Rik,
I decided to detail a bit more of the testing that I did, just in case you find something interesting about it.
I know your mod patches SH3.exe just like the h.sie hard-coded patches do. When I went to the Stiebler Weather thread and read the instructions, I decided to try all the different combinations listed there, but with your patched exe, just to see what happens. Stiebler has two version of his EnvSim.act, one for the basic installation and one for people who are using the h.sie "hardware fix." I don't know if I'm using that or not, but my testing had the same results with whichever EnvSim.act that I used.
In all cases, the program loaded, then my saved game loaded, then I got the "To the U-boat..." message on the screen, and then it locked up. Alt-tabbing to the desktop didn't fully work, but I could see a message box that there was a missing weather code with a prompt to click OK to abort the moon mod. I couldn't click on it because my system was degrading... I think it was spawning more error messages. I did a ctrl-alt-del to bring up the shut-down menu and clicked on Sign Off to log me out back to the sign-in screen without doing a full reboot.
After doing this, I restored my original SH3.exe and followed the Stiebler instructions without the moon mod patch and mods installed. Everything launched just fine and I was able to recreate the 14K sightings by my Watch Officer. I think I did this with both Stiebler EnvSim.act files and got the same results.
At this point, I figured that if both your moon mod and the original Stiebler weather mod were giving me the same ship sighting behaviors, I'd go back to your moon mod. This is where I am at right now.
One question, though...
In my testing, Stiebler says that in order to use his EnvSim.act, I have to patch the SH3.exe to turn off the h.sie weather fix and then put his EnvSim.act in my mods stack, which I did. I *think* you said that with your moon mod it doesn't matter if this switch is on or off as long as your "SH5-Moon Mod Optional - Stiebler's Wheather fix" is in the mods stack after all the other Moon Mods. However, your instructions say to turn the h.sie weather fix ON to use your Stiebler weather mod.
Do I have this correct? Are you saying that the h.sie weather mod has to be ON to use your Stiebler weather fix when Stiebler says it has to be OFF to use his EnvSim.act in native mode? Is there something that you added to the file that requires the h.sie switch to be turned on that is different from the native Stiebler EnvSim.act?
Just wondering what the "true" configurations needs to be to use your Moon Mod properly...
Thanks,
John
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