GWX 2 puzzling things

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

Nothing serious, but something's happened which I don't understand.

Had a clean install; everything seemed to work well. Added the following via JSGME:
GWX - 16km Atmosphere
GWX - Captain America's Officer Icons
GWX - Enhanced Damage Effects
GWX - Integrated Orders
GWX - Late War Sensors Snorkel Antennas
GWX - No Medals on Crew

Started the game using SH3Commander, then ran the Academy and one career with no issues. Some things took me by surprise: the pullout compass on the far right, the 'no-tails' contact markers, for instance. Wasn't expecting those. :P

Finished my first patrol, exited then re-ran Commander and started my second patrol. However . . .

I now have tails again; the officer icons have changed; my weather reports are back to the stock ones (i.e. fog instead of visibility reports). Not sure what else might have changed.

I haven't done anything different between patrol one and patrol two, but things now have changed. Any ideas?

[KeptinCranky]

have you reinstalled sh3 commander after installing gwx 2.0 and have you added the new commander files?

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

have you reinstalled sh3 commander after installing gwx 2.0 and have you added the new commander files?

Affirmative. Guess I shoulda mentioned that, too. Eh? :oops:

First I clean-installed GWX 2. Then reinstalled SH3Commander and added the new commander files, then added the mods via JSGME before running anything.

[Paajtor]

Did you switch user-accounts in XP, between those 2 careers?

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

I changed nothing at all. All I did between patrols one and two was exit the game, roll back Commander then re-start commander for patrol two. I did nothing at all between the two. I do remember seeing some sort of error notice when SH3Weather started up and I clicked to continue (I hadn't transferred weather over from my original GXW install folder, but it seems to run anyway) but I don't recall the exact wording of the error message. But Weather also ran when I loaded and played the Academy missions and patrol one. It only gave an error message loading up the start of patrol two . . . which I've finished. And having just started patrol three I still have the same changes I'm asking about: I still have contact tails, the old weather report wordings, etc.

[KeptinCranky]

umm, sh3 weather hasn't been tested with GWX 2.0, I think that may be your problem though....don't have a fix off the top of my head, wait for one of the smart guys to see this :up:

[The Bad Wolf]

In GWX 1.3 it says not to install the

GWX - Late War Sensors Snorkel Antennas

until you have upgraded to a certain type.

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

I figgered it out and it's fixed. Danke all.

[The Bad Wolf]

It's best to install a new Sh3Commander and Sh3weather to the GWX 2.0 folder or you could get all sorts of problems. (I'm not using weather for GWX 2.0 but wouldn't think it would cause a problem.)

What I have done is to put all shortcuts into desktop folders GWX 1.3 & GWX 2.0, then use the sh.exe icons to change my folders appearance.

[Paajtor]

I figgered it out and it's fixed. Danke all.
Still would like to know how...just for the archive, ok? :yep:

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

I figgered it out and it's fixed. Danke all.
Still would like to know how...just for the archive, ok? :yep:

For reasons I don't understand (and keep in mind, by now, over the years, I've done multiple installs of SHIII for many different mods and MP versions, so I can't recall every exact step I did) but the SH3Location of the SH3Cmdr.ini file was set for the old GWX version. Which confuzzles me, as it started off for the first patrol running version 2.04 but, when I went to rerun Commander the second time, it was directing to start the old GWX version. ::shrugs::

To fix it I just manually edited the SH3Cmdr.ini file to correctly direct it.

[Paajtor]

gj:up: