The Greywolves SuperMod
 

Hi Everybody

I have this annoying problem of installing the Grey Wolves Supermod on my windows xp, even though I have patched my sh3 (dvd) to 1.4b and have installed the greywolves to a clean unmodified sh3 directory.

But everytime I run the sh3 after installing the greywolves, I always encounter few problems.

Basically can someone please tell me in 'simple lamens' terms where in the hell am I am supposed to put the 4 remaining bin files after TGW11a.exe has been installed, its driving me nuts, as I have up to now uninstalled/reinstalled sh3 around 4 times now. I have even made a mods folder in the sh3 directory after a clean installation/patched to and then I will put the bin files in there, but I always get an error message saying something like the menu can't be found? I have had 'the menu can't be found error' 3 times now and once I got 'error 1305'.

Like when I go to run my sh3 game after greywolves has been installed, it will go to the main screen where the picture of the submarine and the red loading bar can be seen, it will load great, but after that it just crashes and thats when I get the error messages.

once TGW11a.exe has been installed, what do I do next? where do I put the 4 remaining bin files? is there something else I should download to get this mod working?

I absolutely love this game to the high heavens and pretty much know all the controls of the game to, so I really want to enjoy the greywolves supermod.


thank you so much in advance

The Greywolves SuperMod Cont:
 

ok after some deep reading in here I managed to somehow get it right so far, but it grieves me to say I have been up all night uninstalling/reinstalling/uninstalling/reinstalling blah blah blah .. when I make a brand new installation, I then patch it always successfully everytime, then I run the greywolves installer with the files downloaded individually from here

http://www.gamefront.com/files/user/ConningTower

again a total success everytime. Then when its time to play sh3 it goe's to the loading screen with no problems, then after say 2/3 minutes tops, the wait seems longer, anyway I then get to the actual menu screen where I can start a career, play a single mission ect, but I don't change anything, video graphics/audio settings ect, I just leave everything the way it is and go to play a single mission as I want to get straight into the game, so I pick a single mission and it loads up, but not entirely, like most of the red loading bar has loaded with only alittle to go, but it always just stays there and then hey hooo it eventually crashes.

Omg I really want to play this greywolves mod, I am so tired from sitting up all night trying for the life of me to get it right, but obviously I am missing something, not doing something. Is there another software I should download for this greywolves mod to work. I have windows xp and I know I have done mostly everything right so far, otherwise I would never get to where the single missions are.

When I start the game there is a picture of a wolf howling and then there is a huge torpedo spreading across the screen, so I know the greywolves mod has installed, but of course not entirely right.

Can someone please tell me in very simple lamens terms how I can achieve this greywolves mod setup without any real problems occuring everytime I start to play the game.

its really getting me down and I am rapidly losing interest

Thanks

Sorry your having difficulties and welcome to SubSim.

(In the simplest terms as per your request)

Uninstall SH3

Delete the SH3 folder in C\MyDocs

Perform a registry scan using regvac or crapcleaner (Google for them if necessary....craplcleaner is free and regvac has a free trial version).

Download the GWX3 exe and seven bin files from my FF account (link above my sig).

Click on my sig to access the Grey Wolves website and follow the installation instructions to the letter.

Good Luck Kaleun

Welcome to SubSim Captain S James!
 

:salute: You received good advice from Jimbuna now, so now you can overcome it you have had problems with,and good luck!

re:
 

hey thanks for the feedback Chief & Vendor, I thought I was gonna be totally in dark waters forever lol, I will get cracking of what you explained and I will get back to you.

btw brilliant site

The GWX website?

GWX3 Gold worked like a charm
 

hey Chief, I read the instructions right down to the last letter and blow me down with a feather, the installation worked like a charm, I never had the jsgme and config files, I did exactly what I read and bingo I struck gold first time, now the game loads beautifully without any hiccups, without your feedback, I reckon I would still be uninstalling/reinstalling blah blah blah lol, so thanks a million for your help.

Though I do have a question, when I was activating the mods via the jsgme, well there were a few mods that represented themselves as already been altered? and that enabling them may have adverse affects on my game, so I never activated them, was that the right thing to do? if not, how would I get around to fixing them so my game is not affected and if I did activate them, would my game become unstable?

thanks again :DL

sorry the SUBSIM forum is a great place :DL

That depends on which mods you get this message with. Some will cause this warning but they'll work anyway. Some won't. So with which mods exactly do you get this message?

Your most welcome http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...s/thumbsup.gif

Often what is overwritten when activating a mod is the readme file, so no big problem there.

When activating a mod that does not come with GWX you will get a warning and the file that is overwritten will be greyed out...keep a mental note of which one and only activate one at a time.

That way if you experience a CTD you need only disable the previously installed mod.

I'm afraid there are so many mods out there since the release of GWX you can often end up with mod soup.

I have been there many times.

Enjoy the GWXperience http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

If you do though, always remember it's delicious with crackers! :O:

Most insightful :DL

hey thanks for the input and the link, I will check that out.

