Black sky (GWX)
 

I installed GWX on a fresh install of SHIII patched to 1.4b, on a newly formatted HDD. I installed the latest version of SHIII Commander after I had installed GWX.
I am running it through an ATI 9800 pro on an Asrock K7VT4A pro Mb, Sempron 3000+ CPU, with 1.5 Gb memory on a SATA 1.5 HDD.
Everything else, apart from the sky looks great and runs much more smoothly than it did with SHIII+GW. Unfortunately the sky, despite it being mid afternoon is completely black. Have I somehow botched the installation or is there something I need to alter or install to make the sky render as it should.

I had this happen with the "old" GW 1.1a. I changed from 8km to 16km (or vice versa) and it fixed it.

Chuck

BTW what vid card are you running? Just curious.

Chuck

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with Omega drivers.

I use an X850XT and remember now that I was running the Omega's when I had the problem as well.

May want to try the stock drivers again and/or change the atmosphere.

Chuck

Thanks, I hadn't installed the 16K mod properly. Now I have nice blue skys and dark at night as they should be :D

black sky
 

I am also getting the black sky .

Can someone explain in detail what they did to fix it .

What do you mean loaded the 16km incorrectly .

Thanks

GWX comes with both the JGSME Mod Enabler by JScones and an optional 16 km atmosphere mod.

Use JGSME to enable the included 16km mod. Easy as pie.

I do not have it installed and night time is just fine on my machine. what exactly does the 16km mod do anyway?

black sky
 

I did and do have the 16k mod enabled through JSGME and still get the black sky .

Thanks for your reply .

Sounds like a buggered scene.dat issue :hmm:

It DOUBLES the visible distance of objects in-game... and pretty much doubles the load on your CPU as well. Not recommended for low to middle-end PC's.

That is how I understand it from the manual. :up: All is good with the original install so I do not need this!

True... which is why we've made it an optional mod for GWX. :D

Try disabling it and then re-enabling it. If that doesn't work... re-run the GWX .exe to restore it to default 8km.

Did you install any other mods?