Steam and Mods

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Fellow Captains,

I have seen that there is this excellent mod called GWX. I would like to try it, but my SH3 is downloaded from Steam. Could someone explain to me the way of adding mods to a Steam-downoladed game?
It's already patched to version 1.4 by the way.

Many thanks in advance :)

[Herr-Berbunch]

Firstly get JScones' JSGME, the handiest program available!

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=171235

Then install GWX.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=102096&highlight=installing+gwx3

Have fun, and if you have problems you know where we are :D

[papa_smurf]

Its really simple, just install GWX to where your game is located, in my case its: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\silent hunter 3.

You'll get JSGME with GWX, so it will be installed with GWX. As for adding mods just unzip them to the MODS folder.

Happy hunting:salute:

[Sailor Steve]

Yes indeed, JSGME comes with GWX, so you don't have to install it separately. You do, however, want to use the 'Update' function that comes with JSGME to get the latest version. :sunny:

[Jimbuna]

That's the only downside I can think of regarding GWX.....the latest JSGME is not included.

[Sailor Steve]

Well, get to work and combine it with all the latest cool mods.

GWX3.1.2.7.4.9.5.2, and waiting for GWblahblahblah.3.
:rotfl2:

[Jimbuna]

Well, get to work and combine it with all the latest cool mods.

GWX3.1.2.7.4.9.5.2, and waiting for GWblahblahblah.3.
:rotfl2:

Sorted :DL

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Colleghi Comandanti,


I have managed to play four missions with "vanilla" (sacrificing a total of 1 hour of study altogether, so perhaps the other user was quite right in his warning:D), using a Type II-D. For the time being I have managed to sink a Frachter and a C2 Cargo. Very meager score, but hey I'm still learning. For now I am not using manual targeting, I'll put that later on.

In the very first mission I simply forgot to perform shift and guard rotation among my crew members, as a result they were extremely tired during the whole trip back. Luckily I met no enemy ship or plane. :DL

I wanted to go and sink some POlish ships as well, starting a career in Kiel, but the game (Steam-dopnloaded) crashes whenever I load a mission from there. Odd. Weird. Unexpected and irritating, I add.

Lastly, I still miss the very last piece of GWX, this one: http://www.filefront.com/13954593/GWX3-7.bin/ I simply can't download it. Could some of you maybe try and see if it works (perhaps it's just me, but I think that it's a problem with the website itself)?

I already like very much SH3, it makes you go from utter boredom during navigation and scouting to excitement and well.... immersion during attacks and bombings by airplanes (got some of those as well, luckily no damage). And the satisfaction to see a ship sink, well, wonderful! I think it will increase when I'll learn to do it all by myself.:woot:

Thsnk to everybody for your answers, as soon as that website is so kind to restart doing what it's supposed to do I'll tell you how I find GWX3Gold!

[frau kaleun]

In the very first mission I simply forgot to perform shift and guard rotation among my crew members, as a result they were extremely tired during the whole trip back. Luckily I met no enemy ship or plane.

If you decide to get and use SH3 Commander (with or without GWX), you will be able to choose from several "crew fatigue" options that override the game's settings. The "no fatigue" option does away with it altogether, which means you don't have to worry about rotating your crew between rest and duty (which I like because in reality a ship's commander would not be required to perform that kind of crew micro-management anyway).

I have not tried the other options but I would guess they would each be some sort of compromise between the game's fatigue settings and no crew fatigue at all.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Colleghi Comandanti,


I have managed to play four missions with "vanilla" (sacrificing a total of 1 hour of study altogether, so perhaps the other user was quite right in his warning:D), using a Type II-D. For the time being I have managed to sink a Frachter and a C2 Cargo. Very meager score, but hey I'm still learning. For now I am not using manual targeting, I'll put that later on.


I'm amazed it was only 1 hour of study lost to the oceans. Some patrols you barely find anything and then find all your torpedoes are dud (that is MY excuse!:hmmm:) so sinking anything is success in my book.:up:

[frau kaleun]

I'm amazed it was only 1 hour of study lost to the oceans.

