Possible (new) weather fix discovery

[Leoz]

(Disclaimer: the following would have to be reviewed by some of the old hands on this forum to confirm the process. So, please, don't go out and make a change to your system unless you are confident of what you are doing).

Situation: We all know that adverse weather/storms can hang for a very long time.

State of play: You can put certain add-ons to Silent Hunter III to break the weather cycle somewhat. Also, super-mods like GWX3 address this somewhat.

Situation: it is possible I have found a new wrinkle to this issue. It was by accident.

My game setup. I use Win10 on a 5 year old i5 with 4Gb of RAM. Silent Hunter III via Steam. GWX3, SH3 Commander, Hitman optics. 4GB RAM patch.

While finishing some careers up, I had changed some of the settings of SH3 Commander to have a faster time speed up beyond the stock SHIII 1024 time. This is one of the things SH3 Commander offers. I set my game for the top setting being 4096 which also gives you 2048. I have found the 8xxx setting too much for my processor.

4096 and 2048 are great for long transits. Example if you are running a long mission with a type IX boat. Note that one can get into trouble running these higher non-stock settings by ending up in the lap of a destroyer. So, always use with care.

Getting to the real point: weather. It is my observation that when you run into a long period of rain that you can then run the speed up to 2048, 4096 for 6-8-12-or 24 hours of game time and it will BREAK the storm and/or run it through the different phases of weather faster. No more week or several weeks of storm.

Then once I break the storm I get back down to 1024 if I need to do some fast time.

Argument. I don't have the software, CPU, operating system facts on why this is. It could be something how the CPU calculates with the software routine.

For me, this method is fairly consistent at breaking a storm.

Extensive testing by others may discover the reasons for this and/or how practical it is.

For me, for my setup, it appears to be useful.

It is also possible that this, in no way, is an original "discovery".