[REL] Conus' SH3GWX Widescreen Mod

[Seeadler]

Originally Posted by nemo7

Ahoy mate. I'd love to use this great mod but I'm getting the error message "can not initialize 3D engine".

if you use a NVIDIA card, see here
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...7&postcount=10

[KING111]

thanks m8 great work its working ok on my 28 inch
with a nvidia card at 1600x1200
i would like to get it up to 1920x1200
but if i try and run the game at that
it crashes saying the game 3D engine well not run?
the crash is nothing to do with your mod
it all ways does it even if i have no mods on

[Plunger]

Great mod, conus! Thank you for this mod and to everyone involved, because I know that there are some other people here that made this mod possible. But I've encountered some serious problems:

First of all, it seems that some key commands are reversed. For example, in stock game and also in GWX, the {[ key of the keyboard means hard to portside, }] means hard to starboard, _- means view to heading and += means heading to view. In your mod, {[ is view to heading, }] is heading to view, _- doesn't work anymore at all and += is hard to starboard. And there may be more glitches like this one, but I haven't encountered them until now, and I hope that I won't.

Secondly, after I enable this mod, I play, I exit from the game and then I disable it, the sh3 editor doesn't work anymore, it shows me a black image, the program is starting, but when I try to load a map or a mission, the image is a big black. And also, the "stock" GWX loading screens are disappearing, it's just black. The game itself works, but this mod somehow affects my game in an irreversible way, although theoretically I think that shouldn't happen with Generic Mod Enabler. But it seems that it does. So, every time after I enable and disable your mod I have to reinstall the game to be OK, like it was before.
Update: I've found the problem and also the solution: after I disable this mod, there is one "trace" left: d3d9.dll file in the main game folder (although I think that file along with d3d9.ini should remain only in MODS/Conus' SH3GWXWS 2.3 folder after disabling the mod), if I delete that file both sh3 editor and loading screens are working again!

And the third, about the resolution problem: I am using I am using Windows 7 64 OS, Sapphire ATI Radeon 5770 1024GB GPU, 22 inch Acer P223W monitor, VGA connectivity with a VGA to DVI adapter, on a native resolution of 1680X1050, with no option of scaling in ATI Catalyst Control Center (10.3), because I've encountered a problem on ATI Catalyst 10.4. For example, on 10.4, on the resolution 1360 * 768 the game has distorted circles, like a standing egg (not like the "usual ones" in this game, the horizontal sleeping eggs, but when I try to play the game in 10.3, the image is not distorted anymore. So , here's what I do: First, I change my monitor resolution to 1360 * 768, and only after that I am starting the game, if I start the game with my monitor having 1680X1050, the game is stretched from lateral sides when it's changing to the 1360 * 768 in the game. Anyway, this is a compromise solution, but it works, this is the most important thing. Fortunately, I don't have any problems when loading Museum ...


Am I the only one that encountered these problems?

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Plunger

And the third, about the resolution problem: I am using I am using Windows 7 64 OS, Sapphire ATI Radeon 5770 1024GB GPU, 22 inch Acer P223W monitor, VGA connectivity with a VGA to DVI adapter, on a native resolution of 1680X1050, with no option of scaling in ATI Catalyst Control Center (10.3), because I've encountered a problem on ATI Catalyst 10.4. For example, on 10.4, on the resolution 1360 * 768 the game has distorted circles, like a standing egg (not like the "usual ones" in this game, the horizontal sleeping eggs, but when I try to play the game in 10.3, the image is not distorted anymore.


Am I the only one that encountered these problems?

You're not alone here, I have the same problem, the game itself is squashed horizontally so circles look like eggs, the opposite to the old WS mod, I have an ATI HD4850 with Digital/HDMI connection to a Samsung 2433BW LCD monitor, not sure if it is an ATI problem or digital/analog (VGA/HDMI) problem. If I take a snapshot that shows perfect circles, so it has to be a scaling problem, how to fix this I don't know.

[Plunger]

Originally Posted by Reece

You're not alone here, I have the same problem, the game itself is squashed horizontally so circles look like eggs, the opposite to the old WS mod, I have an ATI HD4850 with Digital/HDMI connection to a Samsung 2433BW LCD monitor, not sure if it is an ATI problem or digital/analog (VGA/HDMI) problem. If I take a snapshot that shows perfect circles, so it has to be a scaling problem, how to fix this I don't know.

Yes, if I take a screenshot it's like you say! But try installing 10.3 ATI Catalyst ( I am not sure if all those "updated" drivers like 10.4 or 10.5 bring a real improvement anyway ...) and before starting the game, change your monitor resolution to 1360*768 (1360*768 on your monitor, not in the .ini file, you'll just have to leave that file untouched, it already has 1360*768 settings, but you should match the monitor resolution to the one in .ini file) and after that start the game with that mod enabled! It works for me this way, I don't have any of the two kind of eggs anymore when I do that. It's very unscientifically, but it works!

If you want to make a correct uninstallation/installation of ATI Catalyst, first you should install a free software, called Driver sweeper http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/ then uninstall the current Catalyst that you are using, reboot in safe mode (F8), use Driver Sweeper to clean all ATI traces, reboot again and install the desired ATI Catalyst driver version.

About the key commands, are they OK in your installation?

[Reece]

Thing is I don't use CCC, I use ATI Tray Tools, the ATI driver though is pretty old (8.5), could change this but fail to see that this would help, also changing the windows and monitor resolution just to play the game is not for me, I'd rather just use the old WS mod! Pity there isn't a third party scaling application, I've looked but can't find anything.

[conus00]

@Plunger and Reece.
Gentlemen, I am sorry that it is not working for you and I believe that your problems are somehow tied to ATI cards. Myself, I run the game on NVidia GT9600 XXX and have zero issues (aside from not being able to enter Museum). I wish I could help you but I had absolutely nothing to do with the development of the dll file. I just used it with Seeadler's permission and built graphic interface around it.
Him or Rubini might be able to answer your hardware related questions.

@Plunger I did make some changes to the commands file (it is actually combination of two different files) and some commands might have gotten changed. I can't look into it right now because my computer is packed in the box loaded on United VanLines semi and won't be delivered to Florida until mid-June. You can take a look at the commands file and make the changes yourself (it is simple txt file to edit).

[nemo7]

Originally Posted by Seeadler

if you use a NVIDIA card, see here
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...7&postcount=10

I'm on my laptop matey; Mobile Intel 4500MHD.

[nemo7]

Found it. Just correct the res values in the d3d9.ini file from 1360x768 to 1366x768.
Great job matey!