Ditto.

I lost a three day weekend once.

It was like Ray Milland in "The Lost Weekend," only with u-boats instead of booze and no creepy hallucinations (as far as I know). Plus I didn't have to leave the house looking like a hobo to get my fix. :O:

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Oh, that's just beacause I normally don't study in the evening except in the very last days before the exam. :D But in reality, yesterday morning I should have got on my Canon Law book and read a bit of another that I need for my thesis, and instead went sailing for one hour. Tried to sink a Kustenschiff but I damaged its screws and rudder. Started burning and taking water in the stern compartment however did not go down. So I used my last torpedo (those II-D have few of them, can't wait to get enough renown to obtain the VII class, moreover because it has the CANNON:rock:) but due to a very steep angle of impact it did not explode. :damn: My error.:damn:

Went back to base and then to my books with a sense of incompletion looming over me. Is this game giving me ALREADY addiction? How rapid! what will happen when I get SH4 in my mail then?:haha:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Is this game giving me ALREADY addiction? How rapid! what will happen when I get SH4 in my mail then?:haha:

If you're like me it'll sit on the shelf untouched while SHiii & GWX & other fantastic mods exist.

[Jimbuna]

I wanted to go and sink some POlish ships as well, starting a career in Kiel, but the game (Steam-dopnloaded) crashes whenever I load a mission from there. Odd. Weird. Unexpected and irritating, I add.

Lastly, I still miss the very last piece of GWX, this one: http://www.filefront.com/13954593/GWX3-7.bin/ I simply can't download it. Could some of you maybe try and see if it works (perhaps it's just me, but I think that it's a problem with the website itself)?


Thsnk to everybody for your answers, as soon as that website is so kind to restart doing what it's supposed to do I'll tell you how I find GWX3Gold!

The above link leads to Kpt Lehmann FF account, unfortunately some of the files contained there and also some at the GWX website have been reported as being faulty.

Get the files from my FF account (link above my sig).

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No problem, I managed to download it and started a campaign. It's really TOTALLY different from "normal" SH3 and as far as I can tell a way better experience. I'll get on the first wartime mission this evening (I am thinking onhow to get through the Pas de Calais: on one side Dover, on the other Calais cela va etre un trés grand probléme je pense! :D

But can't one start with Type II U-Booten anymore? I liked those a lot, mainly because there is less crew management to do (on the long run it is tiring to shift the crew around, and besides, did a real Kaleun do that?.... I doubt it!). Of course, the Type VII is more powerful. :cool:

[Jimbuna]

No problem, I managed to download it and started a campaign. It's really TOTALLY different from "normal" SH3 and as far as I can tell a way better experience. I'll get on the first wartime mission this evening (I am thinking onhow to get through the Pas de Calais: on one side Dover, on the other Calais cela va etre un trés grand probléme je pense! :D

But can't one start with Type II U-Booten anymore? I liked those a lot, mainly because there is less crew management to do (on the long run it is tiring to shift the crew around, and besides, did a real Kaleun do that?.... I doubt it!). Of course, the Type VII is more powerful. :cool:

Get SH3 Commander from:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=733

Now get the GWX3.0 CFG for SH3 Commander from my FF account (link above my sig).

You will now be able to start your career in a Type IIA in the 1st Flotilla.

[RegioSommergibile]

Grazie Comandante!! I must install first the new mod and only then the GWX3 CFG, right? No need to reinstall GWX from start, correct?:)

[Jimbuna]

Grazie Comandante!! I must install first the new mod and only then the GWX3 CFG, right? No need to reinstall GWX from start, correct?:)

That is corect, SH3 is a standalone programme, once you have installed it (usually to C\Program Files activate the CFG and point it (if asked) to the Commander root folder.

[Brag]

Regio, Benvenuto a bordo! :salute:

Get the files from Jimbuna´s signature. When downloading make sure the exe file is there too.

