No news updates / no more docking

[Kaleun_Saxi]

Hello fellow Kaleuns,

I started playing SH3 (GWX) again recently and found two mysteries I hope you can solve:

1. Since March 1944 the news bulletin (whatever it is called I dunno) in the loading screen doesn't update any more. Why's that?
2. In the last mission in May 1945 I can't end the mission. When I'm sunk by the enemy (I was hunting again in Scapa Flow with my XXI, good fun! ) or when I come back to a friendly port and choose END MISSION the game crashes and I am back on my Win XP desktop. No error message box. Has anyone else experienced this problem? When I start a new career it works again fine.

Thanks,
René
U-3017 XXI

[Aktungbby]

Kaleun_Saxi after a seven year silent run!

[Kaleun_Saxi]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Kaleun_Saxi after a seven year silent run!

Crazy, isn't it? I didn't play SH3 between 2010 and 2013, and a few weeks ago I finally startet finishing my career in sunny Indonesia. Then I came back to Bergen to get a freshly made XXI but now I can't finish my career properly.

Back on subsim I browsed through the topics and found out that there are already one or two updates to GWX so I might make a fresh installation of SH3 plus GWX Gold and start all over again...

I find it strange starting a new career back in 1939, because my crew isn't trained anymore ('Sorry Kaleun, we're to sleepy to reload torpedoes') and the Schnorchel is missing. Only 14 torpedoes to fire? Damn!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Kaleun_Saxi

Crazy, isn't it? I didn't play SH3 between 2010 and 2013, and a few weeks ago I finally startet finishing my career in sunny Indonesia. Then I came back to Bergen to get a freshly made XXI but now I can't finish my career properly.

Back on subsim I browsed through the topics and found out that there are already one or two updates to GWX so I might make a fresh installation of SH3 plus GWX Gold and start all over again...

I find it strange starting a new career back in 1939, because my crew isn't trained anymore ('Sorry Kaleun, we're to sleepy to reload torpedoes') and the Schnorchel is missing. Only 14 torpedoes to fire? Damn!

Sink em all matey

[Kaleun_Saxi]

I just reinstalled SH3 according to the instructions here in the forum, and the game runs fine.

Now I want to install GWX 3.0 Gold onto SH3, but as soon as the copying process is about to start I get error messages that the source files are corrupted and can't be read. All the installation files are in the same folder on my HDD. I do not have a GWXInstErr.log File unfortunately. Any ideas?

I've attached a screenshot. I hope you all got your "German Word Recognition Manual" at hand!

[Pisces]

There are some download locations that are known to be corrupt. (I don't know which though) The known good location is the link shown in Jimbuna's signature (2 posts above).

[Kaleun_Saxi]

Originally Posted by Pisces

There are some download locations that are known to be corrupt. (I don't know which though) The known good location is the link shown in Jimbuna's signature (2 posts above).

Thank you, that seems to have helped. The files are now being extracted from the bin files correctly.