Simple question, what is the SH3 directory? and where can I find it? Thanks

If anyone can help, I just bought a new wide screen monitor, and would like to change the game to a hi-res, I have a windows XP computer, I also cannot find that D3D9 config file. Thanks for the help.

You can download the files needed from the mirrors listed above. I just downloaded them, but am unsure as what to do next to be honest. Is there a tried and tested method of doing this? Would be very nice to run GWX 2.0 in higher resolution!

Hello Marko Ramius.
What exactly are you using? Im interested in what you use cos it appears that I have a quite similar monitor myself.
Searching for "SH3_XPSP"_etc didn´t gave any result at all.

I fully agree to this:yep:

Hi guys,

Here it is : http://files.filefront.com/SH3+XPSP2.../fileinfo.html


I really don't know who to thanks about this file ; If you (creator of the zip) read this ---> :rock: :rock:


Part of the readme :

" Just copy the two batch files and the SHIII.sdb file to your SH3 directory,
and run the "SP2 Res fix.bat".(I've included a batch file to uninstall the
fix should you ever need to.)

I've included the d3d9.dll and d3d9.cfg in case you don't already have it.


Thanks to Kegetys for dx9res10 and to +G for the idea of creating this zip. "



After the files are in SH3 directory and run the batch file, open : "d3d9.cfg" in notepad, you should find some text with this :

resX=1680
resY=1050
useFiltering=1
enableScreenshots=1
screenshotPath=.

This is the content of mine. Change the line : ResX=xxx // ResYxxx like you want and enjoy.

And , again, SH3 looks awasome !! I was first a bit disapointed by the change, but quickly , i was so happy, LOL !!

My GWX2.0 harbour is slow enough without higher resolutions! :-? ...but still interesting to know it can be done, maybe for when I upgrade next.

Can you get true widescreen or is it stretched to fit?

Looks like it´s stretched but seem to work fine so far

Meridian, you may have at last saved my sanity. I had this fix running for years till I changed my LCD...... now it no longer works (60hz refresh rate) :damn: . Guess I'm going to have to revert to CRT or finder a better LCD. Do they even make LCD's that refresh @75hz or higher in a 1600x1200 or higher reso ??????? I'll have to go on a hunt.

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner.

EDIT: It suddenly occured to me that so many skippers ask this question I'm surprised this solution hasn't been stickied, along with the amazing refresh rate prob discovered by Meridian.

Thought it might be. Often I've seen people get excited about 'widescreen' resolutions in games, only to find it's stretched. If you want a strecthed widescreen you nvidia control panel can do this anyway (if you have nvidia). I always prefer fixed aspect.

Hi, I too had difficulty getting this game going.

The 75Hz trick did it for me.
I have an 8800GTS card, running on a LCD monitor.
You need to create a custom resolution refresh rate >60hz.
I went with 1680x1050@75hz and the game now starts.

The windows application compatibility trick listed here should work, for most folks.
However that batch file listed, SH3_XPSP2_Res_Fix_for_1.4b.zip, will not work properly unless you also have the M$ WAC tool installed. It's not required, that is if the author should have distributed sdbinst.exe with that batch file (there would be no need to install the WAC tool at all if that were the case).

My game works, but it is "stretched to fit". Now how do you fix that, easy if you have an Nvidia card. Use Nvidia Control panel, go into Display, then "Change Flat Panel Scaling" and select Use Nvidia Scaling with Fixed Aspect Ratio. Use a 4:3 resolution in your d3d9.cfg file. Good bye stretch to fit, however this feature will not work properly with an 8800GTS card! Arrgh, a reboot looses the setting or worse it stays grayed out.

High resolution fix
 

:) Hi :)

I saw that some of you had trouble to change resolution .
Ok , here's what you all do :

I have a FileFront link , click on that link , there you will find a high res.fix mod.
Download it .
If you has used the Microsoft compability kit uninstall it , and delete it .
With the new res.fix there's no use for the compability kit .
Ok , once you had deleted it , go to the folder where you download the res.fix , and use the winzip to unzip it to : " C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\silent hunter III " directory , and open up the high.res.fix .
In the high.res.fix you see these files + readme text :

* d3d9.cfg
* d3d9.dll
* SHIII sdb
* SP2 Rez fix unins...
* SP2 Rez fix.bat .

The one-1 bat files:
"Servicepack 2 rez fix bat" double click on it , and it will install it self to your BIOS automatically .
The other file Service Pack unins = Uninstall , you must use that one if you want to uninstall for different reasons , once you done this , go into the "d3d9.cfg" file and
cfg what resolution you will use , it must be the SAME resolution you use in your monitor , when you done that , go back to the SHIII folder in "My documents",
and set the same resolution you have in d3d9.cfg file , and when you finished do that , then go back to your main directory : C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\silent hunter III\data\cfg" and open up the Main file , and set the same resolution like you done earlier , and you done. That's it :yeah:

And how does it work in Vista than?????

ahoy mates,

I fixed this problem myself by doing this (for windows xp):



go to start>my computer>the hard drive where you have SH3 installed>program files>ubisoft>silent hunter III>data>cfg

in this directory, you will see lots of .cfg files.

>right click on Main.cfg

>mouse over "open with" then choose wordpad or notepad

then you will have the .cfg file opened up. in here you'll see lots of program commands and variables. scroll down to the section titled "Video"

In the "video" section, you will see an entry called "Resolution." Just replace the values in this space with the resolution that you want. 1280 x 1024 is what I am running.

Before you close this window, be sure to save! Don't bother with "save as" just do an old-fashioned save. If you do not save, you'll just have to open this window and do it again.




FYI

I also turned on Dynamic Shadows from here. Just change the "no" to "yes"


hope this helps. I think this is much much easier than doing the aforementioned methods.

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:) It's look like someone repeated me almost:woot: :woot: :woot: :yawn:

Thank's
 

Thank's alot this thread helped out big time!:rock: