SH4 uboat bugs thread. (Read past the first post before posting replies)

[capthelm]

frame rates are a disaster in this addon. total mess now compared to 1.4

bug with sonar room on uboats i get a blank screen.no instruments?

..thank god this was only $10 to buy., over all its a half assed addon imo.
no detailed thought on this 1., may have to uninstall this. till they fix it.

[Private-Cowboy]

What about the framerate? I could run vanilla SH4 pretty ok on my laptop but "only" pretty ok. How much has it gone down??? I never tested 1.4 I must add, did that increase the framerate???

[capthelm]

will do some more testing ,

not looking good last test i did, i have ordered a wolfdale E8400 cpu anyway.

se how it stacks against the fastest cpu out there shortly.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by capthelm

will do some more testing ,

not looking good last test i did, i have ordered a wolfdale E8400 cpu anyway.

se how it stacks against the fastest cpu out there shortly.

Ah, what kind of frame rates are you looking for? Are you spending more time and money worried about frame rates getting to 100+ or is you machine cranking 5 FPS all the time. My weak 3200+, 2 gig DDR and 7800 GS gets me 30+ frames. Pretty respectable for 4 year old machine that is run by chipmunks.

[capthelm]

posting up what i find..,i dont bull... on framerate findings.
1.4 was smooth for us..as i say again will test more..

i like my games to be silky smooth for play.

[Raptor1]

It could be a hardware-specific problem, my humble Pentium D 3.0GHz/Radeon X1600 512mb/1G DDR runs it fine, with only occasional slowdowns at bad weather

[Raptor1]

I don't see any difference in performance, except that the loading times (which are better compared to 1.4, which was better compared to earlier versions)

[Meridian]

Originally Posted by capthelm

bug with sonar room on uboats i get a blank screen.no instruments?

If you don't have realistic Sensors ticked on the options you get a black screen at the hydrophone station.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by capthelm

frame rates are a disaster in this addon. total mess now compared to 1.4

bug with sonar room on uboats i get a blank screen.no instruments?

..thank god this was only $10 to buy., over all its a half assed addon imo.
no detailed thought on this 1., may have to uninstall this. till they fix it.

Maybe take alook at your PC, For $10 thats a good buy i brought it for $29.95 and im happy with that.

Frame rates a disaster? Smooth gameplay here.
No blank screen bug? You have some option turned off

Crew under water. Dont get that either well i haven't loaded a save game - I think thats why it bugs out.

[catar M]

No problem here runs great but I have reasonable machine too.I don't have any graphics bugs.

[kriller2]

Originally Posted by capthelm

frame rates are a disaster in this addon. total mess now compared to 1.4

bug with sonar room on uboats i get a blank screen.no instruments?

..thank god this was only $10 to buy., over all its a half assed addon imo.
no detailed thought on this 1., may have to uninstall this. till they fix it.

Are you running ROW or PE 1.1alpha? - it sounds like it, beacuse I never had that bug with the sonarguy on the stock SH 1.5. I wrote in the faq for ROW that there is a small problem with the camera, which need an update, don't blame the game-developers for bugs with ROW and the addon!

[LukeFF]

When I tried to do a turn in the Type IX in reverse, the rudder kept coming back to amidships (instead of completing the turn first), so that I never was able to really turn at all.

In the Type IX control room, near the ladder to the conning tower, there's a section of piping that pulsates back and forth.

[jazman]

Originally Posted by capthelm

frame rates are a disaster in this addon. total mess now compared to 1.4

My machine is borderline for 1.4: ASUS A7N8X, Athlon XP 3000+, 7600GT, SB Live! card (ie not using on-board sound). I get in the mid-20s with 1.4 / Trigger Maru / RSRDC. No ROW, because ROW puts the framerates around 15, which is unusable. Mid-20s is usable, I know that comes as a shock to you guys who have frame rates in the 100s.

1.5 puts framerate at 14. This is on the bridge, nice weather, calm seas. It's unusable. I bet it's because of the ROW stuff added.

[JT1981]

Hi,guys,i think this is a bug.The magnification of attack periscope should be 6*,but in the game it shows 4*,and when you switch to the exterior view,you will find the in the left on the attack periscope,there says 1.5* and 6*.

does anyone has this problem??

[CCIP]

A few picky technical things -

The KDB hydrophone rotates on its side through the forward torpedo hatch
That's not how it should be!

The IXD2 shouldn't have one screw inactive when recharging. Unlike all other U-boats, it had a 2nd set of diesels which it could use to recharge batteries independent of propulsion.


The IXD2 seems seriously out of trim when underwater. The bow planes are always down and the stern planes are up (meaning it's bow-light), and the boat bobs up and down while traveling at depth. It should probably be trimmed a bit more neutrally.