LIVING SILENT HUNTER III EDITION 2015 - News & Download

Woof1701 · 04-16-17, 04:44 AM

Hi there,

Sorry to bother you. First of all thank you very much for all the great work you have done in keeping SH3 alive. I had quit playing GWX some years ago and now decided to try LSH3-2015. What I have seen so far looks great and I'm looking forward to LSH3-2017 in summer.

There's one little catch however:
I cannot seem to get any widescreen mod to work with my setup. First of all I naturally went to my graphics settings to activate "GPU scaling" and set it to "maintain aspect ratio".

Nevertheless I always get the "cannot initialze 3D engine" message as soon as I activate one of the Widescreen Mods. I tried using only the _LSH3-2015__FULLVERSION and _LSH3-2015_GUI__WIDESCREEN mods in JSGME. As soon as I deactivate the widescreen mod, SH3 starts in 4:3 mode with two black bars left and right.

Am I doing something wrong? Any ideas?
Thanks a lot.

BTW:
Windows 10 Home (64bit)
16GB Ram
AMD Radeon R9 200 Series 3GB Ram
Driver Version 16.40

THEBERBSTER · 04-16-17, 07:46 AM

Hi Woof
Make sure the games video settings looks like this from Options.

Peter

Woof1701 · 04-16-17, 09:56 AM

Hello Berbster,

Thanks for the tip. Yep those settings are active. Doesn't help though :-(

I still had Windows 7 64 bit installed on a different partition as well and installed SH3 and LSH3-2015 there with an older Catalyst Pack from 2015. THAT works quite well. Will now try with an older Catalyst version on Windows 10 as well.

THEBERBSTER · 04-16-17, 02:05 PM

Hi Woof

Quote:

Nevertheless I always get the "cannot initialze 3D engine" message as soon as I activate one of the Widescreen Mods.

GPU problem.
Please post your mods as the answer maybe here?
Post #9 JSGME How To Export Your Mod List To A Subsim Post
Peter

Woof1701 · 04-18-17, 03:20 PM

Hello Berbster,

Thanks. On Windows 10 I had no further Mods activated: only the main LSH3 mod and the wide screen mod.

Generic Mod Enabler - v2.6.0.157
[E:\SilentHunter3\MODS]

_LSH3-2015___FULLVERSION
_LSH3-2015_GUI__WIDESCREEN

So far with Windows 7 everything seems to work perfectly. So I will simply revert to playing SH3 on Win7.

BTW:
I downloaded the UPlay version of SH3 for use with Windows 7, since I couldn't reinstall my older version (said it was activated too often), and it case you don't know: it seems to be missing the "radius.tga" file in the data/menu/gui/layout folder.
On Windows 10 I used the older version I once downloaded via amazon.

THEBERBSTER · 04-18-17, 05:53 PM

Hi Woof
What you need to is get a clean un-modded installation of SH3 and make a copy of it.
You now have a backup copy which you never add anything to it.
At this point there is no saved game folder until you go to the Naval Academy which is fine as you do not need to do that with this backup copy.
Making a backup copy means you will never need to do another installation download.
You always have the backup copy to take another copy from it, as and when, you want to use it for whatever purpose.

SH3 does not like Windows 10
Run all your applications JSGME, SH3Comander as administrators including the SH3.exe in the HSIE mods folder along with HSIE application.
Both of the SH3.exe should be run in compatibility mode for Windows 7.
Peter

Woof1701 · 04-19-17, 09:59 AM

Hi Berbster,

Thanks for your patience. Many years ago I did some modding for SH2 and later in the beginning with SH3 before the supermods came along and I was completely out of my league. :-)

However, since then I had always used a fresh clean installation of SH3, and I have had a pretty good idea what to expect, and how to treat mods with or without JSGME. That's why I was so puzzled that I couldn't get it to work.
But if you say Windows 10 an SH3 don't get along too well, I will stick with Windows 7. That's no problem at all. I always keep an extra partition with the older OS for cases such as these.

As I said: LSH3 works flawlessly with my Windows 7.

