Help! Game Paused!?
 

Im having the strangest problem...I prepared to leave on my 14th patrol today. the game loaded up as usual, then I got the usual "Initializing" screen...Then instead of seeing the normal starting viewpoint in the control room, I get a balck screen with "Game Paused". nothing I do, (hitting backspace, clicking the "P", or the "+") un-pauses the game.

Anyone have a fix!? This is insanity! :down:

Have you tried the "pause/break" key? Far right key on the F-row?

http://www.ntlworld.com/images/help/...properties.gif

Yes, tried that too. To no avail. :cry:

Go into My Documents/SH3/data/Cfg and open main with notepad and find this section.
[TIME COMPRESSION]
TimeStop=0
RealTime=1
LandProximity=32
CriticalDamage=1
CrewEfficiency=1
AirEnemyDetected=1
SoundEffects=2
CharacterAnim=4
EnemyDetected=4
RadioReport=8
Particles=8
PrayState=8
HunterState=32
3DRender=32
Maximum=2048

Make sure Real Time=1 and not Real Time=0

i found this file you mention above,....It doenst appear to have a "Time compression" section at all!:hmm:

Ok, look in SilentHunterIII\data\Cfg find Main in there and open it with notepad and check. It should be the second entry section there also. It might be that it didn't show in My Documents if you do not have a active career going at the time.

Ok, found that....but it appears normal....

[TIME COMPRESSION]
TimeStop=0
RealTime=1
LandProximity=4
CriticalDamage=1
CrewEfficiency=1
AirEnemyDetected=1
SoundEffects=2
CharacterAnim=4
EnemyDetected=8
RadioReport=8
Particles=8
PrayState=8
HunterState=32
3DRender=32
Maximum=1024

Good! Copy/Paste the Timecompression part to mydocuments/sh3/data/main.cfg,

Hum...Here is a copy of my Main cfg file from C:\My Documents\SH3\data\cfg, yours should look something similar to it.
[SETTINGS]
LoadingMovie=No
VoiceCommand=No
DisableMessages=Yes
EventCamera=Yes
TextsLanguage=0
VoicesLanguage=1
KeybLanguage=0

[TIME COMPRESSION]
TimeStop=0
RealTime=1
LandProximity=32
CriticalDamage=1
CrewEfficiency=1
AirEnemyDetected=1
SoundEffects=2
CharacterAnim=4
EnemyDetected=4
RadioReport=8
Particles=8
PrayState=8
HunterState=32
3DRender=32
Maximum=2048

[VIDEO]
Resolution=1024 x 800
DynamicShadows=No
FullScreen=Yes
Synchronized=No
ParticleDensity=100.000000
TextureResolutionHigh=Yes

[SOUND]
Music=Yes
VolumeGeneral=100
VolumeMusic=100
VolumeFx=100
VolumeSpeech=100

[PLAYER]
Name=Karl Müller
Rank=12
Experience=201495.515625
Renown=197583.265625
NrOff=5
Patrols=0
TorpedoesFired=0
TotalTonnage=100
SubmarineType=1
SubmarineVersion=0
SubmarineName=U-110
ConingTower=3
SubmarineEmblem=Yes
SubmarineEmblemIdx=0
NrPettyOff=14
NrSeamen=24
CurrentYear=1940
ShipsSunk=0
LastMission=data/SingleMissions/MaltaConvoy/MaltaConvoy.mis
M01=1
A01=6
A02=-100
S01=-100
RenownNavalAcademy=0.000000
Careers=1
S02=-100
S03=-100

[Ubi.Com]
ConnectURL=http://gsconnect.ubisoft.com/gsinit.php?user=%s&dp=%s
GameName=SILENTHUNTER3
Version=SH3PC1.0
GamePort=18000
ConfigFile=GSDownload.ini

does it needed to be pasted in that file in a specifi place? ot just anywhere is ok...

Here is mine.


[PLAYER]
SubmarineType=2
SubmarineVersion=1
CurrentYear=1942
ConingTower=10
M01=0
A01=6
A02=6
S01=-100
S02=-100
S03=-100
Name=The Fox
Rank=11
Experience=500.000000
Renown=2604.487305
RenownNavalAcademy=0.000000
NrOff=5
Patrols=0
ShipsSunk=0
TorpedoesFired=0
TotalTonnage=0
SubmarineName=
SubmarineEmblem=No
SubmarineEmblemIdx=-1
NrPettyOff=14
NrSeamen=26
LastMission=data\SingleMissions\English\XXI/XXI.mis
Careers=3

[SETTINGS]
LoadingMovie=No
VoiceCommand=No
EventCamera=No
TextsLanguage=0
VoicesLanguage=0
KeybLanguage=0

[SOUND]
Music=No
VolumeGeneral=100
VolumeMusic=100
VolumeFx=100
VolumeSpeech=100

[VIDEO]
DynamicShadows=No
FullScreen=Yes
Synchronized=No
ParticleDensity=100.000000
TextureResolutionHigh=Yes

See my last post for location. Gizzmoe beat me to it.:up:

Do what Gizzmoe said and just paste it in there somewhere or, put everything in the same order as the Main cfg in your SilentHunterIII\data\cfg file, that might be the better idea.

That did it! fixed! Much appreciated guys....

No my onlt wonder is how it happened in the first place....:hmm:

Might have been a bad game save from the last time it worked correctly. It has happened to others I've read before, that is how I knew where to look for the trouble. Glad you got it going again.:up: