A sidenote. Just wanted to say thanks to Juan.
I am now running Realistic contacts for SH3 (retaining the sub contact icon) and absolutely LOVE the game experience. Has really made things more dramatic for sure.
Also put MEPs v5 on my current build, dropping SH5 water for SH3 (16k) which was an improvement over stock and MEPs v5 runs fine. My machine is lower performance than yours.
That 20k environment of MEPs v5 and setting up a search pattern in front of not all that exact contact reports has made for a lot of fun.
Regards,