GWX (Grey Wolves eXpansion Mod)

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard matey

Follow the instructions on the GWX website to the letter (accessible from my sig)

[kjuice]

Hi, I have re installed sh3 and patched it up to 1.4. Then I have installed the GWX and it all went well. When I tried to run it, it gave me a "cannot run" code 87. I could not find it in forums. anyone know what it is?

[moscowexile]

To update may tale of woe: I can now tell you that the glitch that I'm suffering from must be because of the driver I'm using (ATI 8.1 for a Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP card), which driver I was advised to download by Game Shadow. (I was, in fact, advised of this possibility several days ago by donw.)

I've at last managed to check out my bought in England and already updated to 1.4b stock SH3 on another PC and it runs fine: it doesn't run correctly on this PC that I'm now using (illegible grid numbers and vessel markers on the chart), but it did before I downloaded and installed the above mentioned driver. Previously I used a Radeon 9550 card and an ATI 7.1 driver: the game ran, though somewhat jerkily at times, because I then had only 512Mb RAM. I now have 1.5Gb RAM and I changed the video card and then the driver, which, hopefully, through a process of elimination, sems to be the culprit of my present extreme withdrawal symptons that I have been suffering from as a result of the present non-accessability of my favourite relaxation activity: GWX cold turkey I'm talking about, and it's hell!

In addition to the glitch as regards the grid numbers, the intro film is now a garish blue and green and red impressionist work of art, though the graphics for the game proper are fine, apart, that is, from the grid numbers.

I'm going to change to the 7.1 driver and see what happens.

I will keep you posted about developments so that my present unfortunate condition, should it occur with other shipmates, be quickly remedied by the cure that I have been seeking for almost a fortnight now, which cure, I shall, hopefully, soon inform you of.

[donw]

fortnight?...:hmm:..hmmmm
..counts on fingers..runs out of fingers!
..takes off shoes..counts..
2 Weeks!!!

I would have KILLED somebody or something by now!! :rotfl:

Get those vid drivers rolled back Mate! Universal rule of video drivers: Never ever use the most latest...always go back 2 or 3 versions till they get the creepy crawlers smashed!

[moscowexile]

At long last I've fettled it!

I have suffered hell these past 16 days trying to fathom out what had gone wrong with my system and finally came to the conclusion earlier this evening that my computer was sound, as were my drives, video card and stock version of SH3. So I concluded that I must have made an adjustment some time or other over a fortnight ago that had thrown a spanner into the works resulting in the graphics glitch on my chart.

Then suddenly, about an hour ago: EUREKA!

I remembered having, for some reason or other, chosen the option not to compress drive D (where my games folder is) in order to save disc space. This function is in the options of the disc drives: left click "My Computer" - right click a disc drive - left click "options". I remember choosing not to compress the D drive so as to see what would happen. Nothing happened, I thought, until I next loaded a saved game outward bound from Wilhelmshaven and I totally forgot about my "adjustment" to the D drive onthe previous day.

One thing that I discovered during my recent trails and tribulations is that my new Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP video card is not (or wasn't until a couple of weeks ago) supported by ATI. When you download the latest drivers from ATI, they do not recognise this hardware: you have to download a modified ATI driver from "Saphire", the manufacturer of said card. It's a long, involved story why; if you're interested how to get by this irritating non-compatibility problem, it's all there on Google.

But enough of this! At long last I've got the taste of salt on my lips and the stench of diesel fumes in my nostrils.

Gott straf England!

[Alex]

Glad to know that you got your problem sorted, mate !! Enjoy the GWXperience !

[donw]

Outstanding! I can finally get a good nights sleep, as this problem has been bugging me as bad as you! :rotfl:

Good job Mate!

You say you chose NOT to compress?
None of my drives are compressed as compression slows loading time
due to de-compression times.

Is your game run from a compressed drive then?

