Black sky (GWX)

[3Jane]

I installed GWX on a fresh install of SHIII patched to 1.4b, on a newly formatted HDD. I installed the latest version of SHIII Commander after I had installed GWX.
I am running it through an ATI 9800 pro on an Asrock K7VT4A pro Mb, Sempron 3000+ CPU, with 1.5 Gb memory on a SATA 1.5 HDD.
Everything else, apart from the sky looks great and runs much more smoothly than it did with SHIII+GW. Unfortunately the sky, despite it being mid afternoon is completely black. Have I somehow botched the installation or is there something I need to alter or install to make the sky render as it should.

[VIICDriver]

I had this happen with the "old" GW 1.1a. I changed from 8km to 16km (or vice versa) and it fixed it.

Chuck

[VIICDriver]

BTW what vid card are you running? Just curious.

Chuck

[3Jane]

BTW what vid card are you running? Just curious.

Chuck

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with Omega drivers.

[VIICDriver]

I use an X850XT and remember now that I was running the Omega's when I had the problem as well.

May want to try the stock drivers again and/or change the atmosphere.

Chuck

[3Jane]

I had this happen with the "old" GW 1.1a. I changed from 8km to 16km (or vice versa) and it fixed it.

Chuck

Thanks, I hadn't installed the 16K mod properly. Now I have nice blue skys and dark at night as they should be :D

[poncho]

I am also getting the black sky .

Can someone explain in detail what they did to fix it .

What do you mean loaded the 16km incorrectly .

Thanks

[Kpt. Lehmann]

GWX comes with both the JGSME Mod Enabler by JScones and an optional 16 km atmosphere mod.

Use JGSME to enable the included 16km mod. Easy as pie.

[AVGWarhawk]

GWX comes with both the JGSME Mod Enabler by JScones and an optional 16 km atmosphere mod.

Use JGSME to enable the included 16km mod. Easy as pie.

I do not have it installed and night time is just fine on my machine. what exactly does the 16km mod do anyway?

[poncho]

I did and do have the 16k mod enabled through JSGME and still get the black sky .

Thanks for your reply .

[Pants]

Sounds like a buggered scene.dat issue :hmm:

[Kpt. Lehmann]

GWX comes with both the JGSME Mod Enabler by JScones and an optional 16 km atmosphere mod.

Use JGSME to enable the included 16km mod. Easy as pie.

I do not have it installed and night time is just fine on my machine. what exactly does the 16km mod do anyway?

It DOUBLES the visible distance of objects in-game... and pretty much doubles the load on your CPU as well. Not recommended for low to middle-end PC's.

[AVGWarhawk]

GWX comes with both the JGSME Mod Enabler by JScones and an optional 16 km atmosphere mod.

Use JGSME to enable the included 16km mod. Easy as pie.
I do not have it installed and night time is just fine on my machine. what exactly does the 16km mod do anyway?
It DOUBLES the visible distance of objects in-game... and pretty much doubles the load on your CPU as well. Not recommended for low to middle-end PC's.

That is how I understand it from the manual. :up: All is good with the original install so I do not need this!

[Kpt. Lehmann]

GWX comes with both the JGSME Mod Enabler by JScones and an optional 16 km atmosphere mod.

Use JGSME to enable the included 16km mod. Easy as pie.
I do not have it installed and night time is just fine on my machine. what exactly does the 16km mod do anyway?
It DOUBLES the visible distance of objects in-game... and pretty much doubles the load on your CPU as well. Not recommended for low to middle-end PC's.

That is how I understand it from the manual. :up: All is good with the original install so I do not need this!

True... which is why we've made it an optional mod for GWX. :D

[Kpt. Lehmann]

I did and do have the 16k mod enabled through JSGME and still get the black sky .

Thanks for your reply .

Try disabling it and then re-enabling it. If that doesn't work... re-run the GWX .exe to restore it to default 8km.

Did you install any other mods?

[poncho]

Thank you again.

I installed the following mods :

English map refs
integrated orders
16km atmosphere

das boot movie
no medals on crew

I will try your latest suggestion .

[bigboywooly]

Thank you again.

I installed the following mods :

English map refs
integrated orders
16km atmosphere

das boot movie
no medals on crew

I will try your latest suggestion .

Did you rollback SH3coomander before applying those mods ?
Or install them straight away

[poncho]

I tried the GWX .exe file and received a message "verificationof E Silent Hunter III by the Grey Wolves expansion failed :

Test 1 Passed
Test 2 Passed
Test 3 Passed
Test 4 Passed
Test 5 Failed

Is 5 corrupted?

