Major bugs in GWX 3.0
 

I just recently started playing SH3 with GWX 3.0 mod installed, and I have found two major bugs, not sure if they have been mentioned before.

First is that it's impossible to get into certain British ports, such as Portsmouth. There is only one narrow passage way into the port from the south, and its depth level is only 4 m, impossible for a sub to get through. Although ironically, I found 2 subs and an auxillary cruiser docked inside the port, so I have absolutely no idea how they got in.

And when you get near Strampshire (can't remember the exact spelling, but the port directly west of Portsmouth), within roughly 30 km from it, the game will just crash, every, single, time. Does this happen to anyone else?

Second is that enemy ships' AI do not recognize certain land masses, for example a small island about 5-6 km in length, and will run into them and get stuck on them. I have seen it multiple times near Scapa Flow, gave me quite a bit of easy kills.


I wonder are there any solutions to these bugs?

Thanks in advance.

I will simply/cordially say THERE ARE NO MAJOR BUGS IN GWX3.0

Furthermore what you are describing are not as a result of GWX3.0

Others may come along shortly to explain the aforementioned phenomena but in the meantime try using the search function it can be of great help.

To post that you have found some Major Bugs in GWX3.0 and the go on to tell of these two small discrepancy's is stupid. :timeout:
how can you say these are Caused by GWX3.0 the crashing of your computer can be the result of many things, graphics card, ram size, processor speed, other Mods. And as for AI units running aground that is a stock game problem. as they also run in to and shoot each other when trying to get at you.
as for Portsmouth having a shallow entrance I cannot comment on.

WTF, I have time to spare.:)

Harbour entrance depth:

When striving for realism (in as far as possible within game constraints) GWX focused on the RL activities of the majority of UBoat operations. This obviously focuses on the Atlantic, North Sea, Pacific, Med and Indian Ocean theaters, not the unhistorical aspects of harbour raiding. While it is possible to alter the sea floor depth using a terrain tool, it was considered unnecessary as all UBoat commanders knew that raiding was a coffin nail.

As for the traffic you found and without checking the campaign files, I would suggest that, while they are sinkable, they are only eye candy. They will only spawn as docked items. Note that Stock SH3 had significantly less harbours and nearly no harbour traffic.

CTD while approaching Strampshire (sp):

Possibly a bug within GWX but more likely a carry over from previous file sets. Basically the game is trying to load/justify a 3D object and it can't. As development of GWX has ceased, I suggest staying away form this harbour.

Dumb ass AI crashing into stuff!:

Ah, stock bug with no fix. The AI sensors have X Ray vision in that they can see through, what we would consider, solid mass. Land included as well as the seabed. There is no fix for this as it's hardcoded and untouchable for us. Bottom line, AI vessels will take the most direct route to any contact.

Which port are you talking about? If you can let us know then we can do some testing to see if we're also having problems or whether it's unique to your system. We'll also need a fairly precise location for where you suffer the CTD. My system sometimes crashes when I hit a mine at high TC. It's a fault caused by my computer specs rather than any of the mods I've got installed and, although annoying, I've learned to live with it.

We'll also need the date that you're suffering the CTD, as some problems are time/date specific.

With a little more info we can do some more investigation and try and help you out.

Ever since I posted in this thread it has done nothing but rain in Hampshire I put this down to GWX3.0 allowing days and days of rain in SH3.
So I will uninstall your mod straight away as I am sure the rain will stop. and don't try telling me about the bad weather fix. as I have tried this and still it is raining as my poor cat has found out and has had to come back in to the house.
I think this is disgraceful of you the GWX team for not foreseeing these events.


sorry just a little light harted humour :haha:

Heheh - thats nothing mate.
its raining now out side my window here in London, and its forcasted to rain for the rest of the week.
BLOODY GWX!!! :D

Well i suppose i will blame GWX for raining in Leeds ;)

it is already well know that going anywhere there are a large amounts of AI units to generate can cause your game to CTD.
Dunkirk is one for sure as not only Mines but also a large amount of shipping to generate can CTD the game. when I used my old rig I could not go anywhere near Dunkirk but with the new machine I can get in there and fight.
Also approaching a large convoy also CTD my game with my old system.
so you could say it was because of GWX as it generated more AI units in that area then the Stock game but the truth is my machine could not handle all that information simply as that.

See now my post are in two diffrent colours :hmmm:

Edit.. Wow thats was strange

Wow look at that my old system specks

[quote=SeaWolf U-57;1212373]it is already well know that going anywhere there are a large amounts of AI units to generate can cause your game to CTD.
Dunkirk is one for sure as not only Mines but also a large amount of shipping to generate can CTD the game. when I used my old rig I could not go anywhere near Dunkirk but with the new machine I can get in there and fight.
Also approaching a large convoy also CTD my game with my old system.
so you could say it was because of GWX as it generated more AI units in that area then the Stock game but the truth is my machine could not handle all that information simply as that.

Hello :O:

Only port i could think of that even came close to whart you typed was southampton, just checked it out, no crashes or problems of any kind. In fact its a port in name only, there are no 3d docks or ships present.

If this is the port you were referring to i can see no reason for a ctd, although there did appear to be quite a lot of land units on the shore so perhaps if you have low system ram <1Gb this could cause issues loading all those building/tree models.

try adding two more Gb's of Ram and see the diffrence

I will concede that SH3 (in whatever variant) seems to have some hissy fits with different hardware. Perhaps it is flaky coding, who knows?

In as far as GWX stability and load testing goes I'll throw my old rig into the mix. P4 3.2Ghz, Ati 800 Pro and 1GB Ram (this system will run GWX at full spec). This rig was used for GWX development and internal testing and I NEVER had a CTD that was not of my own making. Yes, that includes the D-Day Landings (probably the most load intensive part of GWX).

My system is running Windows 7 64Bit version
it has a due core processor
it has 8Gb of DDR3 ram.
1 250Gb Sata version 3 hard drive
and a GF 9800 GT graphics card
it is the specs you have upgraded I did not tell a lie