[DirtyACE]

I've noticed something interesting lately. It's regarding officer's uniforms. Correct me if I'm wrong but GWX2.0 has added uniform designs, like the elite black uniform. I just noticed it after enlisting a new watch officer because my old one got arrested for being drunk (I'm not kidding, that's what SH3Cmdr told me). Anyway, I was on the bridge and noticed this new guy wearing the black shirt (or whatever it is) and dark pants, plus his cap was dark too. So was this something included in the 2.0 version? I'm asking because I had the elite uniforms mod installed in the 1.03 version and not sure if somehow it affected 2.0, even though I completely uninstalled everything before making a fresh install.

The other thing is that my game crashed durring my 2nd patrol but I have no idea why. I know certain situations in the game do cause save game crashes, like saving while being submerged but I was surfaced. I did sink a ship though, and after getting the confirmation message that it was going down I saved my game. Was it because I was too close to the wreckage, did that affect the save or something? I tried restarting from the save but it kept CTD, so I had to restart the patrol.

Yep.
2.0 uses the elite Uniforms.
Not sure about the saves CTD'ing
There may be many reasons for that.
We may have also fixed some of those reasons already for 2.01

[moscowexile]

Originally Posted by privateer

You say you chose NOT to compress?
None of my drives are compressed as compression slows loading time
due to de-compression times.

Is your game run from a compressed drive then?

Aye! A fortnight ago I had unchecked the box along which is stated: "Compress drive to save disk space".

The result was a graphics glitch, but only on an updated 1.4b stock SH3.

I re-checked said box yesterday evening and the glitch vanished.




As regards loading time, since installing 1.53 Gb RAM and a Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP video card, the game loads up at breathtaking spead when compared to the time taken when I had 512 Gb anda Radeon 9550 card.

I am now running on a compressed D drive and churning across the North Sea bound for the coastal waters of Perfidious Albion.

Update February 14th 2008

It came back - the glitch that is - when I restarted my mission the following day.

I hit ctrl-alt+delete, left clicked "my computer", right clicked the icon to get "options" and de-checked the compress drive option. Back to the game. The problem had gone. So then I realised that it couldn't be the compress option that's the cause: the fault went when I decompressed, returned, and went gain when I compressed.

I saved the game, rebooted and reloaded the mission. The glitch was there again. So this time I hit ctrl+alt+delete but then returned to the game without adjusting D drive compression: the fault had gone.

This happens all the time now: when I load, the fault appears; I switch off the picture by bringing in the task manager, do not use the latter and switch it off, and return to the game; the fault has gone.

There is something amiss in my display, but what it is I just cannot fathom out... and it BUGS ME!!!!

[lorcan3]

Well Kapitain Lehman, I fixed my problem. I loaded SH3,all the patches, The GWX 2.0 and hit GWX 2.0.exe to run the program. Boy, I'll tell you what! You folks went all out and made the game even better than it was with the exra ships and planes and stuff! Kudos to you and the crew! Hoo hoo hoo!
Now the bad news. I was playing the carrer mode and here I was heading off to New York in a beautiful IXB U-Boat with radar, hydrophones,new crew, etc. I decided to play some music on the gramaphone. Neat tunes I must say. But then the game froze and the song sounded like a broken record. This has happened 3 times since I donwloaded it this morning. My computer has a Pentium 4 3.2 GHZ chip, 2 Gigabytes of memory, 300 Gigabytes on my hard drive unused, Nvidia 6800 vid card w/updated driver and soundblaster Audigy2 zx sound card.

Hi there Kaleuns. I am new here. I wanna ask- i have downlouded GWX2 mod, instaled and now i see a little bit of mods like: GWX - 16km Atmosphere, GWX - No Medals on Crew, GWX - Integrated Orders and etc. Where could i find descriptions about this mods with print screens? Thanks and sorry for my bad english.

[HundertzehnGustav]

16 km mod will make you horizont BIGGER
but nothing else will change. just a notmal horizont where you can see much more far away.

and this one don't understand: GWX - Captain America's Officer Icons.

And one more question, whit GRW2 MOD was folder GWX_2.0_Cfg_4_SH3Cmdr whit files inside: Randomised events.cfg; Ship displacements.cfg; Ship names.cfg; U-boat availability.cfg are this all files MOD's too? Sorry for stupid questions.