Help Needed! sh3+gwx+mylaptop

shibbyuk29 · 10-01-11, 07:14 PM

hey guys, firstly i love sh3, but i want more!

i spent alot of effort to track down this game and buy it in order to play the gwx mod but i'm having some trouble.

my laptop specs

1.66 dual core cpu (rated at 2.5 or something)
1gb ram
128mb(maybe 256mb) nvideo geforce go 7400 graphics card

the laptop is fairly old but able to run many games full speed such as morrowind full of mods, resident evil 4 hd, and some not so fast but playable like starcraft 2.

i finally obtained silent hunter 3 from an exchange shop and downloaded the gwx mod. however upon running it i was greatly disheartened. long LONG load times, 5 minutes is outrageous. secondly the game often stutters and is unplayable for 10-30 secnds upon loading. a quick rotation of the camera in the boat will stutter as the game loads each detail onto my screen. my question is what do? i have 1.5gb free space. memory allocation is already tweaked with cacheman to speed up a different more modern game. is there no ini tweak for the loading ala killing floor(reducing 5mins to 30seconds)

what can i do, stock sh3 runs perfectly with minor niggles namely at 1024 compression. gwx at 1024 constantly locks up and is a struggle to reduce. often the music skips but i already have dxsound to basic acceleration which sped up another game. ay help would be appreciated, my birthday was yesterday and all i wanted was to install and play this game but its just no joy every step.

10-01-11, 07:14 PM	#1
shibbyuk29 Nub Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 4 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Help Needed! sh3+gwx+mylaptop hey guys, firstly i love sh3, but i want more! i spent alot of effort to track down this game and buy it in order to play the gwx mod but i'm having some trouble. my laptop specs 1.66 dual core cpu (rated at 2.5 or something) 1gb ram 128mb(maybe 256mb) nvideo geforce go 7400 graphics card the laptop is fairly old but able to run many games full speed such as morrowind full of mods, resident evil 4 hd, and some not so fast but playable like starcraft 2. i finally obtained silent hunter 3 from an exchange shop and downloaded the gwx mod. however upon running it i was greatly disheartened. long LONG load times, 5 minutes is outrageous. secondly the game often stutters and is unplayable for 10-30 secnds upon loading. a quick rotation of the camera in the boat will stutter as the game loads each detail onto my screen. my question is what do? i have 1.5gb free space. memory allocation is already tweaked with cacheman to speed up a different more modern game. is there no ini tweak for the loading ala killing floor(reducing 5mins to 30seconds) what can i do, stock sh3 runs perfectly with minor niggles namely at 1024 compression. gwx at 1024 constantly locks up and is a struggle to reduce. often the music skips but i already have dxsound to basic acceleration which sped up another game. ay help would be appreciated, my birthday was yesterday and all i wanted was to install and play this game but its just no joy every step.