A simple set-up for a now simple guy?

Henry Wood · 04-19-09, 12:38 AM

Hi,
I've been playing SHIII for many and many a year but I've hit a big problem. I've recently started out with a new computer, but also, my career has come to a complete dead end following a slight stroke in real life and I need some help to get things going again and avoid the rages my present set-up of the game is giving me. (I don't know how, but after I saved my last game/career, darkness is no longer available, even when the interior goes to red if I look outside it is daylight. I get a bit frustrated/angry with things like that.)

I used to play with GWX3 but cannot handle it at the moment. I had been playing with what I thought was a perfect setup of almost Vanilla SH3 plus *many* mods, all installed with the JSJones mod tool. Just now when I loaded a save, up comes the 24 hour daylight problem. Even loading previous saves where all worked well before does not cure it so I think I will trash them. Maybe I got too many mods conflicting with each other?

It sometimes seems like it's going to be too big a challenge to try setting it all up again when all I want to do is go to sea so I am wondering if anyone has a *simple* set-up I could follow, please?

What I would like:
Mainly a vanilla SHIII, but with plenty of "eye candy" effects from the mods. As I say, I have just about every mod available as I also purchased the big mods DVD from Neal so I should be able to install any combinations you guys might suggest.

My setup (I don't know what some of this means, I'm just reading it off Everest/Belmarc)

Win XP Home SP3
Processor:
3.00 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
6144 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Memory:
3328 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 2048 MB (serial number SerNum00)
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 2048 MB (serial number SerNum02)
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty

Display:
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ (512 MB)

I have already got two spare folders on my SH3 drive each containing pure Vanilla SH3 patched to 1.4, but *please*, no suggestions of GWX etc. I have those available and I've tried them but they are beyond me at the moment.

I can manage all of the keyboard commands and I think this is why I am sticking with SH3, even someone a bit disabled like me can still run a tight ship.

(I Hope)

Thanks for any help.

04-19-09, 12:38 AM	#1
Henry Wood Sparky Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UK Posts: 150 Downloads: 57 Uploads: 0	A simple set-up for a now simple guy? Hi, I've been playing SHIII for many and many a year but I've hit a big problem. I've recently started out with a new computer, but also, my career has come to a complete dead end following a slight stroke in real life and I need some help to get things going again and avoid the rages my present set-up of the game is giving me. (I don't know how, but after I saved my last game/career, darkness is no longer available, even when the interior goes to red if I look outside it is daylight. I get a bit frustrated/angry with things like that.) I used to play with GWX3 but cannot handle it at the moment. I had been playing with what I thought was a perfect setup of almost Vanilla SH3 plus many mods, all installed with the JSJones mod tool. Just now when I loaded a save, up comes the 24 hour daylight problem. Even loading previous saves where all worked well before does not cure it so I think I will trash them. Maybe I got too many mods conflicting with each other? It sometimes seems like it's going to be too big a challenge to try setting it all up again when all I want to do is go to sea so I am wondering if anyone has a simple set-up I could follow, please? What I would like: Mainly a vanilla SHIII, but with plenty of "eye candy" effects from the mods. As I say, I have just about every mod available as I also purchased the big mods DVD from Neal so I should be able to install any combinations you guys might suggest. My setup (I don't know what some of this means, I'm just reading it off Everest/Belmarc) Win XP Home SP3 Processor: 3.00 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo 64 kilobyte primary memory cache 6144 kilobyte secondary memory cache Memory: 3328 Megabytes Installed Memory Slot 'DIMM0' has 2048 MB (serial number SerNum00) Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty Slot 'DIMM2' has 2048 MB (serial number SerNum02) Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty Display: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ (512 MB) I have already got two spare folders on my SH3 drive each containing pure Vanilla SH3 patched to 1.4, but please, no suggestions of GWX etc. I have those available and I've tried them but they are beyond me at the moment. I can manage all of the keyboard commands and I think this is why I am sticking with SH3, even someone a bit disabled like me can still run a tight ship. (I Hope) Thanks for any help.