Advice re wolves of steel

[maillemaker]

2. Diving: My boat dives but once it gets to a certain depth, say 200m it wont level out and it wont surface. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong.

This is one of my biggest gripes of WoS. One of the mods is past 180 meters the Chief of the Boat becomes stupid and cannot maintain depth - you have to do it manually by manually working the dive planes and at least slow-ahead speed. I really wish they would un-nerf this.

My big thing with wolves of steel is the reduction in time compression, I don't want to wait as long as it takes even at 512 compression to move long distances.

If you deviate from the stock time compression values that WoS recommends, you are pretty much guaranteed a crash. In fact even with the recommended TC settings you may crash at 512. The SH5 engine is simply over-taxed with all the mods in WoS and if you hit a large convoy or any other heavy rendering exercise at high TC it will crash the game. Even 512 is risky with some large convoys. My advice: stick with the recommended TC settings and save often.

Steve

[vdr1981]

Originally Posted by maillemaker

If you deviate from the stock time compression values that WoS recommends, you are pretty much guaranteed a crash. In fact even with the recommended TC settings you may crash at 512. The SH5 engine is simply over-taxed with all the mods in WoS and if you hit a large convoy or any other heavy rendering exercise at high TC it will crash the game. Even 512 is risky with some large convoys. My advice: stick with the recommended TC settings and save often.

Steve

This problem has been fixed and it's almost non present in latest TWoS versions...No CTDs in my game even with "non-recommended" TC settings.

[Shibby]

There isn't any part of the installation which I don't understand. I followed the instructions to the letter. It seemed to install correctly, however the Generic Patcher did not give me any opportunity to double click TWoS 2.0_Snapshot.gps when I restored snapshot. As I say it seems to be running correctly but I don't know why this might be.

Anyway, other than this I'm using WoS and yea you're all right, its fantastic. I no longer feel the need to increase the time compression since there is enough to do even when you're traveling from A-B to keep it entertaining.

But yea I would like to know what I'm missing about this generic patcher, I've had two goes at activating it now. To be clear, I've used the correct file directory and the files which need to be backed up have all presented exactly as they should. But restoring snapshot does nothing.

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi Shibby
When the patcher is installed all the patches are red disabled.
By opening your patcher you should see both red and blue patches meaning that your gps snapshot file restored correctly.
Peter

[Shibby]

Is the patcher something I should be using regularly? I didn't see any change in colour, only the files which presented after pressing enter about 20 times.

I'll just keep using WoS because as yet I can't see anything which isn't working. If it suddenly has issues I guess I'll do a full reinstall.

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi Shibby

I didn't see any change in colour, only the files which presented after pressing enter about 20 times.

After pressing 43 times you should see the 9 patchers.
At this point all of those 9 patchers containing the patches will all be red disabled.
Restore snapshot takes you to the Snapshot folder where the TWOS gps file is.
Clicking on this file 2 times enables the patches that need to be enabled (Blue).
You also get a confirmation prompt that the Restore has been done successfully.
Opening the 9 patchers you will then see which patches have been changed to enabled.
You do not need to touch the patcher again unless you wish to change the Map tools colors.
Peter

[Shibby]

It must've worked then as everything is functioning just fine.

Now I just need to find some merchant ships, the eastern coast of England seems to be inhabited only by destroyers and patrol boats.