GWX Missions won't load? Huh?

[hauangua]

Originally Posted by zosX

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

At first I thought my 10 year old installation that I've copied across several computers went corrupt somehow. I was trying to load some of the single missions with a type xxi and it kept crashing to desktop after the simulation loaded and started.

So I refreshed my install from my backup. Same deal. Well, ok, let's see if I can find another copy of the disk since I've already bought SH3 twice now. All I can find is Russian copies. Damn. So I look on steam and its only $3 on sale right now! Ok. I install the steam version and install GWX and fire it up without even installing any of the optional GWX mods. If I load the mission to sink the italian battleship it crashes. Even with the default sub. Same on the Convoy 69 mission. Some of these missions won't load it seems. Which is really frustrating because it takes 4-5 minutes to load a mission even with SH3 completely cached in memory on a pretty fast i7.

Also if I play with the type XXI the interior tends to disappear randomly and I am left with just the untextured walls of the interior. What the hell? That kept happening and that's when I started assuming that my install was corrupt somehow. Is that just a bug?

I mean GWX hit version 3. I would assume that the missions were playtested at one point, so why won't they load for me? As far as I know the steam install is ok, and besides my old install has the same exact problem. I just never played the single missions until now. Is this normal and I just wasted a few hours trying to solve a known problem? I'm so confused. I'm running on Win10 if that makes any difference. SH3 seems to work fine under it though I never tried to run widescreen or anything crazy.

Hi Zosx
Path file of your SH3 Steam installation?
Have you installed 4GB patch?

[zosX]

Path shouldn't matter but it does this when it is installed both under steam's app cache and when I just have it in my generic games folder on C:\

C:\games\Silent Hunter III\etc......

I had it in the GOG folder earlier, but that doesn't really matter. I know people suggest moving stuff out of steam because there is the possibility that it gets overwritten with stock files there. I did try with the 4gb patch.....but then I was thinking as I typed this......

OMG. I'm an idiot. It works fine once you set compatibility to Windows 7. I don't know why I didn't think of checking that.

I reapplied some optional GWX mods and lo and behold my save game that I've been working on for years still works fine. Yay. I'm almost in 1943 and I have almost 300k in tonnage sunk. My first time out with a Type II, I sailed right up into a harbor and sunk a revenge class battleship. Good times. The war is about to get really **********ing tough so I might just have to cheat and give myself a type XXI. I've been playing a parallel career in SH4 and I think I'm actually liking the german side better due to the greater challenge. And that's playing SH4 with TMO, which I think makes the escorts unrealistically accurate and aggressive. I mean I can't even see a ship, it's night and pouring rain and they're shelling me already? WTF Ducimas? But I'm way digressing here.....

Anyone know how to make lights not shine through everything on nvidia? Even with AA off that bug persists no matter what I try.

And thank you all for the attempts to help.