Starting Over...Again

[Jeff-Groves]

Win 10 Technical preview.
SH3 with GWX 3 ran fine.
Installed Version 7 and 4 gig patch... CTD.
Right click on SH3.exe set compatability mode to Win XP and check run as admin. RUNS FINE!


Only problem is I haven't found a way to use the ATI graphics yet. So it's running on the cheapy Intel graphics.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

Win 10 Technical preview.
SH3 with GWX 3 ran fine.
Installed Version 7 and 4 gig patch... CTD.
Right click on SH3.exe set compatability mode to Win XP and check run as admin. RUNS FINE!

Oh, you blithering genius! It worked! LSH3 is running fine now! I'll work on that, then load GWX as well. We'll see how it goes.

Thank you!

Only problem is I haven't found a way to use the ATI graphics yet. So it's running on the cheapy Intel graphics.

I reported in post #25 that I was having that same problem. Online I found someone who showed me that fix. If you can bring up the ATI Control Panel there should be a button marked "Make This The Default Graphics Card". At least it worked that way for this rig's Nvidia card.

[Jeff-Groves]

The Technical preview has the wrong drivers installed.
I'm DLing the Acer version for Win 8 64 now to try.

Guess I got that goofy sticker over
<- there for a reason.

[Sailor Steve]

Having gotten the career mode to work in LSH3 (thanks again, Jeff), I decided to explore that supermod a bit. The first very cool thing I discovered is that they included FB Sales's Simfeeling 6-Dials mod, one of my very favorites! With LSH3 I don't have to fiddle with all the adjustments to the Menu.ini - just activate it with JSGME and you're ready to go! The same is true of the OLC_GUI. Of course the two don't work together, but if you're a fan of either one you can get them installed with no muss or fuss.

One of the things I don't like so far is that the Weather Report is still attached to the Navigator, so you can find out what it's like from 150 meters under the sea. GWX has that shifted to the Watch Officer, so you can only get the report on the surface.

Still, that's a small thing. Kiel is more like the real thing in layout, and the Canal is there with all the proper bridges. Tomorrow I'll reinstall GWX and see if the Schluese mod v7 will work now. Of course that mod was taken from LSH3, so if it doesn't I can have fun with that one. We'll see.

[Sailor Steve]

Got GWX reinstalled, and the Wilhelmshaven, St Naz, Schluese etc v7 installed, and it runs fine now. Tomorrow I can start the long process of installing all the other stuff I like.

[Fubar2Niner]

Congrats Steve, glad you're making headway at last.

Best regards.
Fubar2Niner

[Sailor Steve]

More Fun & Games, and being an idiot.

I reinstalled the Simfeeling 6-Dials mod, and got it wrong as usual. It usually takes me two or three tries before it works properly. I made a copy of the Menu.ini file and got to work. I screwed it up. I tried again. I made it worse. Deciding I wasn't going to be able to salvage it I dumped It and started over with the copy. I wasn't sure if I had it right, so it was time to test it again. I loaded it up and it didn't even make it to the main screen. Actually it did, for about one second, then it crashed. Then I crashed. I hadn't made another copy.

I set it aside, expecting to delete the whole thing and start over again tomorrow. Hours later, like about an hour ago, I took a look at the menu.ini again. It's not like I would be able to spot any errors, but I had to look anyway. Then I saw it: menu_1024_768.ini (copy).

REALLY? Could it have possibly have crashed earlier because I hadn't renamed it and the game couldn't find it? I got rid of the (copy) part and reloaded the game. It loaded! I loaded the Navigation Tutorial. It loaded! All the gauges were there! The little gray box with the time and date was there! Everything worked! I loaded a practice Campaign. It worked! Everything works!

Tomorrow I'll take extra care while installing the Anschütz Compass. For now, I'm going to bed.

[Sailor Steve]

Well, I didn't make it to bed. It's now almost 0100, and I'm still fiddling. I like to have certain mods be permanent. I'll load and test them in JSGME, then disable and remove them and put them directly into the Data folder. So far I have the following permanently installed that way:

GWX 3.0
Hardcode Fixes - h.sie
GWX 3 Wil, St Naz and Schluese and other units v7 - BigBoyWooly
Remove GWX Compass - ichso
Simfeeling 6-Dials Mod - FLB-Sale_U-999
Sound My Way - From several sound mods: Das Boot Sound Mod SH3 - Sailor Steve, based on 'Projeckt Schwertfisch', by the SH2 modders, DBSM SH3 Speech Fix - Sailor Steve, Ultimate Aircraft Sounds - AOTD_MadMax, Spirit of Machines - Einbecker, & Torpedo Fire (German) v1.02 - Ktl_Kurtz
Das Boot Officers - AILantic
Small Moon - AILantic
No Rank on Crew - Dertien
Das Boot Clothes - Lafeeverted
Clean Nav Map - don't know

All tested out with both the Navigation course and in a campaign start, and working well together.

Tomorrow I'll be trying to install Leitender's Anschütz Kompass

[Nerazzurri]

What's clean nav map Steve?

[Doolar]

Hey Sailor Steve or anybody in the know . I was checking out your current mod soup and noticed a mod called "Remove GWX Compass - ichso". I've spent about an hour searching for this mod on the "download" section of SUBSIMS and couldn't find it . I probably missed it . Could direct me to this mod download , when you get an extra 5 minutes ... thanx

[sublynx]

Sounds promising!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Nerazzurri

What's clean nav map Steve?

It's a Nav Map with no nomograph. The map is completely clean except for a small compass in the lower right corner.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Doolar Semler

Hey Sailor Steve or anybody in the know . I was checking out your current mod soup and noticed a mod called "Remove GWX Compass - ichso". I've spent about an hour searching for this mod on the "download" section of SUBSIMS and couldn't find it . I probably missed it . Could direct me to this mod download , when you get an extra 5 minutes ... thanx

There is no download. It's a simple file change you do yourself. It can't be uploaded as a mod because many other mods also change the menu_1024_768.ini file, and to just install a new file would change any other settings that aren't identical to the one you already have.

It was originally posted by Ichso. I copied and pasted it to Notepad and keep it in my special folder 'Mods Setup', which contains all the instructions and the mods to make the game the way I like it.

This is the change as he posted it so many years ago:

first, make backups of [SH3 install]\data\Menu\menu_1024_768.ini
and one of [SH3 install]\data\Menu\cfg\Dials.cfg

second, edit the menu_1024_768.ini and find the string
[G3F I300] in there. You've got to delete the following eight
blocks (the ones 'g3f i300' to 'g3f i307').
(That's no problem because no blocks are following behind them in this section).

Then third, go to the ...\data\Menu\cfg\Dials.cfg to its very
end and delete the block there (which begins with [Dial 52]).
You should also go to the beginning of the dials.cfg and
decrease the DialsNo setting by one.

[Jeff-Groves]

Looks like I'm starting over myself Steve.
After getting SH3 running on Win 10 I tried new video drivers on Win 7.
Big mistake. BIG HUGE MISTAKE!!

Rolling back the drivers, re-installing, un-installing, cussing, slapping my 6 head, trying a restore point (which failed), and praying to the Software Gods and offering a sacrifice should things work again?
All has failed in the most miserable way.


Looks like it's time to move things to the externl and do a complete re-install of Win 7.
I've had this Notebook for a couple years and this will be the first complete re-install.
I knew it was coming but DANG!!

[Sailor Steve]

There are those among us who seem to enjoy the frustration of trying to make things work they way we think they should work much more than we enjoy the game itself.