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mj3437
10-13-13, 12:00 AM
Now my saved game is gone? SHIII was on "D" drive and when I upgraded from Vista Home Basic (32bit) to Win & 64 bit (On "C" drive) I can start the game but my saved career is not available:huh: Can I salvage my saved career, or should I start a new one? I had a bit of tonnage and would hate to lose it. Thanks.
MJ
HW3
10-13-13, 12:06 AM
Your saved career info was saved in the SH3 folder in your "my Documents" file, which was on your C Drive. If you wiped the C drive before installing Win 7 on it, it is gone.
desertstriker
10-13-13, 12:19 AM
If there is a Win old (or somethhing like that) then it will be in there somewhere
Pisces
10-13-13, 07:57 AM
... when I upgraded from Vista Home Basic (32bit) to Win & 64 bit (On "C" drive) ...You can't upgrade from a 32 bit Windows OS to a 64bit version. Well, maybe you are allowed, but you shouldn't! You would have to do a completely clean installation of Windows 7 64-bit to make use of it. Sorry, upgrading 32 to 64 bit is simply unsupported. (= likely faulty and untrustworthy)

Check your (My) Documents folder for a SH3 folder. That should have your campaign and commander profile files in it. As long as the game has the exact same mods applied (and in the exact same order), then you can reuse those files in your 'new' SH3 game installation.
mj3437
10-13-13, 09:50 AM
It was a complete new install of Win 7, I had saved a lot from the "C" drive to an external HD so maybe it is there. I will break out the external HD and see if I can find it. I'll get back to you.
MJ
mj3437
10-13-13, 10:40 AM
I found the SHIII folder, now do I just put it in my documents?
MJ
sublynx
10-13-13, 10:50 AM
That should do the trick.
mj3437
10-13-13, 11:08 AM
Thanks guys, I'll do it and hopefully I can continue with my patrol. I'll report in later.
MJ
mj3437
10-13-13, 03:05 PM
Good news! I got my old patrol back but noww I have a black border on both sides of the screen like I'm in windowed mode. I have checked in the options that I have full screen ticked, and it is. Is there a wide screen setting somewhere that I need to address?
MJ
Pisces
10-13-13, 04:44 PM
Good news! I got my old patrol back but noww I have a black border on both sides of the screen like I'm in windowed mode. I have checked in the options that I have full screen ticked, and it is. Is there a wide screen setting somewhere that I need to address?
MJThe game is a 4:3 resolution, but you probably have a widescreen. If you want the screen to be stretched across the black borders on the screen then things will get to look squished and flat. Is that really what you want?

Your graphics card drivers probably have a configuration panel where you can set this scaling.

There is a widescreen mod for SH3, but it doesn't really change the fact that the game only expects a 1024x768 GUI. And I never really used it, so I'll shut up now.

This mod (MAGUI) does provide a changed GUI layout specifically for widescreen ratios. But you need to use the apporpriate sub-mod for the exact resolution that you use:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=175278