GWX (Grey Wolves eXpansion Mod)

[torpedobait]

Originally Posted by Anvar1061

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I have been told by others on the forum that there is a conflict between the 4Gb patch and Large Address Aware. Apparently if you have a 64 bit system you do not, and should not use the 4Gb patch. The latest mod releases from the FOTARS mod team include Large Address Aware and not the 4Gb patch.

You may want to consider changing from the 4Gb patch to run LAA instead. It will allow you to find and select any executable (SH3.exe and SH4.exe for example). Pretty simple to use. Your call.

[gutted]

Originally Posted by torpedobait

I have been told by others on the forum that there is a conflict between the 4Gb patch and Large Address Aware. Apparently if you have a 64 bit system you do not, and should not use the 4Gb patch.

I dunno who told you differently, but the two programs do exactly the same thing. It doesn't matter which one you use.

The ONLY difference is 4GB patch only lets you turn it on. LAA lets you turn it back off, plus some other useless stuff. If you were to turn it off in LAA, then use 4gb patch.. then re-run LAA you would see its back on. It's just a simple edit of a flag inside the .exe file's header, and there's only one way to do it.

[torpedobait]

Originally Posted by gutted

I dunno who told you differently, but the two programs do exactly the same thing. It doesn't matter which one you use.

The ONLY difference is 4GB patch only lets you turn it on. LAA lets you turn it back off, plus some other useless stuff. If you were to turn it off in LAA, then use 4gb patch.. then re-run LAA you would see its back on. It's just a simple edit of a flag inside the .exe file's header, and there's only one way to do it.

It came from someone on the FOTARS Ultimate team, maybe Propbeanie or CapnScurvy, but it doesn't matter. LAA works for me so I'll continue to use it. Thanks for the input.

[SiggeMan]

Would this mod work with the steam version of SH3? Im thinking of buying it via steam, although, i wont unless this mod works for that version.

[aiknx999]

Hey guys. I've been playing around with latest version of GWX for a while and I noticed some annoying inconsistencies with convoy battles. First of all, not unlike lone ships, they don't even move in a predictable fashion. If you receive a contact update from BdU with position and heading of a lone ship, it's still quite easy to intercept it even from a long distance. Completely different story with convoys - BdU gave me a completely wrong direction of it. When I did find it with some trial and error, I noticed that it did a random course change every few hours or so, that made it extremely difficult to get close for shooting.
Another thing - detection by destroyers and merchant ships. My battle happened at a relatively light autumn night of 1939, so no radars for anyone. At one point I got as close as 200 m to a merchant column without getting spotted, I saved there and after reloading all the merchants around were pointing their spotlights at me. After loading another save and experimenting a bit, I found that the safe distance was around 700 m for merchants and 1500 m for destroyers. So what's the problem? Turns out another destroyer moving at the front of the convoy can easily spot me from around 3500-4000 m for no reason.
Anyway, I find this AI behavior to be really annoying. This whole battle was an inconsistent mess with random convoy movement and detection distances. Am I doing something wrong perhaps?? Also, do other mega-mods (NYGM, LSH3) fix this behavior? Thanks in advance

[Jimbuna]

Don't make game saves within at least 25km of other game units and be advised the skill levels of the escorts can vary from green to expert, tending to rise as the war progresses.

[Aktungbby]

aiknx999! The numbers of your on-line name are upside down!...imho

[THEBERBSTER]

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[aiknx999]

Thanks for the welcome guys Again, this AI behaviour just seems to be so odd. Encountering an expert-crew destroyer in 1939 that can spot me with no radar in the middle of the night from a massive distance is just too unlikely IMO. I've downloaded LSH3 actually, hopefully it will do better once I get it to run properly

[Doiran_1917]

Hello to everyone.
Been quite a loyal fan to the SH series tho never participated openly in communities.
I ve decided to come back to Silent Hunter 3 after a very long break. Subbed to the Subsim site, which is still an awesome place and got the GWX mod. Got it working, but after making the hi res. fix it keeps crashing upon mission load.
Would appreciate if somebody has any idea how to work around the problem

Btw made a full run of stock SH3 campaign before-hand, you know like a back-to basics campaign. Made a pretty good run on 80% realism. And made the decision to up the level of the game.

