Horrible graphics glitch with navmap compass rose
 

Hi all! New here, so please don't lynch me if this happens to be a newb question...

I've been playing SHIII with GWX 2.0 for a couple of weeks and I'm totally hooked with this great game (and a great mod too!). However, I have some awful graphics glitches, probably because my olde tyme laptop graphics card (Geforce4 440 Go) doesn't support pixel shading. Here's something I have to live with:

-Psychedelic greenish-purple colors on crewmembers
-Ship flags usually not showing
-Ship and torpedo wakes are white rectangles
-On shallow waters the water is brown
-The GWX u-boat compass rose that shows on small-scale (i.e. showing ship-shaped icons) nav maps is a grey rectangle covering everything beneath it

Now, I can live with almost all of this (I just imagine that my sub commander has a habit of eating strange mushrooms while on patrol...) but the compass rose thing is pretty annoying, since it effectively prevents me from using the small-scale map sizes. Is there a way to remove it - or fix this situation some other way? I do have the latest graphics drivers installed.

Welcome to Subsim.:up:

IIRC (cos doing this from memory) you can remove the Compass/Bearing Overlay by going into the Player Sub folders inside the main SH3 program folder (example \data\Submarine\NSS_Uboat7b) and backup/delete the TGA called NSS_Uboat7b_shp.tga.

This is the overlay file and you will need to do the same for all the player boats.

Best to backup/save them elsewhere, just incase.:up:

Putting up with all that just to play sh3, now thats dedication!
Bravo and welcome to the forum:up: :up:

Any chance of a screenshot??

Removing that tga seems to have done the trick for the compass rose. It does show a "tga shape not found" text, but heck, I'm happy with that. So thank you.

Here's a screenshot from the command room.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3018/...53db482c_o.jpg

"Dude... Whoa... This stuff is awesome!"

Looks like you got the "mood lighting" upgrade last time in port.:cool:

woohoo everyone to the disco sub....bernard is buying.....ladies from the establishments galore!!!!