krash's Learnifying Thread :P

Fubar2Niner · 03-04-12, 12:41 PM

@all

Despite a promising start things just took a downward turn. I restarted SH3 using the same procedure as in 3) in post above. Tried taking a screenie and this time crash. However not a CTD, just a total freeze, never had this before.......

Ideas anyone?

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

Kafka BC · 03-04-12, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fubar2Niner

Despite a promising start things just took a downward turn. I restarted SH3 using the same procedure as in 3) in post above. Tried taking a screenie and this time crash. However not a CTD, just a total freeze, never had this before.......

Ideas anyone?

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

Drat!!! That is very discouraging, so close and then so far.

I'm sorry mate, I got nothing else to help you with.

Kafka BC · 03-04-12, 02:31 PM

This might be useful to someone, it is how I get Full Screen Antialiasing (FSAA) in Silent Hunter III with my NVidia video card. nHancer and other tools don't work for me.

I am using Windows XP and my video card is an 8600GT with drivers version 197.13, so I don't know if it would apply to Vista or windows 7 or the later NVidia drivers or control panel.

1. Find the NvApps.xml file in your C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder and make a backup copy just in case this this dosn't work for you.

2. Open the NvApps.xml file with Notepad and search for "Silent Hunter III" to find the profile settings.

3. Paste this line:

<PROPERTY Label="aa_feature_bits" Value="0x20000000" Default="0x20000000" Itemtype="predefined"/>

right after this line:

<PROPERTY Label="multichip_rendering_mode" Value="0x02000001" Default="0x02000001" Itemtype="predefined"/>

as in this example below

Doing this ensures that FSAA gets applied to the entire scene and has greatly improved my overall scene quality. Until I learned how to do this things just looked terrible in the distance.

This setting was taken from the settings for the "Most EA Strategy Games" and the "Command and Conquer 3" series of games settings in the NvApps.xml file. There are other "aa_feature_bits" values in the file, but I haven't tried them yet as this seems to work fine.

PS. The lines in the profile after the pasted line will probably be different than in the image above, depending on what settings you have in the NVidia control panel.

krashkart · 03-04-12, 09:15 PM

@Kafka - Added to the opening post.

@Fubar - Good effort, mate. Hopefully that nut can be cracked...

03-04-12, 02:31 PM	#3
Kafka BC Planesman Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 197 Downloads: 163 Uploads: 0	This might be useful to someone, it is how I get Full Screen Antialiasing (FSAA) in Silent Hunter III with my NVidia video card. nHancer and other tools don't work for me. I am using Windows XP and my video card is an 8600GT with drivers version 197.13, so I don't know if it would apply to Vista or windows 7 or the later NVidia drivers or control panel. 1. Find the NvApps.xml file in your C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder and make a backup copy just in case this this dosn't work for you. 2. Open the NvApps.xml file with Notepad and search for "Silent Hunter III" to find the profile settings. 3. Paste this line: <PROPERTY Label="aa_feature_bits" Value="0x20000000" Default="0x20000000" Itemtype="predefined"/> right after this line: <PROPERTY Label="multichip_rendering_mode" Value="0x02000001" Default="0x02000001" Itemtype="predefined"/> as in this example below Doing this ensures that FSAA gets applied to the entire scene and has greatly improved my overall scene quality. Until I learned how to do this things just looked terrible in the distance. This setting was taken from the settings for the "Most EA Strategy Games" and the "Command and Conquer 3" series of games settings in the NvApps.xml file. There are other "aa_feature_bits" values in the file, but I haven't tried them yet as this seems to work fine. PS. The lines in the profile after the pasted line will probably be different than in the image above, depending on what settings you have in the NVidia control panel. __________________ Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea. - Stan Rogers (1949-1983) Last edited by Kafka BC; 03-04-12 at 02:43 PM.

03-04-12, 09:15 PM	#4
krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	@Kafka - Added to the opening post. @Fubar - Good effort, mate. Hopefully that nut can be cracked... __________________ sent from my fingertips using a cheap keyboard

03-04-12, 12:41 PM	#1
Fubar2Niner Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: London. UK Posts: 4,179 Downloads: 279 Uploads: 0	@all Despite a promising start things just took a downward turn. I restarted SH3 using the same procedure as in 3) in post above. Tried taking a screenie and this time crash. However not a CTD, just a total freeze, never had this before....... Ideas anyone? Best regards. Fubar2Niner