My opinions on GW and NYGTW
 

Both are good but I discovered something fundamental wrong with both mods.

Grey Wolves is too expansive with the graphics that even the PCs with top notch graphic cards can't run SH3 without slight lag after it initializing a mission or a career mission. I have a new Dell XPS 400 with a state-of-art graphic card.
On my old 2002 Gateway PC, the graphic card was burned out literally after playing SH3 with Grey Wolves.
On the other side of the spectrum, it is the NYGTW mod which runs perfectly. Its problem is too little harbor traffic and non-existant air traffic in ports.

I propose that modders create a supermod which is a sort of hybrid of the two mods, a supermod that isn't an overly excess of graphics and keeping the NYGTW games system but adding some of the cosmetic appealing asspects of GW. I'm serious here, guys. Work with each other. There is not any reason that the NYGTW team and The GW team can figure something out.

Meanhile, I am strongly considering going back to The Real U-Boat 1.45 mod.


JayW.

Well, my pc isn't THAT top notch, and I play GW without major slowdowns:

Athlon 64 3000+
1.5GB RAM DDR
GeForce 6600 256MB

A hybrid mod wouldn't appeal to me, but some may like it.

Mycomputer is:
3.00GHz processor
2.00GB ram
128 graphics card
256 sound card

I play with stock game with 1.4 patch and GW, I have had to stop playing because the frame rate jumps between 120 and 20 in all stations causeing the game to be very choppy. have tryed everything possble to fix it but can't seem to do it.
any sergustions?

I have no problem running GW so must assume what Dell calls state of the art I call obsolete.
What card is in the Dell?
Also, RAM plays a big role in SH3 and in GW I suggest 2 GB DDR RAM for the harbors to run good.
Another thing to remember is what else you have running on your PC. I kept my old PC for email, photos, music files etc and run my 64 bit for my newer games so very little other crap that slows down games is running on it.
I am not trying to trash your system but I often hear people say they have it all goin on to find they are not running much.
A 256 VC does not mean much if the core is at 250 or the interface memory is 128 and it has 4 pipes. Another 256MB VC can have 16 pipes 600 core with 256MB interface memory and guess what, it runs much better. There is a difference in what is marketed as "State of the Art" and what really is.

That siad there are things you can do to help this. Open the SCR in mission editor (first make a back up copy). If you are like me you only use a few harbors to work from. You can look at those areas and either eliminate things or just move them somewhere away from your harbor to reduce the items slowing down the game.
You can redirect the bombers or reduce their numbers which will help a lot as their effects are taxing. Save it and try it out. With a back up ready to save you from any mistake you can tweak your harbors to suit your system.
I have my GW heavily modded as I like 90 percent but find many things lacking. That is my opinion and I have modded to suit that and not asked them to make everyone elses GW the way I think it should be.

Wulfmann

my rig- 3.2ghz
2gig ram
x700 256 card.

stormy weather kills my machine if i use GW. seriously in fine weather i get about 50fps on bridge view, middle of a large storm closer to 7 or 8.

What´s the exact type? You can find out by running dxdiag (Start/Run, dxdiag), look for the name in the "Anzeige" tab.

Also known as the "Display" tab. :-j

zz

I have a Dell XPS-400.
Dell XPS DXP051
Intell (R)
Pentium (R) D CPU 2.080 GHz
2.79 GHZ. 1.00 GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension.

The showdown happens when I go up to the bridge for the first time. As I turn around it jumps a lot but on the 2nd rotation, it works fine.

JayW.

My computer is also a dell. It's a dimension 9151
my frame rate is always jumping between 20 and 120 in harbour and out at sea its just too jumpy to play.

But after the initital look-around on the bridge, the frame rate was perfect


Jay W.

You should do that, the X300SE is a very slow card.

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or find a way of moving my music.

What music? The gramophone music for SH3?

Gizmoe, My music is my song itunes i have nearly 2000 songs on there about 5Gb.
if i was to update my graphics card which one do you recomend? And how much would it cost?

That doesn´t influence your system as long as you don´t play the music while playing SH3.

How much do you want to spend?

No, MC, the music is not running at the time the game is. Anti-Virus, and other programs that run in the background are big game killers. Many programs are added running by MS and by spyware that you may not even know about.
However, if the HD is full another HD to put most stored things is a good idea allowing the C-Drive to have the programs alone to run.
Defragging may also help

The x300 VC, is weak, no offense and not even close to state of the art. Being it is an X300 that means it is PCIex???? or AGP. (I never look at x300 specs but only find PCIexp so assume))
I would seriously upgrade the VC. Because of the flood of new cards the prices have dropped a great deal on VCs. You can get an X800 PCIex for around $100.00 USD which is half what they were a year ago.
Saying you have 2GB of RAM is not enough. What type of RAM is it (DDR PC3200, PC2700, PC 2100 or PC133 or PC100)
The X300 is 128MB memory with 64MB of interface memory, 325 core speed and 400 corclock with 4 pixel pipelines. Basically that is your bottleneck. You need a better card to run SH3 even at stock to run it right, IMO

Here is a basic X800 GTO at Newegg for $89.00 plus shipping
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814131007
(I realize you are not in the USA but as an idea) It has 256 memory and interface, 12 pixel pipelines and a core clock of 400 (easily overclocked with the easy to use ATI tool, I would bet at least 500 core) and 980 memory clock speed (Which I would bet easily OCed to 1100)
This would have you cheering.
Mind you, there will always be areas where too much happens in SH3 and slows down like when 2 tankers are buring in the same view or you up your TC to 2048 and you get near a convoy but those areas are also much improved with a better balance in the system which for you means a better VC, IMO
I do not recommend a super VC now (X1900 or 7900) because they will all be obsolete in a year or so and an X800 will run it well enough until the new MS OS and DX10 is released when, no matter what one has now, all our state of the art will be old hat then!

Wulfmann

Around 150-200€. Does your computer have AGP or PCI-Express?