SH2/AoP Rediscovered

[Kanfield]

The other day, I downloaded Wolves of the Pacific, sadly, before I found out I am too light on RAM to run it, and you can't swap out vid cards on laptops...sigh. Not to fear, soon I'll have a new PC to run SH5 on, and all will be well. I was tired of playing SH3, andthen, I remembered something.
I dug out my old SH2 disc, and fired up my really old E-Machine that had Aces of the Pacific on it. Everything went in and fired up perfectly on a Vista machine, followed the instructions with Pac Aces, and set it for compatability with Win95, and it fired up and ran first try. I don't know if its important, but it seems you can run alot of old stuff on Vista, IF you don't put it in 'Program Files, but just into 'C', instead!.
Good God, I had forgotten how good the sound is on Pac Aces, and, those Jap DD"s are pretty killer, at least for the first pass. Tons of fun! The stereo separation in SH2 is fantastic, you can really tell where the DD's are in relation to your Sub, it seems that it is more mono in SH3. Great fun, and very very playable after all these years
Thank you, guys who did Pac Aces, if your still out there sailing, good hunting to you!

[kiwi_2005]

Yep I remember Pacific Aces mod well as it made me play SH2 for another year or more. The US boats were well done even today they are good for an old game & the sound voices i have seen some of those same sounds in mods for SH3/4. Great mod.

[DES_SNIPER]

Same thing happened to me with the ram. The PC I had when SH$ came out was running at "1gig" of ddr1 ram. The PC acted like it had 512kb ddr1 ram. An additional 1gig did little to help out.
The solution to this mess laid deep with in my pockets, I ended up getting a new PC on clearance, wasnt the best but it was a step above, the best part was the upgrade to DDR2, faster and cheaper than DDR1...victory was mine!!!:D

[DES_SNIPER]

Oh yea, I am sure you know...Vista is a ram killer. hate the damn thing. Just waiting on windows7 to arrive...waiting....waiting....waiting...

[Radio]

You could also try to play the first part of Silent Hunter in the Dosbox emulator, it is still a remarkably good game.

[Sailor Steve]

Thank you, guys who did Pac Aces, if your still out there sailing, good hunting to you!
Take a look at Hitman's avatar sometime.

[Hitman]

Thank you, guys who did Pac Aces, if your still out there sailing, good hunting to you! Glad you are still having fun with it :up: it's a 2004 mod, now 5 yeards old :o but the expertise in sounds editing from DJ Funk payss off still!

Most of us are still lurking around here, you can identify us by the custom avatar :yep: