Pros/cons with the different major Mods

[kanolsen]

I have the out of the box version of SHIII (with some minor mods, as well as SH commander).

Now I want to try to "upgrade" to a large mod.
But as I understand there are 3 versjons:
Grey wolf
??? (can'r remember)
vanilla.

Is there some info about the pros and cons of them? I have understood it is possible to install several and modify files to separate them but that is a little more than I would like to do.
I have a 2.8Ghz p4 with 1gb ram and 128mb visual card (altough a cheap one).

Any advice which one I should go for?
I am running at 28%realism so far.

Kanolsen

[Dowly]

These are the three major mods:
NYGM - Mostly changes to gameplay
TGW - Changes to gameplay, graphics and sounds
Uboat war ace campaign (spelling) - Cant really tell you, havent tried this one.

But you will get this answer from alot of people: Try out all of them and decide which one you like the best.

[melnibonian]

Hello

the two major mods are GW and NYGM. Both of them are great and highly recomended. Try them and see which one is the best for you. I am using GW with SH3 Commander and I think it's great (until the arrival of GWX that is:D ) but that's just my opinion.

[Respenus]

It's quite easy to use SH3Multi. You just click on the .exe and set a new name for the save folder. Making multi SH3Commander installations a only 0,000001% harder and is worth the efford. BIG TIME!

Wait for GWX to come out in about a month, in the mean time, you can try the previously mentioned mods.

[Deimos01]

Ive played GW and NYGM and cant really reccomend one over the other. They are both great in their own ways. Try em both. You wont be disappointed. :up:

[AVGWarhawk]

GW fan here. If GWX is anywhere close to GW, we are in for a good treat. I did'nt think that GW could get any better but the boys are proving me wrong:rock: God Bless'em!!!!!

[Herr Russ]

Running patched vanilla on a 2.8GHZ, 1G ram & 256 Video card..

When I first started playing SH III, I loaded the GW mod.. Unbeliveable difference in graphics and immersion..

But (Had to be one), when there was a lot of graphics to deal with (Harbor, convoy, weather, etc), my frame rate (Ctrl & F8) would drop to 3 or 1.. Totally unusable unless you don't mind a 5 second lag between mouse movements.. I reduced particle size & unchecked some other things like sea floor texture, but it was still sloooow.. I ended up wiping the game off & reinstalling a patched vanilla version..

What I should have done was to upgrade my video driver first.. Just yesterday I DL'd an omega driver (Thanks gizzmoe for that suggestion) and regularly have frame rates of 150+... Slows down in harbor to around 40, but still usuable..

Now thinking about reloading GW again :arrgh!: