Horrible graphics glitch with navmap compass rose

heville · 04-02-08, 07:54 AM

Hi all! New here, so please don't lynch me if this happens to be a newb question...

I've been playing SHIII with GWX 2.0 for a couple of weeks and I'm totally hooked with this great game (and a great mod too!). However, I have some awful graphics glitches, probably because my olde tyme laptop graphics card (Geforce4 440 Go) doesn't support pixel shading. Here's something I have to live with:

-Psychedelic greenish-purple colors on crewmembers
-Ship flags usually not showing
-Ship and torpedo wakes are white rectangles
-On shallow waters the water is brown
-The GWX u-boat compass rose that shows on small-scale (i.e. showing ship-shaped icons) nav maps is a grey rectangle covering everything beneath it

Now, I can live with almost all of this (I just imagine that my sub commander has a habit of eating strange mushrooms while on patrol...) but the compass rose thing is pretty annoying, since it effectively prevents me from using the small-scale map sizes. Is there a way to remove it - or fix this situation some other way? I do have the latest graphics drivers installed.

danlisa · 04-02-08, 08:06 AM

Welcome to Subsim.

IIRC (cos doing this from memory) you can remove the Compass/Bearing Overlay by going into the Player Sub folders inside the main SH3 program folder (example \data\Submarine\NSS_Uboat7b) and backup/delete the TGA called NSS_Uboat7b_shp.tga.

This is the overlay file and you will need to do the same for all the player boats.

Best to backup/save them elsewhere, just incase.

flakmonkey · 04-02-08, 08:21 AM

Putting up with all that just to play sh3, now thats dedication!
Bravo and welcome to the forum

Any chance of a screenshot??

heville · 04-02-08, 08:45 AM

Removing that tga seems to have done the trick for the compass rose. It does show a "tga shape not found" text, but heck, I'm happy with that. So thank you.

Here's a screenshot from the command room.

"Dude... Whoa... This stuff is awesome!"

klh · 04-02-08, 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by heville

Removing that tga seems to have done the trick for the compass rose. It does show a "tga shape not found" text, but heck, I'm happy with that. So thank you.

Here's a screenshot from the command room.

"Dude... Whoa... This stuff is awesome!"

Looks like you got the "mood lighting" upgrade last time in port.

von hally · 04-02-08, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by klh

Quote:

Originally Posted by heville

Removing that tga seems to have done the trick for the compass rose. It does show a "tga shape not found" text, but heck, I'm happy with that. So thank you.

Here's a screenshot from the command room.

"Dude... Whoa... This stuff is awesome!"

Looks like you got the "mood lighting" upgrade last time in port.

woohoo everyone to the disco sub....bernard is buying.....ladies from the establishments galore!!!!

04-02-08, 07:54 AM	#1
heville Swabbie Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Finland Posts: 6 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Horrible graphics glitch with navmap compass rose Hi all! New here, so please don't lynch me if this happens to be a newb question... I've been playing SHIII with GWX 2.0 for a couple of weeks and I'm totally hooked with this great game (and a great mod too!). However, I have some awful graphics glitches, probably because my olde tyme laptop graphics card (Geforce4 440 Go) doesn't support pixel shading. Here's something I have to live with: -Psychedelic greenish-purple colors on crewmembers -Ship flags usually not showing -Ship and torpedo wakes are white rectangles -On shallow waters the water is brown -The GWX u-boat compass rose that shows on small-scale (i.e. showing ship-shaped icons) nav maps is a grey rectangle covering everything beneath it Now, I can live with almost all of this (I just imagine that my sub commander has a habit of eating strange mushrooms while on patrol...) but the compass rose thing is pretty annoying, since it effectively prevents me from using the small-scale map sizes. Is there a way to remove it - or fix this situation some other way? I do have the latest graphics drivers installed.

04-02-08, 08:06 AM	#2
danlisa Navy Seal Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Cornwall, UK Posts: 5,499 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 1	Welcome to Subsim. IIRC (cos doing this from memory) you can remove the Compass/Bearing Overlay by going into the Player Sub folders inside the main SH3 program folder (example \data\Submarine\NSS_Uboat7b) and backup/delete the TGA called NSS_Uboat7b_shp.tga. This is the overlay file and you will need to do the same for all the player boats. Best to backup/save them elsewhere, just incase. __________________

04-02-08, 08:21 AM	#3
flakmonkey Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Staffordshire, Uk Posts: 944 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	Putting up with all that just to play sh3, now thats dedication! Bravo and welcome to the forum Any chance of a screenshot?? __________________

04-02-08, 08:45 AM	#4
heville Swabbie Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Finland Posts: 6 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Removing that tga seems to have done the trick for the compass rose. It does show a "tga shape not found" text, but heck, I'm happy with that. So thank you. Here's a screenshot from the command room. "Dude... Whoa... This stuff is awesome!"