Older MOD questions from a new guy...

[YukonJack_AK]

Yup that's right - I'm a brand spanking FNG. Haven't been one of those in a LONG time. Ok - so I've been playing SH3 'vanilla' since the beginning of the year and decided to see if there were any bug fixes available and found SubSIM and you guys are GREAT! On to my question though - I am specifically looking for 2 older MOD that I cannot find anywhere... The Harbor traffic MOD and the Improved Convoys MOD! I've been all over the forums looking for links that work and I'm ready to just give up! Any help?

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard Kaleun YukonJack_AK

I'm afraid I no longer have the mods you refer to but I'm confident someone will be along shortly to help.

This is a great and friendly community you have joined

You might want to consider giving GWX a try some time

[UberTorpedo]

YukonJack_AK welcome aboard!!

I found those old mods on a dvd and uploaded them to my filefront site. Just click the link below my signature

I've never tried them. Hope they work ok.

[YukonJack_AK]

Thank you SOOO much UberTorpedo!!! The Harbor Traffic MOD is awsome! Just a question for anyone that might know... There is only 1 file between HT and IC that is the same - flags.dat... do you know if I can run both mods at the same time and if so, which flags.dat should I be using?

@jimbuna - I actually tried GWX2.1 and it had some probs on my sys... I've got a great sys AMD64x2, 3GB DDR2, Vista SP1, etc but still using the stock (read: crappy ) video card - a 128MB integrated NVidia GEForce 430. As it is, I play SH3 in windowed mode with LowRes textures... any suggestions on how I can get GWX running? (Other than the obvious "Go buy a new card")

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by YukonJack_AK

Thank you SOOO much UberTorpedo!!! The Harbor Traffic MOD is awsome! Just a question for anyone that might know... There is only 1 file between HT and IC that is the same - flags.dat... do you know if I can run both mods at the same time and if so, which flags.dat should I be using?

@jimbuna - I actually tried GWX2.1 and it had some probs on my sys... I've got a great sys AMD64x2, 3GB DDR2, Vista SP1, etc but still using the stock (read: crappy ) video card - a 128MB integrated NVidia GEForce 430. As it is, I play SH3 in windowed mode with LowRes textures... any suggestions on how I can get GWX running? (Other than the obvious "Go buy a new card")

Your right about the card, but I do know of a few people playing with a 128MB card.

Try reducing the graphics settings/particles density etc.

[Graf Paper]

It's been a long time but as I recall, the flags.dat in the Improved Convoys mod is the one you will want to have so enable that mod after Habor Traffic. I assume (and hope) you're using JSGME to add/remove mods from SH3.

I used to play SH3 1.4b with GWX 1.03 using an nVidia Geforce FX 5200 128MB card with little trouble. The main thing is to make sure your AA and AF are set no higher than 4x, then uncheck "High Quality Textures" and set "Particle Density" to no more than 60 in the game's Video Settings.

You're still likely to have lags and stuttering with big effects, such as a ship exploding, but there's not much to do about that. Also, avoid using too many "eye-candy" mods.

The Harbor Traffic mod may cause you problems due to all the extra shipping and activity that has to be rendered by your video card.

Good luck and sink 'em all, Herr kaleun!

I run an AMD Turion processor.
It's a fine chip except for some things.
I suspect the chip you run has the same faults with SH3.
SH3 was not programed for our type chips.
Hence? Half of the chip may not be working.
I'm pretty sure there is a setting that you can enable in Vista
to force the program to run on your chip.

I think that is your main bottle neck.
I run a 128 meg ATI card with little problems
It's the freacking Turion that kills me!

[JMV]

YukonJack_AK welcome to you

I've seen posted somewhere on this forum that The Harbor Traffic MOD is very greedy on the Frame Rate... JMV