I will do some optimisations of the dds files in OPEN HORIZONS II_New_Ships\data\Sea and send it to you .

Which are the new ships? I'll keep an eye out and see if my GPU does the same.

I don't think I've had a CTD with the new campaign. I'm getting an outrageous amount of tonnage in the first campaign, came across two unescorted convoys and went powering in with the deck gun. :D Second time came out with 53% hull (just now actually), convoy had a couple of armed merchants... :oops: dropped them sharpish but not before the first landed landed two lucky hits.

Also had the scariest Scapa Flow experience of any of the versions - I'm running Full now with the extra traffic. Light fog, 4am or so and I take my shots from as far away as possible, then power out at flank on the surface hoping to use the fog to my advantage. I'm out of the first main Southern pipe and heading for the deep water further Southeast, with one DD to my port side and a fishing boat to my starboard. The fishing boat got too close and must've alerted the DD as the searchlight suddenyl insta-locked me thousands of yards out of his vision zone. I dive to periscope and run at mid for a few minutes as the DD just sits there, then before I know it another 3 DDs have come out of the Southern entrance and are literally right on top of me - no rear sonar til November so I have the blind spot front and back!

Frantically call for silent running and they circle over me for three hours, actually scraping the conning tower at one point and setting the boat rolling from side to side... but no hull damage, just a scratch or two to the radio. But not a single DC, not one...! After maybe 4 hrs it's light and they've stopped dead, still pinging in a line formation and I bug the hell out slow & quiet like and change my trousers!

And the best bit... on my way out, 60km maybe from Scapa in the early evening and a Battleship, escorted by 6 DDs hoves into view. The air & waves are crystal clear, low moon and I give it a slow 4 torp spread, magnetic off and flank like hell away & North. Couple of mins later, the Battleship takes 3 out of 4 and goes down, while I'm far North and well clear of pursuit. :D:rock:

It's not all good though. I didn't pay attention to the date just now, and 100km out from Kiel I get the 'base moved to Wilhelmshaven' message! :damn: :har:

Temp. of 79C is not critical for NVIDIA. I run GTX 260 from PALLIT (not the best choice up to date), most time I have 76-80C even without additional ships. For the safety of video I also use Anilag at 35FPS limit and MSI Ub-r utility:salute:.

I ran into something small tonight. I am not sure if its fixable or just the AI doing their thing. I ran into a taskforce and was detected quickly. The cruisers were running over the escorts trying to DC me lol. Its going to be a long night/morning. First picture is date/time/location.

http://www6.picfront.org/picture/pXm...WN/thb/os4.jpg

http://www6.picfront.org/picture/lFB7fUcIWa/thb/os2.jpg

http://www6.picfront.org/picture/nFXZhDzvx/thb/os3.jpg

What a wonderful mess:haha::yeah:
I think IRAI for convoys/warship groups needs more improvement. Here it seems that cruisers that detected you were acting like single warships:hmmm:

By the way, those pour destroyers were accounted to your tonnage?

v1.0.0 of IRAI changes the behavior of the capitol ships. They no longer try to hunt you.

So what is the reason of game situation described above? To many ships or player's active maneuvering, may be?

EDIT: In SH3 I've faced the same situations of accidents between destroyers and merchants when the U-boat was actively maneuvering inside the convoy order:)

http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/1070/ship1.jpg
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2770/ship2h.jpg
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/189/ship3.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/2783/ship4.jpg
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6593/ship5.jpg
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/1214/ship6.jpg

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...but IRAI v1.0.0. is not yet released, right ? :hmmm:

TDW, when you have a Test Version from IRAI v1.0.0 that works with campaign, please send me to test !
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Best regards,
Magic:salute:

Think it's just too many ships and poor collision detection. I saw loads of it in my last run through the Mediterranean campaigns - at one point, due to other passing convoys being called in to hunt me (at least I assume that's what was happening) I had over 30 warships overhead trying to DC me. They must have destroyed at least 15 ships by collision before I managed to get out. One actually landed on my boat as I sat still hoping to lose them (only reload in that campaign lol)!

I'm not sure. I will check when I get back in game. I didn't see the red sink marks on my map though. I might have them turned off.

Very good sober:yeah:
my card is now running at 69C with new ships :up:

I will add a hotfix patch soon.
Ruby2000 found a problem with the first campaign.
Objective " North Western Approaches"
No map object.

This is the missing target map area
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/3587/linebnp.jpg

I did not get the tonnage for the cruisers killing the destroyers. Now its morning and they called in reinforcements. Looks like its going to be a long day.

http://www13.picfront.org/picture/iLeDp2J5l/thb/wow.jpghttp://www13.picfront.org/picture/Kd...L/thb/wow2.jpg

None of them are merchants :o

Forced me to the surface about 3 hours later. Ran out of compressed air. I could not shake them. Surfaced went high speed and scuttled by suicide. Crew and I are in life boat.
http://www13.picfront.org/picture/mHzMSNJW/thb/done.jpg

Check out my non merchant IRAI difficulty settings . Click on my sig link to see them .

Thanks sober! I remember seeing them before but didnt know if it made AI harder or easier. I will give them a try:up:


edit: Stupid question; where do I put these settings? There a cfg somewhere?