Some Questions
 

Does anyone know for sure if;

1) Does boat speed have anything to do with the actual recharging of the batteries?

2) Same as above for replentishment of the Co2?

3) Would hugging the bottom (shallow...20-40m depth) engines off/silent running help to "NOT" be detected?

4) Just wondering, as night comes on I get splashes of colors water & skyline. looks like a water painting.
I have an ati X1900XT & all my other games colors are just fine. I doesn't bug me, but thought I would try & adjust it out, but won't bother if others have it also.

5) Just what benifit would I get from trying to download & install the GWX mod?

6) What are the (not so nice) things about the mod? I have read that the water takes a turn for the worst with gwx. I like the clear water to see what is going on under the water. That is part of the gaming fun for me...Just to be able to see..

1) No

2) No

3) Hm not really, if you get detected at 20 to 40m, you are pretty dead no matter what you do!

4) Nvidia card here - sorry. but make sure your drivers are upto date at http://ati.amd.com/

5) You will have about twice as much game content as you do now. Play with with GWX for a week and you will wonder how you ever played SH3 without it. :rock: (Im not going in to any detail as this forum is already rich with info on GWX!) ;)

6) The only bad thing about it -is the long load times - (but its worth the wait), you need another tool called SH3 comander which you can use with GWX, You will love it, this tool will allow you to set the water in GWX to be as clear as you like - but it also does a great deal more than that!. :)
Download it here: http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/software/products.html

1) speed will not affect battery charging, actually the batteries recharge when you're on the surface , even out of fuel. :rotfl:

3 Just stay out of shallow water at 20-40 meters you're dead meat.

yeah make sure to stay our of shallow water.

If you go to the (F2) Control room after surfacing while charging batteries, you can see that one engine is propelling the u-boat - and responding to your speed commands - while the other runs at constant speed to recharge the battery. Confused how it recharges without any fuel though...

Thanks for the good answers.
Its kinda hard to stay out of shallow water when your operating the type IID boat in the North Sea along the west coast of the England/Scotland.

When I pick up sound of what I preceive to be a Warship, I just get out of their way. I don't attack fishing boats, Trawlers or armed escorts because while I would be trying to sink them with this puny, POS pop pop gun they would be calling in air cover to sink my little boat. I haven't been depth charged yet, but I know that my day is coming. the odds get worse with every patrol & I'm in the middle of Patrol #9 now. There is deep water over next to Norway, but not much traffic that I have seen. I haven't been sent to the Norway coast as yet. I do go home that way & have made two or three sinkings, however it showed on the score card that they were neutral...even though their flags were British!

Ask far as that GWX...man I am so shy of doing mods. Every da*ned time I install a mod I screw up the install & end up having to uninstall & reinstall everything from the beginning.
Maybe after I get killed & have to start over again anyway I'll look iinto it. I just hate downloading & installing stuff. I always screw it up...guaranteed!

Well, GWX is very easy to install!
Like any other progam you just double click on seteup.exe and click next, next, next, finnish. -Thats about it :p
If you need any help, you know where we are.

If I can install GWX then I'm sure you can,it's easy and I'm a complete numpty when it comes to puters,I'am to computers what Stephen hawking is to basketball;)It is without doubt the dogs when it comes to supermods:up:it is awesome:rock:download it now:yep:OH.......and SH3 Commander,another awesome mod that just makes things more personel,more involving;)

All response as in JU_88 are 100% :up:

To install:
1. Uninstall SH3 via Windows' "Add/Remove programs"
2. Open Windows Explorer and:
- *delete* the folder where you had installed SH3
- *delete* the \My Documents\SH3 folder
3. Reinstall SH3
4. If your SH3 did not come with patch v1.4b already included, install patch v1.4b. Ensure you install the patch that corresponds to your copy of SH3 (Download/DVD/EMEA/US)
5. OPTIONAL: Copy and paste this "clean" install as a backup to avoid the need to follow steps 1-3 if your game becomes corrupt in future
6.Download into the SAME folder GWX.exe and the five .bin files. While there grab the v1.03 patch
7. Run GWX.exe and follow the installation prompts
8. Run GWX103.exe and follow the installation prompts
9. SH3 COMMANDER USERS: Download the GWX 1.02+ Cfg files for SH3 Commander and unzip the contents DIRECTLY into your SH3 Commander\Cfg folder.

Hey jimbuna, thanks for the install procedures.

reference #'s 5...Can I just copy & paste the install into my external hard drive & bring it back from there if needed?

#6...Do you mean that I just download the GWX files & patch into the main folder of SHIII & then run the install from there?

Ja, you will love GWX -- and it's certainly worth losing your present career for -- and worth re-installing SH3 for (to be on the safe side) -- ABSOLUTELY! :up:

Mach's gut!

O.K., here is what I dl'ed.
GWX103.exe
GWX 3.bin
GWX102cfg4sh3cmdr
GWX manual_EN.pdf
SH3cmdr27.exe
I haven't tiome to dl all those bin files at this time. do I need tham or are they just candy?
I couldn't find any 103 patch or were you referring to the manual?

Is this all what I need or is there something else that I missed?

You need
GWX.exe 781 kb
GWX-1.bin 159 MB
GWX-2.bin 160 MB
GWX-3.bin 160 MB
GWX-4.bin 160 MB
GWX-5.bin 151 MB
for the base install and then
GWX103.exe 82 MB
to get GWX up to date.

Do not try to install GWX until you have all 5 .bin files and the GWX.exe file, all in the same folder.

Go to my sig and look in the GWX section....you want what Lzs von swe has posted plus the SH3Commander cfg file if you intend using Commander :up:

O.K., I have all of the files that LZS Von Swe said to get...Thank you LZ...

As far as the Commander. do I really need it? I mean, with GWX I'll be totally in the dark until I learn it just by itself. I really have no idea what I would need commander for. I don't do a lot of extra stuff in these games. Heck, I have enough problem keeping my head above water with just the standard game. To much stuff just confuses me more..lol

With this GWX will I still be able to totally forget my crew..I have them all at (0) in the config files. I don't want to screw with them. or do lthat fancy trig math manually either.

Will I still be able to keep my type IID boat & crew out of wilhelmshaven or do I have to start at zero all over again. Man, I got a whole box full of medals, one given to me by der furhers dog for screwing up but making it back home anyway.....lol..

I have :

GWX102cfg4SH3Cmdr.zip and SH3Cmdr27.exe... Are these the ones that I would need if I do need the commander?