[bigboywooly]

I would say yes if it failed
Delete that one and D\L again
Corruption can and does occur through downloading which is why this handy tool was included

The verification error message is due to the SilentHunterIII folder NOT being a clean install patched to 1.4b

[poncho]

I did use a clean install patched to 1.4b

[danlisa]

Ok guy's try this.....
http://files.filefront.com/GWX___16km_Atmosphererar/;6374760;;/fileinfo.html

A couple of testers had the same problem and we fixed it with my copy of GWX's 16km ATM.

Usual story, rollback SH3Cmdr, disable the original 16km ATM, extract and copy this one into JSGME's mod folder & enable.

[hocking]

Be sure to hit the "Roll-Back" button if you are using SHCommander, even if you haven't even made any option selections in SHCommander. Just hit the button, and then try your install if this is the case.

[poncho]

I used the file the tester suggested and it cured my problem with black skies .

Thank you sir .

No corrupt files when I tested it with MD5 .

[danlisa]

A bump for people not aware of the search button;) j/k

Maybe a MOD could merge these two threads.

[Jan Kyster]

:damn: hadn't seen this! :rotfl: but just found out that the original 16km atmosphere mod is the reason for my black nights! Without it installed, it's now perfect! Glad to see it confirmed! :up:

Not sure anymore, why I would want a 16km atmosphere? :hmm:

[JScones]

I tried the GWX .exe file and received a message "verificationof E Silent Hunter III by the Grey Wolves expansion failed :

Test 1 Passed
Test 2 Passed
Test 3 Passed
Test 4 Passed
Test 5 Failed

Is 5 corrupted?
I would say yes if it failed
Delete that one and D\L again
Corruption can and does occur through downloading which is why this handy tool was included

The verification error message is due to the SilentHunterIII folder NOT being a clean install patched to 1.4b
The above log is not from the MD5Compare - it's from the installer. It is saying that the selected installation of SH3 is already modded, hence is invalid.

The above log does NOT imply corruption of any d/l file. To determine that one needs to run MD5Compare and load the GWX.md5 file.

The installer does five tests whenever a path is selected. The fact that there are five tests should not be confused with the fact that there are also five bin files. Mere coincidence.

[Jan Kyster]

Ok guy's try this.....
http://files.filefront.com/GWX___16km_Atmosphererar/;6374760;;/fileinfo.html

A couple of testers had the same problem and we fixed it with my copy of GWX's 16km ATM...Sorry for the trouble, but link gives me a "page not found"... :oops:

[danlisa]

Ok guy's try this.....
http://files.filefront.com/GWX___16km_Atmosphererar/;6374760;;/fileinfo.html

A couple of testers had the same problem and we fixed it with my copy of GWX's 16km ATM...Sorry for the trouble, but link gives me a "page not found"... :oops:

Yeah, Filefront is 'down' at the moment. I guess GWX cooked it.:rotfl:

Give me a minute and I'll get a mirror up.

[Jan Kyster]

Darn, you are quick! :rotfl:

Thanks a lot! :up:

[danlisa]

Try this one....
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HE3OUBNK

[Jan Kyster]

Well... I've tried the new 16km, still pitch black here. And it's not a matter of monitor adjustment btw. Tried to make a splitscreen shot, but even then it's hard to tell the difference, but if you have both screenshots in Windows Picture Viewer and swap between them, it's very easy to see the difference! Here's a zipped folder containing two shots http://www.sfgpl.dk/pics/sh3/div/swap.zip

Just a footnote, but GWX 8km and TGW 16km ligth appears on my monitor exactly the same, ligthwise.

[Tuddley3]

Don't know if it will work, but look at No.3 on this link :

http://www.realhp.de/members/hansolo78/Help.html

[danlisa]

@ Jan Kyster

I think we've got a missunderstanding. I assumed you were having night during the day:oops:. If this is not the case then I'm affraid that the files that you currently have for the 8 & 16km ATM are the light versions. It was decided to only release with these versions as no-one ever used the dark ones.

The only solution to your really dark nights, at the moment, is to adjust either your GFX card settings or your monitors. I'm sure before too long that someone will come up with a lighter version.

[Jan Kyster]

:damn: after seing Tuddley's post, I realised I posted in the wrong thread! Misread the Title - the're sooo many GWX-threads... Sorry, but my fault. :oops:

Anyway, the 8km standard GWX-night is still just perfect and saved my, erhm, night :rock: