasn’t on my recommended settings. But I changed it to 1920X1080 16:9 at 60Hz and it’s good now. The writing and icons are still a little small but I will get used to them. And more importantly now I can access my whole crew menu.

Do you have the OTC update to this old mod?!?


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We would have to wait for someone more familiar with the higher resolutions to come along and address the use of something in the 3840x2160 range, but as you found, using an 'equivalent' ratio resolution (16:9 in your case) that is lower, can help. :salute:

The mod crashes when I try to go to any external view (free camera, periscope...). Any ideas?

With nothing to go on:
> What are your machine specs, especially the OS (32 or 64 bit), GPU, system RAM, and GPU RAM
> What game version is installed
> What other mods are installed
> Is your GPU driver obsolete
> Have you done any tinkering to any files yourself


It is unusual for the game to crash from simply switching to an external view, this after a mission, scenario, or campaign having already loaded and running I'm assuming. My initial guess is insufficient memory, either system or GPU.