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Done and tried it on a mission! Really, also this Commander is an excellent work. I think now I'm all set to truly start a campaign! :yeah:

On my last trip, I was ordered to patrol map reticle BF16. While on my way there, off the port of Calais, I came across a coastal freighter flying French flag, and so sice it was the 19th of september I went to attack it. With 3 torpedoes in its belly it went to keep company to Neptune. Then resumed my way to that reticle (FAR, more precisely way off Cornwall!!!) but didn't resist to the temptation, being in the middle of the night, to sneak in the port of Cherbourg. There I showed a french Coastal Tanker anchored at the pier who's the boss around these parts, and it made a painful acquaintance with my other two forward torpedoes. Now I have just one to use in the rest of patrol, and I hope no surprises come around! While going away I came across a small patrol motorboat, I believe british, and had to dive to escape from it. Then I met a big French cargo, and used the cannon against it, but then had to abort because a) it proved itself to be more than resilient, just burning a bit here and there while my crew was pumping shells in its hull and b) the torpedo boat was coming back probably summoned by the sailors on the freighter.

I submerged and went away, and now I'm 400 km from my patrol zone.

And then, back home in Wilhelmshaven for some rest and tonnage counting.:)

[Jimbuna]

Come 1940 I wouldn't be going anywhere near the English Channel.

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/1309/seagullmine.jpg

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Colleghi Comandanti,

On my way back, I have been intercepted by an armed trawler a tthe service of His Majesty the King:D I went under water and I am going very slow (1-2 knots) in schleichfahrt at 20-22 metres (the total depth is 27). I am trying to travel in different directions (first W, then a piece to N, then S, and so on) to see if I can confuse that boat. I have no torpedoes, and I am sure that if I surface it will attack with the cannon before I can do the same with mine.

Any sugggestions on how to behave and shake that trawler off??

[Jimbuna]

I suspect your position is hopeless....if you are able, let the trawler go over the top of you then quckly surface and try to get in a few well placed shots before he can bring his heavy forward gun to bear.

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There is a thing that does not appear on the box under "system requirements"... it should read like this: Human: PATIENCE v 10.0 :D:D

I simply deicded to stand still and quiet at the bottom and see who got tired first. He did. I managed to go on, but at the last moment in front of Dunkerque I was attacked by a British desttroyer, and took the very, very unwise decision to make a gunfight with it. Result: quite some damage all over the boat and my Watch officer went to book a one way ticket on Charon's boat.

I submerged and was quiet for a while like before, letting my men repair the damages in the meantime. This also got tired and went away. The rest of the trip home was uneventful.

Tally of my first war patrol: one Coastal Tanker, one Medium Freighter and a Schleppe (don't know the translation, sloop maybe?)

Not terrible, I must say. :rock:

[Jimbuna]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[RegioSommergibile]

Stimato collega Comandante Jimbuna,


In the next patrol, I was even less aggressive: I sank (I am almost ashamed to admit it) with the cannon a single COAL BARGE. Then, I went on to my patrol zone, saving my torpedoes for my way back through the Dover strait, thinking that I could meet a jucy convoy or wait for the night around a French port and get in there. But no, the weather became very bad, with rain and high sea, and it stayed this way until my return at Wilhelmshaven, 2500 km From Ireland to home, all with rain and waves and fog. No prossibility to see, much less to sink something.

So, 314 Tons sank :damn:

Is it normal that the weather remanis the same way for so long? As far as I can tell, in stock SH3 it was more varied.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Stimato collega Comandante Jimbuna,


In the next patrol, I was even less aggressive: I sank (I am almost ashamed to admit it) with the cannon a single COAL BARGE. Then, I went on to my patrol zone, saving my torpedoes for my way back through the Dover strait, thinking that I could meet a jucy convoy or wait for the night around a French port and get in there. But no, the weather became very bad, with rain and high sea, and it stayed this way until my return at Wilhelmshaven, 2500 km From Ireland to home, all with rain and waves and fog. No prossibility to see, much less to sink something.

So, 314 Tons sank :damn:

Is it normal that the weather remanis the same way for so long? As far as I can tell, in stock SH3 it was more varied.

