"easier" Lazy Watch Officer fix?

prowler3 · 02-06-21, 10:19 PM

See...see how stupidly crazy all this is? Bah...Humbug!

I'll be looking for the 21st century sub sim...and saving my sanity by not trying to make SH3 work.

John Pancoast · 02-06-21, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by prowler3

See...see how stupidly crazy all this is? Bah...Humbug!

I'll be looking for the 21st century sub sim...and saving my sanity by not trying to make SH3 work.

It's actually not that hard. But you jumped into the deep end of the pool right off the bat by throwing a handful or two of mods together expecting them to work, while not knowing anything about any of them.
If you want to get going, simply apply GWX to a SH3 1.4b install. It can really be that easy.
Anyway, best of luck with any future subsuming endeavors.

3catcircus · 02-07-21, 12:35 PM

It likely won't help you now, but my advice (assuming you have a goodly-sized hard drive):

Install a bare SH3 install and then use something like SH3 Front End to copy new installs.

I currently have the following:

C:\SilentHunterIII-Base\
C:\SilentHunterIII-GWA\
C:\SilentHunterIII-GWX\
C:SilentHunterIII-NYGM\
C:SilentHunterIII-WAC\

The first is my clean install - just installed and run once to set up the savegame directory.

I then used SH3FE (and I'm sure there are other methods to multicopy also) new games for GWX with alternate flotillas and the ARB Mod, GWX with the TKSS U-Boats and MaGUI mod, NYGM, and WAC5.2. After the copy, you just apply the 4GB patch and the H.sie fix (with only the lazy watchofficer fix selected) to each game.

Your "base" install never gets touched other than to copy to a new directory.

The only oddball amongst them is LSH since it uses its own installer.

02-06-21, 10:19 PM	#1
prowler3 XO Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Colorado, for now. Any RED State, ASAP. Posts: 401 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	See...see how stupidly crazy all this is? Bah...Humbug! I'll be looking for the 21st century sub sim...and saving my sanity by not trying to make SH3 work.

02-07-21, 12:35 PM	#3
3catcircus Grey Wolf Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 979 Downloads: 256 Uploads: 0	It likely won't help you now, but my advice (assuming you have a goodly-sized hard drive): Install a bare SH3 install and then use something like SH3 Front End to copy new installs. I currently have the following: C:\SilentHunterIII-Base\ C:\SilentHunterIII-GWA\ C:\SilentHunterIII-GWX\ C:SilentHunterIII-NYGM\ C:SilentHunterIII-WAC\ The first is my clean install - just installed and run once to set up the savegame directory. I then used SH3FE (and I'm sure there are other methods to multicopy also) new games for GWX with alternate flotillas and the ARB Mod, GWX with the TKSS U-Boats and MaGUI mod, NYGM, and WAC5.2. After the copy, you just apply the 4GB patch and the H.sie fix (with only the lazy watchofficer fix selected) to each game. Your "base" install never gets touched other than to copy to a new directory. The only oddball amongst them is LSH since it uses its own installer.