Guys, please help those of us who are attempting to support you by posting your questions ONLY ONCE. There is no need to post the same q all over the place as all that results in is duplicate responses, taking the guys trying to support you away from supporting others, in addition to clogging up the forums.

Thanks for your understanding!

I have no mods enabled and rolled back SH3commander but still get the "key gwx files missing" message. :(

Could someone possibly send me a clean basic.cfg and sh3.exe per email to give it another try?

My email addy is Warmonger@gmx.net

Thanks in advance.

Same problem and need here. sokkep@gmail.com

I thank everybody in advance too!

Yarrr!

+P

Hi Guys,

The patcher is not checking the sh3.exe file.:yep:

As for the Basic.cfg, if you get a copy of this file all you are succeeding in doing is fooling the installer. It is more than likely that you will experience problems further down the way.

Have you read this entire thread? Questions have been answered before.:yep:

Ok, problem solved (I hope).

Danlisa, I just recently saw your download link to the basic.cfg and commands.cfg files, must have somehow overlooked them...:oops:

Anyway, install worked now, and off we are again. :arrgh!:

Thanks, for the patch, works a treat and no install issues. This SHIII is just to addicting I have been up till midnight "Kaleuning" in my Type II boat. I am glad to have discovered SHIII and even more so to be utilizing GWX! Thanks!:up:

Wilcke

I did all of this, even pasted all the mods to another folder. Deleted all the mods in the folder. Then installed 1.02, there was a CTD using a previous career (pre-1.02). However, started a new career and all was well. It must have been something in the old career.

As part of the process I did have an intial problem with random weather, tried user defined and all was fine. Have not had the time to go back again and try random weather through SHWeather. Will do this later.

Anyway, some great suggestions in this thread, as usual GWX rocks:up:

My feeling is that you had the CTD because your career was not a GWX one. Did you start it in GW or any other mod? Usually if this happens there is a high chance of CTD as GWX has changed the flotilla and bases.

No it was a GWX one, I just started it a few days ago. When 1.02 came out I went back to port ( with half my backside ripped off :damn: ), got out of the game and went through the install process with the new update.

Your career sounds like it is a casualty of the patch changes. From the patch 1.02 release post (I have bolded the relevant text):

I was looking for a way to add some messages to the game so when you sent a report to BDU you don't just get the "Keep Up the good work" only and I noticed a file called "new messages only english.txt". I opened it and on top it says "just copy and paste that on your favorite messages file". Should this be appended on "messages_en.txt"? And if yes only when in port between patrols or will it work mid-patrol? I could try the old "try and see" thing but I had quite a few CTD the last couple of days testing the usual assortment of mods and I really like to end this "haunted" 5th patrol of mine without another one :D
BTW SH3 + dual monitors = very often CTD and a significant drop in FPS so anyone wanting to try that I would advice against it.
Keep up the good work :up:

The BdU responses are not part of the messages file that you are looking at. BdU's responses are contained in the **_menu.txt file and are accordingly, by default, the same, everytime.

If you want to randomly vary them, you need to use SH3Cmdr and add the variations to the "Randomised events.cfg" file (there's pervious posts here covering how to do this). You still won't get different messages *during* a patrol (thanks to an SH3 limitation), but you will get different messages after each SH3 reload.

Re your CTD's, it sounds like you have left over modded files in your installation. In http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=105853 I posted what I think is the most efficient way to run SH3 with GWX. You may like to try it.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ight=text+mods

Another one, again help from Jscones:up:

No big deal, I had just started it. Started another career in 42' out of Lorient with an IXC, first time I was bombed coming out of the bay, intense stuff:up::up:

Will do thanks!
I 've learned my lesson now... I've made two installs (one clean + GWX + some mods I know to work properly and one to experiment). Also a big part of my crashes were due to the fact of the dual monitors I used (one to play and one browse subsim :D ). Unfortunately SH doesn't handle such a config very well.
Oh .. and what about the "new messages Englishg only.txt". For those messages to work must they be appended to "messages_en.txt"?
And sorry about so many questions . Hope I'm not too annoying :)

I have maged to install without difficulties...although it seems like my last patrol went away in my patrol history, but not the tonnage so that's good :88) (I was docked)

Any way I left st.Nazaire now and now I got this big circle shaped metal thing rotating on my beautiful VIIB bridge and I just want to throw it off...what is it?! :88)



Great job modders!

The big rotating Loop on your Bridge is your Radio Direction Finding Antenna, it was stowed a way before now BDU wants you to use it :D

Ok...so what use do I have of it?

What is the meaning of knowing that "oh the britts are transmitting something my way"...maybe that there is a convoy or something at my direction (if you would send from brittain) ? :88)

You dont use it its eye candy, really :)

Use of the Radio Direction Finder is automatic and represented abstractly by some of those contact icons that appear periodically on your F5 Nav Map. This is not new to GWX 1.02, only the physical representation of it on your bridge is new. If you don't like the way it looks, Ref (who created it in GWX) is planning to issue a mod to remove it within the next few days.