I think you're doing just fine, little and often soon adds up! I often return with zero tonnage, whether it's dud torpedoes or crap aim on my part who is to say! :wah:

On the weather, I've worked in Ancona for a couple of months and the weather was pretty much glorious the whole time, and in the North Sea it rains quite a lot. It's sunny out my window right now but I know where I'd rather be. :cool:

[Jimbuna]

Stimato collega Comandante Jimbuna,


In the next patrol, I was even less aggressive: I sank (I am almost ashamed to admit it) with the cannon a single COAL BARGE. Then, I went on to my patrol zone, saving my torpedoes for my way back through the Dover strait, thinking that I could meet a jucy convoy or wait for the night around a French port and get in there. But no, the weather became very bad, with rain and high sea, and it stayed this way until my return at Wilhelmshaven, 2500 km From Ireland to home, all with rain and waves and fog. No prossibility to see, much less to sink something.

So, 314 Tons sank :damn:

Is it normal that the weather remanis the same way for so long? As far as I can tell, in stock SH3 it was more varied.


I would not get used to sailing through the English Channel because it soon becomes heavily mined in a similar fashion to that of the east coast of England.

The weather has always been a talking point but is a difficult one to resolve to everyones satisfaction.

[RegioSommergibile]

Collega Jimbuna,
Thanks for the advice!!!


Collega Herr Berbunch,

this is true, weather after all IS relistic. I forgot where I was exactly:DL. I was in Ancona as well, 4 months ago: you can find the Volunteer Selection Centre of our Navy, I was there for the tests as Auxiliary Officer in the Coast Guard! May I ask if you were there for pleasure or for work?


Today, a fruitful patrol. I was assigned to patrol a zone way west from Brest adn while on my way there and on the way back, I managed to send to Davy Jones' Locker these ships:

-Kustentanker (1253 tons) F (in Cherbourg port. The coastal defense of those frog-eaters* did get a couple of shots at me that found their mark, but my damage control team performed quite well and all was in order in a short time)

Kleines Fischcutter (83 tons) F

Same as above (83 tons)

I sank these two with my cannon, otherwise the men get too lazy on a long trip, they have to be ready at all times!!!! ;-)

Kleines Frachter (3512 tons) UK

Grosses Frachtschiff (7844 tons) UK

Mittelgrosser Frachtschiff (5444 tons) F (I sank this with my two last rear torpedoes in a Dutch harbour, I was passing by during the night on my way back to Wilhelmshaven and told to myself "let's check if there is sonething interesting", and among all those Dutch ships I found also this one, and it promply made acquaintance with my torpedoes:D)


7 Medals to distribute plus a medal for myself! :salute: Good!

(*moi, je mange tambien les grenouilles quelque fois, c'est un plat typique dan certaines regiones du nord d'Italie)

[Herr-Berbunch]

Collega Jimbuna,
Thanks for the advice!!!


Collega Herr Berbunch,

this is true, weather after all IS relistic. I forgot where I was exactly:DL. I was in Ancona as well, 4 months ago: you can find the Volunteer Selection Centre of our Navy, I was there for the tests as Auxiliary Officer in the Coast Guard! May I ask if you were there for pleasure or for work?

I was at the airport providing communications for the tanker aircraft supporting the Kosovo conflict in 1999. Was living up the coast in Senigallia, and having a great time.

[RegioSommergibile]

Is there a way I can operate the hydrophones myself, or it is al in the hands (and the ears) of the sonarman?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Is there a way I can operate the hydrophones myself, or it is al in the hands (and the ears) of the sonarman?

You can indeed use the hydrophone, simply click on it and move the needle around. If you lower your view slightly there is a volume knob which has some three settings - click on the left or right side of the knob to adjust (I think?).

Also check out this thread:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=154461

Hope this helps :yeah:

[Jimbuna]

Is there a way I can operate the hydrophones myself, or it is al in the hands (and the ears) of the sonarman?


If you have a pair of earphones, plug em in and turn the volume up....you may be suprised to hear some of the sounds.