Here is the mods that I was telling you about

as follows..

GWX-English Nav and grid refs

"Flotilla.cfg" has already been altered by the "GWX - Alternative Flotillas" mod.

GWX-Indian Ocean Campaign Files Only

"Campaign_RND.mis" has already been altered by the "GWX - Black Sea Campaign Files Only" mod.
"Campaign_SCR.mis" has already been altered by the "GWX - Black Sea Campaign Files Only" mod.


GWX-Lite Harbor Traffic

"Campaign_SCR.mis" has already been altered by the "GWX - Black Sea Campaign Files Only" mod.

GWX-Merged Campaign

"Campaign_RND.mis" has already been altered by the "GWX - Black Sea Campaign Files Only" mod.
"Campaign_SCR.mis" has already been altered by the "GWX - Black Sea Campaign Files Only" mod.

would it be ok to activate these

thanks:DL

I would suggest you read the mods section of your GWX manual to find out what each mod does (starts on page 23).

You certainly do not need to enable all of them :DL

The problem here is it looks as if you are trying to enable the Black Sea Campaign, and the Indian Ocean Campaign, and the Merged Campaign.

These 3 are not compatible with each other.

The Black Sea and Indian Ocean mods basically remove all traffic from the world except in those areas. It's done to cut down on loading times.

The Merged Campaign goes in the other direction.

From the manual
'The GWX Merged Campaign contains all elements of the GWX campaign in all ocean areas. This has the advantage of allowing players to transit between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans with all the campaign elements in place for their entire voyage; the downside is this version takes longer to load than the default GWX campaigns'

If you are new to GWX and want to sail in the Atlantic, I would suggest not enabling any of these three mods.


For further reading see page 23-43 of the GWX manual, which covers the Mods that come with GWX.

hey thanks for the info, brilliant stuff, you have made alot of things clear to me now and where to go find extra info if I need it in regard to the mods ect.

Though I have been having problems playing the multiplayer, when I go to create an account on 'play on ubi.com' it keeps telling me that there is an unkown error, any tips on getting around this.

thanks :DL

^ Great post http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

docking in base > Brest
 

Ok I have just accomplished my first mission in career mode, being that I reach CA29, then patrol CA29 for 24 hours and once done so, that I return to base being Brest, so I eventually get there and after alittle struggling with steering my sub into the dock in Brest, well I am just floating and nothing happens, as I half expected the game to suddenly end and then I go into my next mission, whatever that may be, but all my sub doe's is just float and thats it, nothing happens.

What am I not doing?

thanks

p.s. I apologise in advance if I have posted this into the wrong part of the forum and could the owners put it into the right one if I have.

Use, Esc key, to dock at keyboard :DL

Also you can take BDU's initial orders as just a starting point.

You have enough fuel and torpedoes to remain on patrol for several weeks.

After you have done your 24 hours you can freelance a bit.

In the Navigation screen you will see several pull down charts up at the top of the screen.

One of these is a map of the world with major shipping lanes/convoy routes. Feel free to do a little bit of exploring to find good hunting spots.

I tend to patrol my given grid box for 4 days, then if nothing is doing there I will move to an adjacent box for 4 days, and so on until I am down to about 20% fuel or have no torpedoes left.
Others here will just completely freelance from the word go and head straight to their favorite grid.

How you play it is entirely up to you :DL

But I would suggest you stay out for several weeks.

hey Max, you are a breath of fresh air, in regard to the 'esc' key, well I feel like a total dunce now (hanging head in shame) but hey ho not everyone knows everything right, I did search my game manual on how to dock, but to no avail, unless I never looked hard enough and I know I could have searched this forum, but I am glad I posted in my query now.

Though I had wondered whilst I was hunting the dark waters, well in my sub there is large clumps of meat hanging in the main station & fruit to ect, I was wondering, if the lads back in the day ever got food poisening, as am sure the meat must have gone off from time to time, did they not have any real refridgeration then, or had they not invented them yet?

But where you have mentioned up there about the pull down charts with the major shipping lanes/convoy routes ect, well when I was on my first mission (CA29) I never once saw any enemy ships, not a dicky bird and I wondered if may be my game had gotten a bug or something, but I reassured myself on that anyway, as on the single missions mode, well there is plenty. But yeh, thanks for the tip about the major shipping lanes/convoy routes, nice tip.

I don't suppose you know anything about multiplayer, as I was having problems getting online via the multiplayer option, then after managing to get online and reaching an actual games room, well someone kept telling me that I needed to ping them? I did ask what they meant by that, but I was just kicked out the room lol and I have not yet played online, I have tried searching what pinging someone means in a games room, but again to no avail, am sure it will be somewhere in this forum, but where exactly do I go to read about all the necessary information that I need to equip myself as so to know 'exactly' what to do when inside a games room, without the hassle of being called an idiot and being kicked out to lol.

But all in all thank you to the high heavens for your brilliant feedback :salute: