G'Day from an old Tanker

[KnightsCross]

G'Day again Gents
This is my first time on pc games. I'm slowly reading through your threads, they are very interesting but seem very confusing. I am finding that I have the same issues as many of you and I can see you have the fixes for these problems The pc I'm using is my sons and seems to just run the game in most levels and locks up in others, especially the last German mission.
I not confident enough to do anymore than read until I can get the hang of this stuff, plus I need to get my own pc which is a little out of reach for me at the moment.
This is a great site and all of your input is terrific, I would love to get one of the sub games SH5 seems to be the to get, at one stage in my career I thought of a transfer to subs so you can see my interest is real.
My passion remains with the Tiger 1 and I have posted some photos below of my, 1/16 Tiger S04 88 kills in winter cam, and 1/6 scratch build with my 105mm HEAT Prac round in front of it.

Tanks for your help so far
Darren
KnightsCross

[morttheslayer]

Hi Darren nice motor in the Garage!!

If you're having trouble running TvsT it could a huge number of reasons.

To improve in your case I'm sure all members have tips/advice but to give us a clue if you decide to try and improve, please publish your PC specs here; most crucially CPU type, GPU type/series, sound card (if any), RAM and software/OS.
You're wise to sit back and gather info though because you will probably be abe to tweak some settings yourself when you get confident.
And it won't be long because any man that that can file a Tiger from a solid block deservs great respect.

Silent Hunter 4 Gold is a good package at the moment (includes U Boat missions plus Pacific), with SH5 you need a permanent internet connection to play, and many posts critisize SH5 for not having the sim realism of the earlier series!
For what its worth Darren I am not qualified personally to criticise or praise the series as I don't own any SH games !! - but, I know a man who does!!!! Just some points maybe you might consider, apologies if you knew all this before.

Best Wishes - Mort

[KnightsCross]

G'Day Mort
I take it by "nice motor in the garage"you mean my bike ? its an XV1100 Yamaha, Black of course, my Wife has a matching XV250 and she wants a 650, we haven't had the funds to register them since 2001, 4 kids 23 21 20 18 last 1 leaving school soon WOOHOO ! then will shall be able to ,we hope 2 left home 2 to go, then its time to
Thanks for the heads up on SH4, for now I just want TvsT working and a cp of my own, so any help will be much appreciated as I have to do the best I can on this for now.

I dont know my way round a pc very well but I got this far, is it what you need ?

Windows XP
Home edition
2002
Service Pack 3
AMD Athlon(tm)
1.15GHz,512MB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Audio Codecs
Vidio Codecs
Legacy Audio Drivers
Legacy Vidio Capure Devices
Virtual Memory 766MB Recommended, 1536MB Allocated
C drive has 149GB ,30GB Free
Tanks Again
Darren

[morttheslayer]

Hi Darren
Yes it's good to have children, they say it keeps you young but with me the opposite occurred!!
Looking at your specs it's would seem a mixture of good and bad news.
First the good news your Hard Disk looks OK

No I'm having a joke mate, generally your system is a bit light especially for TvsT. What I would do is see how far you can optimise what you've got to see if you can survive until you can upgrade or get a newer PC.
Firstly you have a good OS for TvsT IMO. When you bring up Task Manager (Cntrl Alt Delete) how many processes are running and what are they taking in resources? I get slowdowns and my system isn't a slouch by any means and I run TvsT with just 18 background (essential) processes or applications.
I can post my apps running if yours are top heavy (i.e. you've got 30-40 apps running) and you can shut some of yours down and see if my apps work for you OK.
Mostly it should but there is some trial and error. You can safely turn off a significant number to improve or free up spare capacity. The worst you can do with this is cause a shutdown which will not harm the system at all it will re-start as normal - all you need to do if it does this is keep that particular app running next time!
Then bottom out all the Game options like shadows, model detail, forest animation, grass etc etc. Horrible to contemplate I know but must be tried to see what the performance can translate into gameplay and FPS.
I apologise in advance if you have already tried this BTW.
However if not let me know what you find, and what you decide
- All the Best - Mort

[KnightsCross]

Tanks Mort
Just had a look at the gobbledegook that is Task Manager
I have 31 processors running ! oh boy wotzwot
Yes please to this offer
"I can post my apps running if yours are top heavy (i.e. you've got 30-40 apps running) and you can shut some of yours down and see if my apps work for you OK."
I do bottom out most of the game options and this does make a big difference
Thank you for your help Mate
Darren
KnightsCross

[morttheslayer]

G'day Mate:
Tasks left running are:18 in number

rundle32.exe 4,256K
rundle32.exe 4,192K
svchost.exe 3,692K
SixEngine.exe 18,460K
This app is specifically for my Asus Motherboard high performance setting!
so N/A for you
explorer.exe 20,368K
svchost.exe 2,752K
svchost.exe 16,276K
svchost.exe 4,068K
taskmgr.exe 4,292K
svchost.exe 3,344K
nvsvc32.exe 4,704K
Isass.exe 1,044K
services.exe 3,132K
winlogon.exe 2,708K
csrss.exe 3,028K
smss.exe 388K
System 240K
System Idle Process System 28K


This works for me - ignore SixEngine as said

All the best - Mort

[KnightsCross]

Thank you Mort
will give this a go and let you know how I go
Do you raise you TvsT processor setting ? mine is set "below normal"
Darren
KnightsCross