[Aktungbby]

Doiran_1917!

[Jimbuna]

Welcome to SubSim Doiran

[Doiran_1917]

Thank you very much Gentlemen

Got it working ...sort of managed to get nearly 190k GRT sunk so far, but those crashes with the save game file are killing me literally
I ll try and find some workaround but its a big killjoy lel

[Benzin1973]

I have allways enjoyed GWX, but the thing that allways bothered me is that (for me at least) its somehow unstable, with CTDs happening every now and then.

Recently this problem has gotten a lot worse, to the point where i can almost no longer play it.

Im currently in mid 1941, near the Gibraltar strait, and i receive a radio report of a convoy. I set course to intercept it, and the minute i get close to it, the game CTDs.

I dont have many mods, mainly Manos enviroment, HSIE patch, and MaGUI. Still i disable them one by one and try again, no luck. The game crashes predictably at the exact moment i approach the convoy.

So i delete everything, clean install of the game & GWX.
Load the save game and BAM! as soon as i approach that convoy, CTD.

Ok, maybe the save game is corrupted or something? i scrap that patrol, loaded the latest "In game after mission" save and start a new patrol.
Arround the same area as before (CG87) another report, convoy, but its not the same convoy as before, this one is going on a different direction.
Intercept course!
Can you guess what happened when i got near to it?
And same deal as before, no ammount of removing mods can fix it.
Its so consistent i can tell the EXACT time the game will CTD (00:03).

Its as if some convoy configurations are incorrect and cause the game to crash when the game spawns them in sight?

Remembering back, it seems that most my CTDs with GWX occur when convoys are nearby.

So my system is at fault maybe? video drivers, bad ram etc.?
Seems unlikely to me, since i also run another installation of SH3 in paralel, that one with NYGM-2017A, HSIE patches, MaGUI, MEPv6, and i have never had one single CTD. Not one. The game is flawless.

Its so frustrating, i really like GWX, but this constant crashing makes it just impossible for me to enjoy it.

Could it be an error in a convoy definition? maybe game is trying to load a ship that doesnt have textures for it or something?
It seems obvious to me that the problem happens when certain convoys are arround.
Any ideas of what i could do to fix this problem???

thanks

[hauangua]

Originally Posted by Benzin1973

I have allways enjoyed GWX, but the thing that allways bothered me is that (for me at least) its somehow unstable, with CTDs happening every now and then.

Recently this problem has gotten a lot worse, to the point where i can almost no longer play it.

Im currently in mid 1941, near the Gibraltar strait, and i receive a radio report of a convoy. I set course to intercept it, and the minute i get close to it, the game CTDs.

I dont have many mods, mainly Manos enviroment, HSIE patch, and MaGUI. Still i disable them one by one and try again, no luck. The game crashes predictably at the exact moment i approach the convoy.

So i delete everything, clean install of the game & GWX.
Load the save game and BAM! as soon as i approach that convoy, CTD.

Ok, maybe the save game is corrupted or something? i scrap that patrol, loaded the latest "In game after mission" save and start a new patrol.
Arround the same area as before (CG87) another report, convoy, but its not the same convoy as before, this one is going on a different direction.
Intercept course!
Can you guess what happened when i got near to it?
And same deal as before, no ammount of removing mods can fix it.
Its so consistent i can tell the EXACT time the game will CTD (00:03).

Its as if some convoy configurations are incorrect and cause the game to crash when the game spawns them in sight?

Remembering back, it seems that most my CTDs with GWX occur when convoys are nearby.

So my system is at fault maybe? video drivers, bad ram etc.?
Seems unlikely to me, since i also run another installation of SH3 in paralel, that one with NYGM-2017A, HSIE patches, MaGUI, MEPv6, and i have never had one single CTD. Not one. The game is flawless.

Its so frustrating, i really like GWX, but this constant crashing makes it just impossible for me to enjoy it.

Could it be an error in a convoy definition? maybe game is trying to load a ship that doesnt have textures for it or something?
It seems obvious to me that the problem happens when certain convoys are arround.
Any ideas of what i could do to fix this problem???

thanks

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