[TEC] Does this game have some kind of cache file?

[leovampire]

you mean the folder in the documents that holds the save's?

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by wovik

Perhaps this is for internet access for multiplayer?

Nah, I'm thinking more like marketing strategy since it is fooling with the ubi cookies. Perhaps to give them an idea of what games you are playing of theirs or what types of games to pitch to you when you are on their site. I'm totally guessing here, so don't quote me.

[wovik]

Originally Posted by leovampire

you mean the folder in the documents that holds the save's?

Yes, that's what I meant.

[leovampire]

or do you go inside of it and delete everything?

[wovik]

I delete the entire folder and subfolders. Delete folder:

"SH4"

When you first setup the game there was no "SH4" folder until the first time you started the game.
It will create a new one so it's easier to just delete the entire folder instead of just the files.
Of course, you loose all your saves.

[leovampire]

I just had 2 good jokes sent to me by a friend thought I would post it for you guys!

A guy comes home from work feeling bad about the day's
activities. He lays down on the couch and ponders his
actions. Like most of us, his conscience has two voices; that of his good
moral side and that of his mischievous side.
While staring at the ceiling, a voice in his head says
"don't worry about it, a lot of doctors have sex with their patients." The man
tosses and turns in reflection of his actions. Again the voice says "don't worry
about it, a lot of doctors have sex with their patients." Feeling somewhat
relieved, the man begins to relax and feel better about himself at which time
another voice in head says, "but you're a veterinarian."

And now this one:

A man goes to visit his 85-year-old grandpa in hospital."How are you grandpa?
he asks.
"Feeling fine," says the old man.
"What's the food like?"
"Terrific, wonderful menus."
"And the nursing?"
"Just couldn't be better. These young nurses really take care of you."
"What about sleeping? Do you sleep OK?"
"No problem, nine hours solid every night. At 10 o'clock they bring me a cup
of hot chocolate and a Viagra tablet ... and that's it.
I go out like a light."
The grandson is puzzled and a little alarmed by this, so rushes off to
question the Sister in charge. "What are you people doing,"he says, "I'm told
you're giving an 85-year-old Viagra on a daily basis. Surely that can't be
true?"
"Oh, yes," replies the Sister. "Every night at 10 o'clock we give him a cup of
hot chocolate and a Viagra tablet. It works wonderfully well. The
chocolate makes him sleep, and the Viagra stops him from rolling out of bed.

[wovik]

Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

Nah, I'm thinking more like marketing strategy since it is fooling with the ubi cookies. Perhaps to give them an idea of what games you are playing of theirs or what types of games to pitch to you when you are on their site. I'm totally guessing here, so don't quote me.

Yep, your probably correct. It does seem like every game will make an internet access if I don't have the DSL modem disabled.
I shut it down except for Flight Simulator when I'm using it to update the weather.

[wovik]

@leovampire

You can rename the directory if you want to save your campaigns. Will just have to hope any changes you make will work if you change it back to "SH4" to continue a career. I usually change it to "4SH" when I do this.

[leovampire]

I will definatly try it anything that will make the effects work will be a good thing.

[wovik]

Be warned.... sometimes changing the directory name to save you careers works fine with the new changes when you name it back to SH4. Sometimes it doesn't!! So much for making changes when in port. It doesn't always work. Yesterday I made a little change and when I went on the next patrol my SD radar didn't work. I tried rebooting the computor and starting the Patrol over but it still refused to work. I then finally renamed the folder and started a brand new career (with SH4 making a new SH4 folder) and the SD worked fine along with the change I made (which should in no way interfere with the SD Radar). I then undid the change and tried my old career out again and it worked fine. So you see, it wouldn't accept the change I made even though I was in port when introducing the change. I wish I could remember which of the many small tweaks I tried yesterday caused this mess. I only remember that the change was fine as long as I deleted the "SH4" folder in "My documents" and started a new career. I ran across this before too. The longest career I've had is 3 patrols since TM 1.5 was released! I keep tweaking things. LOL

[leovampire]

but anything that changes over all game effects in a major way react strainge.

The scene.dat file and the zone's file you can do what ever you want and put it in and out of the game over and over again but the materials file and particles file are a differn't story for one reason or another.

but you have to always dot every i and cross every T for anything to work. If you miss 1 thing that's it nothing works.

Example: I had to match up the minimum distance and maximum distance for each lightning setting in the scene, particles, and materials files to even come close to getting the lightning to work at all. When even 1 of those settings were off no go for effects.

[Digital_Trucker]

Slightly off the topic:


I'm beginning to think this game is possessed. Tater and I have been trying to implement an invisible ship to use as a camera target for photographic missions. The one that he did (an invisible sampan) is invisible in my periscope but visible everywhere else. The one that I did (a hybrid sampan/junk) is invisible (all views) and lockable on my machine but is not lockable on taters machine and causes a CTD if you add anything to the mission it's in. I could almost understand it if it was a camera thing, but I think it's a lot more than that. What works fine on my machine shouldn't just not exist on tater's (or cause a CTD for that matter) and vice versa. There are so many variables involved (type of video card, drivers being used, video settings, other mods in use, operating system, processor capabilities) that it may be paractically impossible for us to determine the root cause (which gives me that much more incentive to keep until the goes off).

[leovampire]

make it submerged just enough to be able to get a lock on it?

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by leovampire

make it submerged just enough to be able to get a lock on it?

"That's a thought, but can you use a sub as a photographic target?" he says as he fires up the mission editor

[leovampire]

I did that in one of my phtograph missions so why not as a phto graph mission it's self?

What I did was add the shp from one of the US subs to it's file and named it properly for that JAP sub and it alowed me to use it for target practice and make it show up on the map.