game stuck on paused !

[crabbit shaun]

hi all, newbie here, but been visiting for a while and playing sh3 for a while too. the problem is the game stuck on paused, i had the problem before when running the stock game but just used it as an excuse to upgrade to gwx 3 gold, credit where credits due lads spot on ! but now about 25 missions in and its done it again !!! any ideas ? its just the 1.4 patch and the gwx mod i am running. have tried sh4 but its just not the same, am more into the german side if you know what i mean have seen an add on u boat missions you can buy, is it any good ?

[Sailor Steve]

WELCOME ABOARD!

It's hard to tell just what your problem might be without more information. Are you doing anything in particular before it gets stuck?


As to SH4, yes, the U-Boat add-on is wonderful, but only with modded with Lurker's Operation Monsoon supermod. You get all the best gameplay a la SH3, and the maps include the KM grids right down to the 4-digit locations, as well as keeping the latitude and longitude coordinates. Lurker has done an outstanding job, and is still talking to people and upgrading it.

The only thing that keeps me playing SH3 is the harbor traffic scenes (which I really should learn how to do instead of just complaining about it) and all the things SH3 Commander provides.

I highly recommend it.

[HW3]

game stuck on paused

This is caused by a corruption of the main.cfg file in either the SH3 folder in My Documents or the main.cfg file in SilentHunterIII/data/Cfg. What usually happens is this section is missing in one of them.

[TIME COMPRESSION]
TimeStop=0
RealTime=1
LandProximity=128
CriticalDamage=1
CrewEfficiency=1
AirEnemyDetected=1
SoundEffects=2
CharacterAnim=4
EnemyDetected=8
RadioReport=8
Particles=32
PrayState=8
HunterState=32
3DRender=32
Maximum=1024

The fix is to copy the good one and paste it over/replace the bad one and save.

[crabbit shaun]

thanks for the advice lads, will try the fix just now, will also give sh4 a go with the u boat missions and the mod, but addicted to sh3 ! what does the commander mod add ?

[crabbit shaun]

sorry, meant to add that as soon as the mission loads it's happening i have lost a few missions now trying previous saves but to no avail . i was quite happy with the stock sh3 until i tried the gwx mod so might try a few more, what ones do you recommend ? the more realistic the better.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by crabbit shaun

what does the commander mod add ?

SH3 Commander is not a mod, but a tool, and possibly the most important one to play in SH3. It has its own icon on your desktop, and you load SH3 using it.

1) It allows you to make several adjustments with just a click of a button: deck-gun loading speed, wave height, time-compression changes, days spent in base and more.

2) It creates a unique career for your captain, giving you a birth date and place, a pre-uboat career and a postwar career, all based on the lives of real kaleuns.

3) It has a database of 42,000 names of uboatmen, divided into first and last names, so you have 1.7 billion possible names for your crew.

4) It creates realistic crew transfers, so you might lose one or two men after each patrol, and have them replaced. Or not.

5) I lets you award as many medals and promotions as you wish, rather than the one each in the stock game.

6) It gives appropriate and real ship names to each ship you sink, including the cargo it was carrying and how many crew were aboard, and how many killed.

7) It has an Officer's Club you can visit, to listen to the music and hear scuttlebutt about what's going on in the war.

8) It randomizes your gramophone tracks.

9) It has a 'Failure and Sabotage' function, so you can have breakdowns at sea. Of course this can be turned off, so you don't have to use it.

10) It allows for a multitude of randomizations, so you can have things like my own 'Loading Screens' mod, which puts up a different screen every time you load the game, and adds a bunch of different band marches, so each time you leave port they might be playing a different song.

11) You can also randomize your sub skins by date, so you might be sailing out in March 1943 and find a new paint job on your boat.

SH3 Commander is, to me, more important than any of the supermods. It's the one thing that keeps me playing SH3.

[crabbit shaun]

thanks guys, worked a treat . will try commander but am away the noo to catch u on the ops i lost ! many many thanks !

[[SJ]nailz]

shaun I used to ignore SH3 commander, then I tried it, and now I can't live without it.

Get it, use it, love it...

[Magic1111]

Originally Posted by [SJ]nailz

shaun I used to ignore SH3 commander, then I tried it, and now I can't live without it.

Get it, use it, love it...

Yes, I totally agree this ! I never play SH3 with GWX, WAC or LSH without starting and playing my career with SH3-Commander !

For me is SH3-Commander an absolutely "Must-Have" Tool !

Best regards,
Magic

[crabbit shaun]

i take it i would need to start again to use it ? sounds the part i must admit . do you just install it like the gwx using the 1.4 patch ? i have ordered the u boat missions for sh4 too so will need to try it as well. i never realised when i bought it that it was the other side so turned it off in disgust and havnt looked at it since . what side you gonna be in sh5 ?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by crabbit shaun

i take it i would need to start again to use it ?

No, not at all. You might want to though, after you see what it offers.

do you just install it like the gwx using the 1.4 patch ?

No. It installs as a separate tool inside its own folder. It creates its own desktop icon, and you click on it instead of SH3. This brings up its own screens, and you do all the stuff you want to do, then it has a button labelled "Start SH3", or something like that. It does the rest.

i have ordered the u boat missions for sh4 too so will need to try it as well. i never realised when i bought it that it was the other side so turned it off in disgust and havnt looked at it since . what side you gonna be in sh5 ?

I play both sides in SH4, and SH5? Well, that's obvious.

[crabbit shaun]

i hadnt checked sh5 out until now, must admit it looks superb ! right up my street . i never even tried a mission on sh4. i remember watching the das boot mini series when i was a kid and the fascination has just stayed with me. thats why i kinda stuck with sh3, but must admit 5 might convert me.