El-Fish
11-24-07, 09:14 PM
Hello
First off many many thanks to those that have continued to mod SHIII. Much appreciated on this end!
The last time I used GWX (and played shiii) was v1.01. All the talk about the new version coming out made me install the lattest version and give it another try.
I installed SHIII and updated it to 1.4b. I then install GWX 1.0 and ran through the 1st training mission with no problems. I then updated it to v1.1 and again found it to be working fine. I then downloaded gwx103.exe and made the sure the md5 matched what was listed.
After the installation of v1.03 the game refused to start. When I start the game I do get the correct 1.03 loading screen but about 1 second after the red bar fills in I get a CTD. I do however see a quick flash of something like it begins to play a movie or animation but it happens so fast that I can't really tell. So my question is this: Was a movie or animation added to gwx between v1.01 and 1.3? I'm wondering if that's where the problem is. If something new is there maybe I could delete/bypass it to get the game to start.
While trying to figuire out what was wrong I've gone through bunches and bunches of reinstalls and I notice something about the two updates I have for gwx: There are mods present in the 1.01 update that aren't in the 1.03 despite the fact that 1.03 should include all the previous updates.
For instance looking in the 1.01 update I see a folder named "GW Documentation & Optional Mods" that isn't present in the v1.03 update. It would seem to me that if you only update using the 1.03 update you wouldn't ever see these mods..........
This is one of the reasons why I don't play games like SH as often as I do others even though I absolutely love the game there is just way too much 'tinkering' involved in geting things to work half way decent. As the years have gone buy free time is less and less and given the choice of acutally playing a game and 'tinkering' with one to 'try' and play one......Right now is a perfect example I've spent a few hours trying to get this to work and now I'm tired/sleepy and really didn't get much done besides pulling some of my hair..... I'm sure this has also cost the games some sales.
BTW, I'm currently running GWX v1.01 since it runs fine.
First off many many thanks to those that have continued to mod SHIII. Much appreciated on this end!
The last time I used GWX (and played shiii) was v1.01. All the talk about the new version coming out made me install the lattest version and give it another try.
I installed SHIII and updated it to 1.4b. I then install GWX 1.0 and ran through the 1st training mission with no problems. I then updated it to v1.1 and again found it to be working fine. I then downloaded gwx103.exe and made the sure the md5 matched what was listed.
After the installation of v1.03 the game refused to start. When I start the game I do get the correct 1.03 loading screen but about 1 second after the red bar fills in I get a CTD. I do however see a quick flash of something like it begins to play a movie or animation but it happens so fast that I can't really tell. So my question is this: Was a movie or animation added to gwx between v1.01 and 1.3? I'm wondering if that's where the problem is. If something new is there maybe I could delete/bypass it to get the game to start.
While trying to figuire out what was wrong I've gone through bunches and bunches of reinstalls and I notice something about the two updates I have for gwx: There are mods present in the 1.01 update that aren't in the 1.03 despite the fact that 1.03 should include all the previous updates.
For instance looking in the 1.01 update I see a folder named "GW Documentation & Optional Mods" that isn't present in the v1.03 update. It would seem to me that if you only update using the 1.03 update you wouldn't ever see these mods..........
This is one of the reasons why I don't play games like SH as often as I do others even though I absolutely love the game there is just way too much 'tinkering' involved in geting things to work half way decent. As the years have gone buy free time is less and less and given the choice of acutally playing a game and 'tinkering' with one to 'try' and play one......Right now is a perfect example I've spent a few hours trying to get this to work and now I'm tired/sleepy and really didn't get much done besides pulling some of my hair..... I'm sure this has also cost the games some sales.
BTW, I'm currently running GWX v1.01 since it runs fine.