Modding Challenge: start game paused

[Canovaro]

Because of the loading times of SH3 saved games, it would be nice if you could fire it up, and go do some dish washing, feed your dog, or do some shaving (no forget that) :smug:.
And then come back and find your game loaded and paused, waiting for you to press a key and start playing immediately.

As far as I tried, one could change the default gaming speed (RealTime=1) to 0 (it's in the main.cfg file). This will start the game paused, but will pause the game when switching between most stations as well. So that's not good enough.

Has anyone ever tried to make the game start paused?

[Magic1111]

Because of the loading times of SH3 saved games, it would be nice if you could fire it up, and go do some dish washing, feed your dog, or do some shaving (no forget that) :smug:.
And then come back and find your game loaded and paused, waiting for you to press a key and start playing immediately.

As far as I tried, one could change the default gaming speed (RealTime=1) to 0 (it's in the main.cfg file). This will start the game paused, but will pause the game when switching between most stations as well. So that's not good enough.

Has anyone ever tried to make the game start paused?

Hi !

It is an interesting Idea, that after Loading a Savegame the Game is in Paused Modus ! :up:

But for me not necessary;), because I´ve loading times with all Super-MODs plus many additional MODs from 3 - 4 Minutes ! And that´s not enough time for dish washing, feed the dog and so on.....:haha:

Best regards,
Magic

[Madox58]

Hi !


But for me not necessary;), because I´ve loading times with all Super-MODs plus many additional MODs from 3 - 4 Minutes ! And that´s not enough time for dish washing, feed the dog and so on.....:haha:


Mrs. privateer would have my head if I did not do the dishes.
Storm would have the rest of me if I did not feed him!
:o
:haha:
:up:

[Magic1111]

Mrs. privateer would have my head if I did not do the dishes.
Storm would have the rest of me if I did not feed him!
:o
:haha:
:up:


... that would be with me as well ...:haha:

[SquareSteelBar]

... that would be with me as well ...:haha:You know Mrs. privateer...?

[M00nStalker]

Not a mod but a workaround idea came to mind.

When I play SH3 I like to have my usual music playing when just cruising along and then I pause it when something happens (action, I need to think/calculate). To achieve this I use foobar and G15 keyboard controls.

The reason I mentioned this is because I noticed that I can't control this when SH3 is loading (at loading screen), it's as if the action (play/pause/change track) is suspended until SH3 has finished loading. When it is fully loaded it starts/stops the music or change the track playing. It can be used as a sort of crude notification system so that I can hear when the loading is done.

I was thinking that it is possible to make this work with an external macro application, you bind the pause key (in SH3) to a key or a key combination and then when the loading starts you press this key (or keys). If it works anything like my music it will pause the game after it has loaded, everything being ready to play whenever you get back.

Now, I can't test this currently but I'll see what I can do tomorrow or during/after the weekend but it shouldn't be to hard to test.

[Magic1111]

You know Mrs. privateer...?

??? :hmmm:

No, I don´t know Mrs. privateer, I mean Mrs. Magic1111....! ;)

Maybe I´ve write the wrong english words..... Google translate me that from german to english....

[frau kaleun]

??? :hmmm:

No, I don´t know Mrs. privateer, I mean Mrs. Magic1111....! ;)

Maybe I´ve write the wrong english words..... Google translate me that from german to english....

Nope, I think your English conveyed the correct sentiment just fine... but since Privateer said that Mrs. Privateer would have his head, and the sentiment you conveyed was essentially "same here," the joke was that your head would also be had by Mrs. Privateer (since you didn't specifiy that it was your wife who would have it instead). :D

[Madox58]

Mrs. Privateer does collect heads.
:o

Once when I was haveing a 'Discussion' with a number of Bouncers
over an Arse Head?
She jumped over the Bouncers and broke the Arse Heads Nose!
:rock:

And NO!
I do not argue with her!
I live in the Land of Mama.
The rule here is:
If Mama ain't Happy?
Ain't nobody Happy!
:har:

[frau kaleun]

Mrs. Privateer does collect heads.
:o

Once when I was haveing a 'Discussion' with a number of Bouncers
over an Arse Head?
She jumped over the Bouncers and broke the Arse Heads Nose!
:rock:

And NO!
I do not argue with her!
I live in the Land of Mama.
The rule here is:
If Mama ain't Happy?
Ain't nobody Happy!
:har:

I am intrigued by Mrs. Privateer's ideas, and would like to subscribe to her newsletter. :D

[Jimbuna]

Mrs. Privateer does collect heads.
:o

Once when I was haveing a 'Discussion' with a number of Bouncers
over an Arse Head?
She jumped over the Bouncers and broke the Arse Heads Nose!
:rock:

And NO!
I do not argue with her!
I live in the Land of Mama.
The rule here is:
If Mama ain't Happy?
Ain't nobody Happy!
:har:

Oh come on now, she aint usually like that....in fact she made a perfect photographers assistant to me in Texas.

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[flakmonkey]

You might be able to do this by twiddling around with the tc settings with sh3 commander, setting realtime to 0x/paused etc... im just thinking out loud but it might work... then again how much can you really do in 2 mins!