04-16-17, 04:44 AM	#1
Woof1701 Commodore Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Munich, Germany, Home of U-96 Posts: 633 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Hi there, Sorry to bother you. First of all thank you very much for all the great work you have done in keeping SH3 alive. I had quit playing GWX some years ago and now decided to try LSH3-2015. What I have seen so far looks great and I'm looking forward to LSH3-2017 in summer. There's one little catch however: I cannot seem to get any widescreen mod to work with my setup. First of all I naturally went to my graphics settings to activate "GPU scaling" and set it to "maintain aspect ratio". Nevertheless I always get the "cannot initialze 3D engine" message as soon as I activate one of the Widescreen Mods. I tried using only the _LSH3-2015__FULLVERSION and _LSH3-2015_GUI__WIDESCREEN mods in JSGME. As soon as I deactivate the widescreen mod, SH3 starts in 4:3 mode with two black bars left and right. Am I doing something wrong? Any ideas? Thanks a lot. BTW: Windows 10 Home (64bit) 16GB Ram AMD Radeon R9 200 Series 3GB Ram Driver Version 16.40 Last edited by Woof1701; 04-16-17 at 05:02 AM.

04-16-17, 07:46 AM	#2
THEBERBSTER Growing Old Disgracefully Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Hythe - Southampton Posts: 9,609 Downloads: 1133 Uploads: 0	Hi Woof Make sure the games video settings looks like this from Options. Peter __________________ LSH3-2015 <> TUTORIALS <> ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW <> ALL IN ONE PLACE SH4 <> TUTORIALS <> HOW TO DO IT <> INFORMATION <> DOWNLOAD LINKS SH5 <> TUTORIALS <> HOW TO DO IT <> INFORMATION <> DOWNLOAD LINKS Always Here To Help A Fellow 'Subber' \| Need An Answer to A Question Just Send Me A PM Last edited by THEBERBSTER; 04-16-17 at 02:07 PM.

04-18-17, 03:20 PM	#5
Woof1701 Commodore Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Munich, Germany, Home of U-96 Posts: 633 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Hello Berbster, Thanks. On Windows 10 I had no further Mods activated: only the main LSH3 mod and the wide screen mod. Generic Mod Enabler - v2.6.0.157 [E:\SilentHunter3\MODS] _LSH3-2015___FULLVERSION _LSH3-2015_GUI__WIDESCREEN So far with Windows 7 everything seems to work perfectly. So I will simply revert to playing SH3 on Win7. BTW: I downloaded the UPlay version of SH3 for use with Windows 7, since I couldn't reinstall my older version (said it was activated too often), and it case you don't know: it seems to be missing the "radius.tga" file in the data/menu/gui/layout folder. On Windows 10 I used the older version I once downloaded via amazon. Last edited by Woof1701; 04-18-17 at 04:38 PM.

04-18-17, 05:53 PM	#6
THEBERBSTER Growing Old Disgracefully Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Hythe - Southampton Posts: 9,609 Downloads: 1133 Uploads: 0	Hi Woof What you need to is get a clean un-modded installation of SH3 and make a copy of it. You now have a backup copy which you never add anything to it. At this point there is no saved game folder until you go to the Naval Academy which is fine as you do not need to do that with this backup copy. Making a backup copy means you will never need to do another installation download. You always have the backup copy to take another copy from it, as and when, you want to use it for whatever purpose. SH3 does not like Windows 10 Run all your applications JSGME, SH3Comander as administrators including the SH3.exe in the HSIE mods folder along with HSIE application. Both of the SH3.exe should be run in compatibility mode for Windows 7. Peter __________________ LSH3-2015 <> TUTORIALS <> ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW <> ALL IN ONE PLACE SH4 <> TUTORIALS <> HOW TO DO IT <> INFORMATION <> DOWNLOAD LINKS SH5 <> TUTORIALS <> HOW TO DO IT <> INFORMATION <> DOWNLOAD LINKS Always Here To Help A Fellow 'Subber' \| Need An Answer to A Question Just Send Me A PM

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Switch to Linear Mode Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

04-16-17, 09:56 AM	#3
Woof1701 Commodore Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Munich, Germany, Home of U-96 Posts: 633 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Hello Berbster, Thanks for the tip. Yep those settings are active. Doesn't help though :-( I still had Windows 7 64 bit installed on a different partition as well and installed SH3 and LSH3-2015 there with an older Catalyst Pack from 2015. THAT works quite well. Will now try with an older Catalyst version on Windows 10 as well.

04-19-17, 09:59 AM	#7
Woof1701 Commodore Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Munich, Germany, Home of U-96 Posts: 633 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Hi Berbster, Thanks for your patience. Many years ago I did some modding for SH2 and later in the beginning with SH3 before the supermods came along and I was completely out of my league. :-) However, since then I had always used a fresh clean installation of SH3, and I have had a pretty good idea what to expect, and how to treat mods with or without JSGME. That's why I was so puzzled that I couldn't get it to work. But if you say Windows 10 an SH3 don't get along too well, I will stick with Windows 7. That's no problem at all. I always keep an extra partition with the older OS for cases such as these. As I said: LSH3 works flawlessly with my Windows 7.