The sensors are way to sensitive for the Japanese side with FOTRS. From an historical authentic point of view, the Japanese capabilities at best were mediocre....at worst non existent. During the war, we gave them way too much credit for their equipment. We discovered this after the war when both the U.S. Army and Air Corp concluded studies on Japanese equipment and research.

That's not to say there isn't value in giving the AI a sporting chance in this game, or a challenge for the home team. But, to compare what the FOTRS AI capabilities are compared to what the real life counterparts actually could do.....its like comparing an orange to a raisin.

... juicy to dried-up...

I was just curious. I try to keep my radar on only momentarily when i get near enemy ships. But against task forces they just home in on me no matter what i do. I just avoid them now, unless they are coming straight at me and i can dive to get underneath them (.ie pop up to attack once they are ontop of me).

What's weird is that if it's just a straight up merchant convoy, the escorts are easy.

I've found getting under them doesn't work all the time either. I've been put down while running silent at 600 ft under a thermal layer. :doh:

What do these orangish "up" arrows on my crew mean? I've never seen them before. Or maybe i have and just dont remember.

http://i.imgur.com/Fti2nP2.png

They have been promoted.

I've been promoting them all campaign and never saw it before. Weird.

Actually the arrows signify that the individual crewman has enough experience to be promoted. Like you said you actually have to promote them when in port.

Thank you for this valuable input! I was not aware that there was a conflict between LAA and the 4Gb patch. I have used both based my grandfather's credo that if a little is good, more is better. But if you recommend only using the LAA, I will do so exclusively. And I will reload without the two small environmental mods to continue testing, even though that clearer water is a delight and a valuable tool to those of us who love the eye candy views. The ambient sound mod was recommended to get rid of the annoying hydraulic noise that occurs over and over and over and over!

So this is how I am setting up SH4 to run under my 64-bit Win7 Pro system. First I unload all mods from JSGME, and delete the SH4 folder in My Documents. I then delete the Silent_Hunter_IV folder from my C:Games\Ubisoft\ directory. I do not do a formal "uninstall" of SH4 since none of the locations are changing with regard to registry entries, at least as far as I can tell for the last few years.

Next I copy the pristine v1.5 that I keep in a folder named Silent_Hunter_IV over to the C:\games\ubisoft\ directory, run LAA (I will skip the 4Gb patch in the future, copy the FOTARS latest version (public) to JSGME, and activate it. I will then start a new career, based first out of Pearl and then transfer to Midway when that becomes available. I think that will give me a valid test platform. Please let me know if I've missed anything.

GameBooster4 is freeware that I run immediately prior to starting SH4 to turn off all the crappy applications that run in the background and eat up memory when all I want to do is run a memory eating game. It is configurable, and I use it to stop processes that are not needed for gaming, such as automatic updates, etc. The GameBooster4 app reports that it speeds up my machine by 44%. When I close the game, GameBooster4 restores all the apps, processes and services it closed and life goes on. Using the Boost mode allows me to run TC at a full 8192 without stutter when crossing the wide Pacific, a boon to those of us who have no patience!

On one other note, is there any consideration being given to giving users the option to remove that annoying orange marker showing my boat's location? Those of us who use the external cameras really don't need it, and it is a distraction, regardless of color. It spoils the view.

[QUOTE=CapnScurvy;2459332]Torpedobait, when I look at your computer specs......

Updated my signature block to show actual computer specs as of today.

Using two different 4gb patches should be harmless. All these programs do is turn on a flag in the .exe. Unless ofcourse the second one flips it back to off :)

That will be a mod choice for later, yes indeedy!


Could very well be... The NTCore one is older, and originally made for WinXP 32-bit, to enable a program to go beyond 2 gig on those old beasts... back in the heady, early days of massive quantities of 4 gig of ram... :roll:

There is already a small mod for removing the orange marker from the ocean. After I get home from work this afternoon, I will post a linky for it here. :D :up:

I spent sometime last night looking at the task force mis.files. All ships are at the default status of veteran. I did notice that crew efficiency was still set at =3. I reset all ships to 1 for crew efficiency. It still remains to be seen if this will make a difference with the Japanese psychic DDs. I can tell you that I encountered a small task force west of the Marshall islands last night and they didn't know I was around until I put a couple of torpedoes into one of the cruisers.

Umark Removal...
 

Try this... :salute:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5...y1naUFDYmtFaUE