Viewing the Gun Stations

[SinkingFeeling]

I've come back to SHIII after a lengthy layoff. Now I have a PC capable of running it in its full GWX enhanced glory I intend to make quite the nuisance of myself amongst the shipping lanes. However, I've run into a bit of a snag in my plan for maritime domination...

When I press F10 or F11 to go to either of the gun stations, nothing happens. I've tried it both manned and unmanned with no difference. I'm running GWX Gold with only a few mods (Merchant Fleet Mod and Contact Colours). Has anyone run into something like this before and worked out what caused it, or am I being special again?

I could carry on happily just using torpedoes on the bigger targets, but there's something just plain satisfying about hurling huge lumps of metal at high velocity...

[u crank]

Hi SinkingFeeling.

Only thing that comes to mind is weather. You can't man or view those stations in rough weather.

[SinkingFeeling]

Thanks for the thought, but it was dead calm at the time...

I can't test anything out at the moment, as it is blowing a gale and I'm in somewhat of a precarious situation. Outside Scapa on the 2nd of September '39.

[Maceaciadh]

waiting for the hood are you lol i ran into her there on the 3rd once.

are you using a laptop? i am and i cant use the F-XX shortcuts because all the buttons are taken up so i have to mouse click them. also the F button will take you to main flak gun anyway.

there is a mod somewhere to reassign keys so you could use that to put in a CTRL command to get to the deck gun

[Pisces]

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are you using a laptop? i am and i cant use the F-XX shortcuts because all the buttons are taken up so i have to mouse click them. also the F button will take you to main flak gun anyway.
...There usually is a blue Fn button that key-combos with other buttons to provide different functions. I've seen this being used (as far as waaaaay back in the early 90s) to provide a number key-pad, contrast/brightness/LCD-off/volume/Sleep/Stand-by buttons and also Fxx buttons on laptops. Look for smaller Fxx symbols on your buttons in grey or blue. When in doubt, RTFM of your laptop.

[SinkingFeeling]

I'm actually on a desktop machine, and the rest of the F keys work a treat. I rebooted the machine and restarted SH3 and it seems to have done the trick. I guess it was just one of those aberrations. It's funny, I thought the 'Malfunction and Sabotage' option in SH3 Commander was meant to act on the submarine, not my keyboard! :D

Thanks for your help gentlemen, much appreciated!

Now, back to wandering around outside Scapa yelling "Here Hoody, Hoody, I've got a nice eel here for you!"