That it! I hade it

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Snowman999

Your points are good ones, but I also think it's not that useful when the moderators' first response is "Well, I'm not getting any CTDs and my radar works."

I have NO mods installed. I installed 1.2 over 1.1, as the devs' notes indicated I should. I have a vanilla Dell with a supported video card, 2 gigs of RAM. I've defragged. I have no other software running. I have March 2007 video drivers.

Yet my SD radar will not operate. I get framerate crashes in the middle of patrols and floating mouse cursors. I get fog inside Control if fog is on. Etc.

Some of the problems people are reporting ARE due to mods, and to misunderstanding game operation, and to poorly maintained PCs. But there ARE also problems with the game. It seems more sensitive to individual rigs than any game I've seen in the XP-era.

Telling someone who is frustrated and looking for help that you personally don't have the problem isn't helpful.

That said, I too have zero patience with somebody coming here looking for help who is playing a cracked game.

I believe John was just attempting to say that putting up a rant without any further info to help does no good for anyone.

Sure, some mods are causing CTD but some of these poster with CTD fail to mention the mods or did not clean out the mods or have some wayward file of mod hanging about. Remember how finicky SH3 was when attempting a reinstall? That old folder in MY DOCUMENTS that was never deleted cause many to start drinking.

Some rigs are sensative to this game, no doubt, Stabiz is having issues. If there was anyone I want to have this game running great, Stabiz is the one. But, Stabiz is looking at his rig because he know others with the same rig are running the game fine. He has not posted a rant. He has laid his cards on the table and is asking for help. I hope he finds it.

I'm with you on the crack.

[heartc]

Originally Posted by Drokkon

My version of the game had where you used the mouse to mark the highest point of the ship just like the stadimeter. My version diffinetly had a stop watch cause the manual says that the longer you let the time go the better the reading. The manual suggested 55 seconds.

In Silent service there were none of these things but SH1 had them.

I'm sorry, but NO WAY. I have the SHICE which should be the latest version of the game. I've never seen anything like that in game nor any other references towards this other than yours now. You really got me confused now.

[Antrodemus]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

That old folder in MY DOCUMENTS that was never deleted cause many to start drinking.

So that's what caused it!

/phones booze counsellor.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Antrodemus

So that's what caused it!

/phones booze counsellor.

[KING111]

Will here’s my 2p worth
When I got the game from Amazon I thought great now I can sink some japs.
But it did not take me long to find the bugs.
So then came patch 1.1 and for me the game was still unplayable.
Then game patch 1.2 and it got better now I can play it just about?
But then looking around on here I found GWX and thought what that?
So I downloaded it installed it with the tools and dials.
Now you can stuff SH4 for the next 6 months I am playing SH3 with GWX

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by KING111

Now you can stuff SH4 for the next 6 months I am playing SH3 with GWX

That's your choice. Although SH3 with GWX is on my computer and I will continue to play it, I am playing SH4 more, so I won't be stuffing it anytime soon.

RDP

[Drokkon]

Heartc you clicked your mouse on the lines on the crosshairs that gave you the range. The stopwatch was my own I used to lock on the the target then start it.I think they suggested 55 secs and again for about 35 sec before firing. I was in error there I forgot I searched the stores till I found one.

Or maybe all I did was count the amount of lines to determine the range. I know it was fairly easy to get acurate range settings. The lock on button simulated the stopwatch. I used a real one on my desk so I wouldn't make things faster. Range never was a issue with me. I had just gotten out of the navy a little before this game was released. I played both Aces and this game at the hardest setting straight out of the box with no issues.

[Snowman999]

I believe John was just attempting to say that putting up a rant without any further info to help does no good for anyone.

We agree on this. Perhaps Neal should make it a rule that anybody reporting a crash or other show-stopper should list mods installed.

Remember how finicky SH3 was when attempting a reinstall? That old folder in MY DOCUMENTS that was never deleted cause many to start drinking.

True. But that's also a failure of design and coding. Most folks here are orders of magnitude more PC-literate than the casual gamers Ubi alledgedly is after. XP games from other publishers are turn-key. I remember QEMM and spending all day Saturday messing with batch files to load custom config.sys files, but today's gamer just won't do that. And doesn't know how.

I wonder if the Romania guys have a very limited PC inventory and if they designed for an nVidia enviro or something. I play lots of games in multiple genres, some graphically intense, others algorithm intense, and I don't see forums reporting this range of response to the same inputs on the same missions. I'm no programmer (courses but no real world experience), but I've seen it done by other houses. I just wonder if they're resource-starved in Romania (not time, but hardware.)

[John Channing]

Originally Posted by Drokkon

Heartc you clicked your mouse on the lines on the crosshairs that gave you the range. The stopwatch was my own I used to lock on the the target then start it.I think they suggested 55 secs and again for about 35 sec before firing. I was in error there I forgot I searched the stores till I found one.

It's not a question of agreeing or disagreeing. I'm not working from memory here, I am sitting here with the friggin' manual for Silent Hunter in my lap!

Again (and these are direct quotes from the manual)...

From the Silent Hunter Manual (page 32)

"Determining range without the automatic setting will only be possible on boats equiped with Radar"

and from page 33

"Speed is the most difficult to estimate" They go on to suggest that you can use the Ship ID book to enter the max speed and then guess. Finally.... "If all else fails target course and speed can be easily determined by switching the TDC from Manual to Automatic while the target is in view"

Again... no stadimeter, no stopwatch, no nuthin'!

Did I mention that this is from the Silent Hunter Manual?

JCC

[heartc]

Originally Posted by Drokkon

Heartc you clicked your mouse on the lines on the crosshairs that gave you the range.

Hell, I just fired it up in Dosbox again, and I'll be damned if I could produce anything like that. How would that work anyway? The lines on the crosshair are not enough, you would also need to enter the masthead height somehow for that to work. How did you enter and determine that for the TDC? You could not ID the ship for the TDC, and the TDC didn't even "know" whether or not it was looking at a ship when on manual. And at what power setting did you do that? 1x, 2x, 4x or 8x? I'll be damned if there was anything like that in the game. I produced an avi video a few minutes ago from in game. Problem is there's something wrong with the codec, which I will need to figure out first.

I mean no offense btw, it just feels like you told me this is the Truman Show, there are little green men on Mars and Elvis lives around next door all at the same time

[Avatar]

Also, I think people come here angry at their game/computer and dont have a listening wall to bounce off their frustrations. It's ok to get pissed, just be mindful of others.
Anyway,
joe cool

[heartc]

Oh thanks John. I was about to jump out the window, especially since there must surely be more SHI players around who didn't see anything like that either I thought. Now maybe I can forget about that avi vid. And the window.

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Snowman999

How many people under 30-YO get this joke?

Again with the negative waves so early in the morning...lol

for all the Beautiful people baby.

[John Channing]

You didn't.

It wasn't.

You aren't.

JCC


Ps These are the answers to the following questions...



Would you click on the Periscope to get range?

Was this how the Stadimeter was represented in the game?

Am I crazy?

[John Channing]

Originally Posted by Iceman

Again with the negative waves so early in the morning...lol

for all the Beautiful people baby.

"Three reverse gears and one forward. That way you can get out of trouble three times as fast as you got in it!"

JCC
Not under 30