CTD within 40 Km to Tokyo port

[commandosolo2009]

Help skippers!!! having a hard time trying to reach tokyo port, with all the gunboats, and DDs going like crazy!!!

I wonder what is so precious that they're keeping that amount of cover (also strain on my beautiful CPU) on!


I tried raising periscope. No good. It seems I'm heading to an unfinished part of the game, or my lap is going berserk..


Any feed on this would be much appreciated!!!:timeout::salute:


Luckily I have a save before I went into Tokyos lair, and a one on my trans-pacific trek. In case I run into a valuable target, which part of a ship do you usually target? command deck? stacks, or propellers? P.S. I vouch for Magnetic detonators in this game. Yes, sir! they work! and they need certain 'parameters' unless the eels themselves were dud!

You need perfectly calm waters, a static target with no wakes, and a distance under a 1000 meters. Hard? well, the payout is excellent, when that last eel can score you a 8k+ tonne ship >>>

[Armistead]

Not sure bud.. They're lot's of ports, ships within the contact zone, may just be too much from your laptop. I lag myself on my DT in some of those areas.

Before torps are fixed you'll suffer about a 50% failure either way. If you use influence on M14s, if they fail, they will premature, if contact, they'll dud, but either way about 50%..with TMO anyway. They're many factors that have values that effect torps, speed, angle, rough water, ect..

Targeting, depends on mods, with the megamods damage zones are redone, so you need to spread your torps, hit the same spot little damage. Also depends on a balance of flooding and blast zones, so playing TMO need to spread. Also depends on loadouts, ships carrying oil, fuel, ammo, ect. They have internal and external cargo. I've sunk 5 ships with one torp before hitting a ship full of oil or ammo and the explosions domino to other ships.

I just did the Battle of Santa Cruz, got one carrier and 3 CA's in a storm. Went to Tulagi to refit and here come the japs, about 10 Nagaras going full out at 19kts with a nice DD screen. Great group to attack Oct 14, 42, they come north end of Savo and stop at Lunga Point, then out, but on the 15th another CA TF comes in the same path and joins them and they basically leave together. Even seen some PT boats attack.

[commandosolo2009]

well, Armistead, I'll take my chances elsewhere then. Maybe after I klean my fan (66°C CPU heat when playing vanilla on a 3 month old sony vaio laptop:timeout:)... Shizuka it is then Dutch or Midway then Celebes Sea...

[Armistead]

Time to get a gaming DT so you can enjoy all the features of the game.

You probably could do some of the Solomons battles as long as you stayed away from the US and JP large surface battles, 30 or so ships blasting the hell out of each other with those big guns is a load, but sounds good. Between Augs and Dec...you hardly know what to do with all the TF.,

Been playing in the Solomons Oct and Nov, you can about walk on the JP TF's.

Cams off, contacts on. SS's suck cuz using a 7800 video card as mine fried.
I do the Battle of Santa Cruz and attack another TF after that, but I ran out of torps after sinking 1 carrier, 3 Furataka CA's.
Headed to Tulagi to refit, thinking I'll hang around for the battle of GC, since I don't think I can dock repair and get back in time.
Along comes a convoy I haven't attacked. About 8-10 Nagara's going 19kts, full speed with a bunch of DD's. They come right by the N. end of Savo to Lunga Point. Nice fun group to attack, only a few DD's made it though, .
http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu235/Armistead1424/SH4Img2011-01-03_002958_875.jpg

http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu235/Armistead1424/SH4Img2011-01-03_000709_109.jpg
http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu235/Armistead1424/SH4Img2011-01-03_014038_468.jpg
Two Nagaras coming, almost DTT at the same time.
http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu235/Armistead1424/SH4Img2011-01-03_121958_437.jpg
This is the convoy of Nagaras in the long line .
Another TF of CA's lil north of it.
http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu235/Armistead1424/SH4Img2011-01-03_015523_359.jpg

[Takao]

66 degrees Celsius isn't that bad. I wouldn't worry until you start hitting the 80's.

Tokyo is workable, but not at high TC, been there a few times in a vanilla campaign. Sounds like the graphics card may not be quite up to the task.

[commandosolo2009]

66 degrees Celsius isn't that bad. I wouldn't worry until you start hitting the 80's.

Tokyo is workable, but not at high TC, been there a few times in a vanilla campaign. Sounds like the graphics card may not be quite up to the task.


Oh yes sir 66C surely is!!! But guess what! I got a can of compressed air from the Shack, and actually blew alot of dust (well not that much) but it made a HUGE difference!!! from 66C to 48C peak gaming.. I'll report back the temp after christening the laptop again ;)

Thanks for the input fellas!!!

[Takao]

Whoa, that was a lot of "dust bunnies".

Going back to it, I was thinking of the GPU temp, not the CPU temp, in my last post. Sorry, for the mistake.