hydrophone and internal gauges stuck

jscharpf · 11-17-12, 06:32 AM

Hello all, I've recently had some strange behavior out of my hydrophone as well as the internal gauges (located in the main control room).
On a long patrol I occasionally like to dive down and do a hydrophone check.
On both of my last two patrols, for some reason midway into the patrol, I went to a medium depth and my hydrophone was stuck, meaning, it was facing straight up, and my mouse could do nothing with it. My hydrophone operator still called out ships he heard if there were any. At the same time, and I'm not sure if it's coincidence, when I would go to the main control room, the three large gauges (depth, air pressure, and CO2) were also stuck with the needles pointing up.
The slide out depth gauge worked fine so I'm still able to get around.

This has happened in two consecutive patrols now.

It seemed to start after I installed SH3 Commander and checked the "model failures" or whatever that checkbox is called. I at first thought this was a failure "forced" by SH3 commander, and thought it was kind of cool, but then after my patrol, I unchecked the box to verify, and restarted a new patrol. Now I have the same problem.

Again, maybe coincidence, but it seems to happen when the waves get large.. again I can't really confirm this, only that I saw it happen after the sea gets rough.

I have LSH3 5.1 installed, OLC gauges, SH3 Commander. Not much else.

I do notice that the waves are getting REALLY HUGE.. and once I hit those large waves north of England, they NEVER recede!.. so I can no longer use my deck gun, etc...

Again, not saying this caused it, but this is probably my 20th or so patrol and it only started after I checked that "model failure" option in SH3 commander. Unchecking it didn't help. Could it be "stuck" in that mode? Maybe I need to start a new career?

Anyone ever see this behavior?

Could the really large waves be damaging my hydrophone?

P.S. I also set the wave height to seasonal in SH3 commander. I was considering knocking these down a bit, as they make it almost impossible to target a ship and as I said earlier, they never recede until I complete the patrol.

Jeff

11-17-12, 06:32 AM	#1
jscharpf Frogman Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Bucharest, Romania Posts: 296 Downloads: 325 Uploads: 0	hydrophone and internal gauges stuck Hello all, I've recently had some strange behavior out of my hydrophone as well as the internal gauges (located in the main control room). On a long patrol I occasionally like to dive down and do a hydrophone check. On both of my last two patrols, for some reason midway into the patrol, I went to a medium depth and my hydrophone was stuck, meaning, it was facing straight up, and my mouse could do nothing with it. My hydrophone operator still called out ships he heard if there were any. At the same time, and I'm not sure if it's coincidence, when I would go to the main control room, the three large gauges (depth, air pressure, and CO2) were also stuck with the needles pointing up. The slide out depth gauge worked fine so I'm still able to get around. This has happened in two consecutive patrols now. It seemed to start after I installed SH3 Commander and checked the "model failures" or whatever that checkbox is called. I at first thought this was a failure "forced" by SH3 commander, and thought it was kind of cool, but then after my patrol, I unchecked the box to verify, and restarted a new patrol. Now I have the same problem. Again, maybe coincidence, but it seems to happen when the waves get large.. again I can't really confirm this, only that I saw it happen after the sea gets rough. I have LSH3 5.1 installed, OLC gauges, SH3 Commander. Not much else. I do notice that the waves are getting REALLY HUGE.. and once I hit those large waves north of England, they NEVER recede!.. so I can no longer use my deck gun, etc... Again, not saying this caused it, but this is probably my 20th or so patrol and it only started after I checked that "model failure" option in SH3 commander. Unchecking it didn't help. Could it be "stuck" in that mode? Maybe I need to start a new career? Anyone ever see this behavior? Could the really large waves be damaging my hydrophone? P.S. I also set the wave height to seasonal in SH3 commander. I was considering knocking these down a bit, as they make it almost impossible to target a ship and as I said earlier, they never recede until I complete the patrol. Jeff