[REL] The Game Fixes Only Mod

Originally Posted by Dogfish40

I also think that the order that they are activated is going to be important in that there are quite a few shared files, more than I thought there would be. So it's probably going to be up to the player and his computer as to which order works better.

well to each his own but for the most part GFO should always go first because you want to make sure you get everything out of the mod you are adding to it. otherwise GFO will replace files from that mod with its own mostly stock ones. an example of this is you may keep GFO rain by doing that while losing several environmental adjustments intended for the game by ISE. just saying you could be missing visual things from ISE you just arent noticing yet.

if you dont mind would you PM me a list of the files ISE shares with GFO so i could try and figure out what might bo lost without a ISE patch? thanks

[Dogfish40]

Originally Posted by Webster

well to each his own but for the most part GFO should always go first because you want to make sure you get everything out of the mod you are adding to it. otherwise GFO will replace files from that mod with its own mostly stock ones. an example of this is you may keep GFO rain by doing that while losing several environmental adjustments intended for the game by ISE. just saying you could be missing visual things from ISE you just arent noticing yet.

if you dont mind would you PM me a list of the files ISE shares with GFO so i could try and figure out what might bo lost without a ISE patch? thanks

Sorry,... Reverse that. Yes I tried them both ways and I am using GFO first. I remember that my thnking was to protect GFO, I then found that it does appear better to keep GFO first and so that is how I left it.
Thanks
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[Dogfish40]

Still on this subject...Is GFO compatible with Pacific Environment 4 ??
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Originally Posted by Dogfish40

Still on this subject...Is GFO compatible with Pacific Environment 4 ??
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wait,... what??

i thought YOU were testing this already.

as i said many times before the smaller rain in gfo will not work if PE4 or ENV 5 is used (i provided a patch to fix it for real environments)

its a very minor detail you may not even notice but thats the only conflict with those environmental mods, now as i understand it the ISE mod goes way beyond the environmental files and makes other changes so i dont know what conflicts exist with that mod and gfo

hope that answers your questions

[Dogfish40]

Originally Posted by Webster

wait,... what??

i thought YOU were testing this already.

as i said many times before the smaller rain in gfo will not work if PE4 or ENV 5 is used (i provided a patch to fix it for real environments)

its a very minor detail you may not even notice but thats the only conflict with those environmental mods, now as i understand it the ISE mod goes way beyond the environmental files and makes other changes so i dont know what conflicts exist with that mod and gfo

hope that answers your questions

LOL, No I tested the Improved Stock Environment_v3, which works fine. I was wondering about PE4 because of the camera features, but I'll load it up.
Sorry for the redundant questions, it's just that SH4 mods are a bit cranky at times and I don't want anything messing with the GFO stuff 'cause it works really well so far.
Thanks again.
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Originally Posted by Dogfish40

LOL, No I tested the Improved Stock Environment_v3, which works fine. I was wondering about PE4 because of the camera features, but I'll load it up.
Sorry for the redundant questions, it's just that SH4 mods are a bit cranky at times and I don't want anything messing with the GFO stuff 'cause it works really well so far.
Thanks again.
D40

ok well if it has a camera dat then you will lose the fix for the closer centered radar and sonar views as well as the scope zoom levels and free cam very close up views. (there may be some other visual element i cant think of right now)

i dont think its that big a deal for you but if you dont want to lose those you can just remove the camera dat file from PE4 and then it shouldnt be a problem, just check the PE4 read me and see what changes he made to the camera views to know how important it is. im almost posative PE$ doesnt need the cameras dat to work properly

keep in mind im saying all this just from memory since its been over 2 years since i fooled with the game files

[Dogfish40]

Originally Posted by Webster

ok well if it has a camera dat then you will lose the fix for the closer centered radar and sonar views as well as the scope zoom levels and free cam very close up views. (there may be some other visual element i cant think of right now)

i dont think its that big a deal for you but if you dont want to lose those you can just remove the camera dat file from PE4 and then it shouldnt be a problem, just check the PE4 read me and see what changes he made to the camera views to know how important it is. im almost posative PE$ doesnt need the cameras dat to work properly

keep in mind im saying all this just from memory since its been over 2 years since i fooled with the game files

Well, it turned out for the worse in this case. After loading the PE4 files 1, 2,4 and 5, then placing my other go to fav mods in, I loaded up my game and had that fire/smoke thing that follows the ship around immediately. I don't have any idea right now if it was one of the other mods causing it, it may be that I missed a conflict warning someplace from PE4. So, I'm going back to my first Environment choice for a time until I can try something else.
Now everything is back to normal. All this really started because I want to see more sea foam on the water. I remember seeing it at one time, now I'm not and I can't figure out why. But the water doesn't look very much like ocean water without lots of salt suds. As of now the crew is scared 'cause the skipper wants to waterski, they hate that.
Thanks for the help Webster! It's all good.
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