SHIII for the Notebook Gamer

[Mowinz]

Hello everyone! I just recently bought SHIII and I got to tell you this game is awesome! It's been a few years since I've been able to fall in love again with a PC game. After being married to EAW for a few years I've been game free for a while.

So before I begin my love affair (50+ hours game time thus far) with SHIII I was hoping someone could set me off in the right direction about mods. Having spent a few hours reading the boards about various mods, gameplay, etc. It's apparent this game has a solid fan base which is great!

I've been playing the stock game with 1.4b patch on my notebook PC:

AMD 3400, 2.2 Mhz
1.5 RAM
ATI Xpress 200m 128
15.4 widescreen

I've been tweaking this notebook for maximum performance so the game looks pretty good. Still working on trying to optimize my virtual memory settings. But so far so good. The latest 7.1 ATI driver didnt get it done so I moving back to maybe 6.5 or so....

The GWX mod looks great but may be to heavy for my rig. What mods do you think will play best on my notebook?

Thanks in advance for any help!!!

[bigboywooly]

Hi and welcome to Subsim

I see no reason why GWX wont work on your notebook
Its better than my PC
You can always enable the Lite traffic mod if you find it too much in port

If you have the space do a dual install and give it a go
If you think too heavy then just delete the GWX install

Enjoy your stay

[Kapitan_Phillips]

2.2 MHz?! How does your mouse pointer move?!

Welcome to SubSim, anyway!

[Hakahura]

Go for GWX

Just stick to 8KM to be on the safe side.

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Lol. My comp is even worse and it still manages to run GWX. Of course it freezes every time I switch screens or try to look around, but I got used to it. I just stick with my map view, scope/UZO... what else... crew management and TDC, and thats enough. You really don't have to climb to tower to enjoy the landscape often to be deadly accurate as a Kaleun.

PS But it starts lagging very, very badly, when too many targets around, especially when approaching convoys and when close to ports. That can really drive one mad...

[melnibonian]

Welcome to SubSim

I don't think GWX` will not run in your computer. It seems pretty good. If you can run SH3 without any problem you can run GWX as well. It might be a bit slower but it will run, and more importantly you will have fun

[Corrupt_File]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

2.2 MHz?! How does your mouse pointer move?!

Welcome to SubSim, anyway!

My Centrino Mobile is listed at 1.5 GHz. I run GWX no prob with 16 km atmosphere and no problem with traffic. Runs most modern games at high performance (except FSX )

[Mowinz]

My rig handles SH3 ok but I cant go near high graphic setting because it bogs down. It does run pretty good at the High Performance setting in the basic ATI CCC. My hard drive runs at 4200 rpm which is probably slowing it all down.

I bought the Gateway Notebook with 512 RAM and added another 1024 of PNY DDR. Honestly, I haven't noticed that great of a deal of performance boost with the new memory and YES I am disappointed.

I still have to find a way to tweak it better. Got my running processes down to about 30 and ditched most of the crap.

One thing the Net is missing is an XP guide for gamers which includes everything needed to tune up a PC for game performance. Unbelievable. I've read tweakguide and some others but too bad there isn't one stop shop for all gaming tweaks for windows XP.

Since my rig isn't running at full capacity with some loose nuts I'm going to install GWX anyway and see what happens. I played the game earlier and it crashed on me. I know setting for no page file is not recommended but I read some where if you have plenty of RAM give it a try. I did and SH3 crashed on me. Go figure.

Thanks and cheers

[stabiz]

Welcome to SubSim, mowinz!

I tested GWX on my second computer with a 2ghz AMD Athlon 64, 512MB RAM and a 256MB gpu (6600GT). It ran well, so you should be okay.