Hello everybody! (Including a question)
 

Hello everybody here! I am your newest visitor and now mamber :)

I was browsing your fine forums since 2 days to look for some mods. Since I was planning to reinstall Silent Hunter III (I´ve never managed to REALLY play it... Since all these years :( ) I thought about adding a few mods here and there. Alot of you guys have created awesome stuff and this will make the game even better.

The only mod I have tried was GWX 2.6 back in the day when I planned to finaly begin my first campagin in Silent Hunter III. Since I had to abort the.... 7th try? I took a longer break from mods in general.

But hell, THIS time I will start and finish, all the way from 1939 to 1945 :p Heavily motivated via a Lets Play of one of your fellow members (Frontier359) I was being sent here to aquire some of the mods he was using. I already got the newest version of the GWX 3.0 Gold (Is this the latest version?) mod.

Since I dont plan to bore you any longer with my blabberish... :p

My question is: Will I have significant problems with a 16:9 widescreen (Resolution 1360 x 768)? I heard a few romours here and there.... To be honest, I am quite scared. Well, tomorrow is the day and I will eventually find out before anyone is able to reply :)

Nicest greetings and a big ahoy!

WELCOME ABOARD! :sunny:

I've been playing SH3 for almost seven years, and have never finished a career. I always stop and start over every time some cool new mod comes along. Now I'll never finish the war in one stop because I use the 'Realistic Career Length' function of SH3 Commander. No captain ever did more that six to eight patrols before being promoted.

Since you asked, GWX3 is a good overall supermod, combining graphics and gameplay improvements. The perfect companion is SH3 Commander, which does for your career what the supermods do for the game itself.

Your widescreen monitor should pose no problems. What happens is that the game stretches to the corners and there is some distortion. Some like the mods that correct that, but I just got used to it and ignore it. My resolution is set to 1440 x 900.

On my widescreen I get the blank vertical bars on both sides. I'd rather suffer with that than get a headache from a warped perspective. Like Steve, I also use the realistic career length in SH3 Commander. It adds pucker factor to the game, for I never know which patrol will be my last. I've had careers as short as five patrols. It rather forces you to make the most of your opportunities. I begin in 1939 with a fresh captain and green crew. I play until that captain is KIA or retired, at which point I begin a new career in the month and year where the previous career ended. That way I get to experience the rising and falling fortunes of war. By 1943, or even sooner, you realize you can no longer treat the enemy with contempt, if you even dare to in GWX.

Welcome aboard to the best Sim and forum ever. No major problems with wide screen. Recommend you use SHIII Commander and install all mods by JSGM. Installing additional mods may crash you until you get the proper load sequence on them. It is trial and error with mods but they are all great. Congrats to our modders.

:yeah:

ive gone through 1 complete carrer, but now I use the realistic carrer lenght with SH3 Commander. Anyway I recomend deffently getting the commander, then GWX 3.0 Gold, I use the lifeboat mod, and the deck gun in all weather mod, mostly because its a bit unrealistic, oh I can use the deck gun because its raining, what ever will I do! Send bernhard out there!

Welcome Aboard http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...es/welcome.gif

Welcome to this nest of ruffians and enjoy your game :salute::salute::salute:

Welcome aboard :salute:

If you use Commander (which I wholeheartedly recommend you do) and GWX (3 - it is that latest, and last) then you'll also need the GWX3_SH3Commander_CFGFiles.exe file available from Jimbuna's link in his signature.

I'm suprised it's not already been mentioned! :o

I wish you the best of luck getting to 1945. :up:

Welcome aboard Avenger176, have fun, make friends and enjoy your stay. I'm guessing you spotted Frontier's youtube vids, nice vids, I'm subscribed myself :D Have to echo Steve's remarks, I too have never completed a career, but it's a hell of a sleigh ride trying :haha:

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

Welcome aboard!

I have never made it through the war alive, so good luck!

You may very well have problems in widescreen!

For me (and I forget my resolution now), when I used the widescreen mod I had two problems, one major, one minor:

The major problem:
When you click inside the periscope or UZO view to turn the scope, when you then click again to exit the scope the cursor re-appears directly over the torpedo fire button and fires whatever tube is currently selected!!!

The only fix for this is to install a mod, such as some of the TDC mods that re-locates the fire button. Or change to another, sub-optimal resolution.

The minor problem:
Attempting to do a screen capture causes a crash to desktop.

Steve

So now you have people shooting the deck gun when waves are washing clear over the bridge. Much more realistic. :O:

Hello guys!

Wow, thanks for the warm welcome, surely havent expected that! Thanks for the information, too!

Since I have little to no experience with Silent Hunter III and mods I came here to seek answers to my silly questions :) I honestly havent expected that much activity! What I got out of your kind suggestions is the following: I will certainly get

- SH3 Commander (I have no idea what it really does but I will find out in a few minutes :p)

- GWX 3.0 Gold (Since its simply stunning and pure awesomeness in one go!)

- The amazing extended interior mod v 1.0 (I was blown away when I saw this)

I have no idea what else to get. I was specifically looking for the alternate GUI (Is that how you call it?) Frontier is using in his videos. Since I am planning to play on the highest possible realism settings (God help us all lol) I want to be starting out as complete as I can. However, no luck so far... My search will continue! As soon as I have all these mods I will probably start.

Another question came to my mind! Right, so I am a total newbie and I am no experencied player by all means. I still havent figured out how to manually hit a target with a torpedo but I will work on that with the help of a few guides here. My question is, are some of you still having multiplayer games in SH3? If thats the case, I would be more than happy to meet up with you as soon as I am actually able to play lol. Wouldnt be too much fun if I am not even able to hit the Titanic with a torpedo, right? :)

Once again, thanks for the great welcome in your forums!

Regards,

Avenger

If you have a good spec PC I'd recommend the Merchant Fleet Mod - lots more juicy targets :yeah:

Other mods, Lifeboat and Debris, modified searchlights, no continuous ship spotted. :yep:

Oh, and skins, lots of skins, Fubar's in particular :up:

Take a peek here http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=170090

As for multiplayer, I don't think there is a huge online community, you could try PMing PaulH513 and see if he still goes online.

Oh great! I was looking for these 2 (Lifeboat and Debris, modified searchlights) but couldnt remember the exact names... Hah! Excellent, my folder should be almost complete! Now just to find that modified UI or GUI or whatever you call it :p

Edit: Thanks for linking me to that thread Herr-Berbunch. Amazing what the modders have done! Simply stunning. I cant wait to get started! And I also found the modified GUI thanks to your link, yay :D

To get a feel for what's out there check out this thread.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=170090