Command Room lag on GWX 2.0

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sirkam

Thanks . I'll unistall the Merged campaign. I realized myself that the new ocenan waves have a "blank" zones than the older ones can't have.
And Can i activate the orange position icon that still missing?

Welcome aboard Sirkam

I'm not sure if your queury for the orange icon (UMark.tga) has been answered. Just in case your not yet sorted, here is a link to it:

http://files.filefront.com/UMarktga/.../fileinfo.html

Download it and copy and paste it into: C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\GWX 2\data\Misc.....overwriting any files if prompted

[Turm]

Originally Posted by snwcrsh

Excuse my ignorance, but what is AF & AA (anti aliasing?) and where do I change that?

They are normally changed in the advanced section of your graphics drivers, or sometimes from the icon in your system tray near the clock if there is one, but basically in a non-technical sense:

AA = anti-aliasing = smoothing of pixels on the screen around [usually] 3D objects, to remove the 'stepped' appearance
AF = anisotropic filtering = improves the clarity of textures on a surface when viewed from shallow angles, preventing it becoming too blurry

For more details and some example images check here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_aliasing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisotropic_filtering


Right, now all the chores are done I'm off to tinker with SH3 and graphics settings.

[Sirkam]

Thanks Jimbuna .

[Jimbuna]

Your welcome

[Thomas Ravick]

GVX 2.0 is extremely slow. It is nice and decent but crashes all the time. Game became very unstable especially when you attack ships in convoy or in port. There is no fun waiting 10-15 min to load the game up. All improvements are great but game just does not run properly. I spent around £2000 for my laptop and I am quite experienced using it. This game just does not work for me and I rather play it with its latest original patch Mediterranean than any GVX add-ons. I got 27 patrols so far.

Best regards,
Tom R

[Penelope_Grey]

Your computer obviously can't handle GWX.

Pity. My laptop runs it perfectly.:hmm:

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by Thomas Ravick

GVX 2.0 is extremely slow. It is nice and decent but crashes all the time. Game became very unstable especially when you attack ships in convoy or in port. There is no fun waiting 10-15 min to load the game up. All improvements are great but game just does not run properly. I spent around £2000 for my laptop and I am quite experienced using it. This game just does not work for me and I rather play it with its latest original patch Mediterranean than any GVX add-ons. I got 27 patrols so far.

If you have a copy of SH3 & the MED expansion ( ) and then put GWX over it, it will crash all the time.

If it's just a case of system instability after correctly loading GWX, increase your paging file (aka Virtual RAM).

It's all very good saying you spent £2000 on a laptop but what's the specs? It's quite easy to buy a laptop for that much but monetary value is not an indication system resources.

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard Thomas

£2000 for a laptop and a preference for the Med add-on eh....I admire your candor

[Sailor Steve]

Thomas Ravick, WELCOME ABOARD!

I was going to post a quote from the SHIII manual about laptop cards not being supported, but some people do run the game quite well, including, from PG's example, GWX.

I have a Radeon 9600 card, but only 512MB of RAM, of which only 256MB is cached. Some graphics mods reduce my game to an unacceptable 12 FPM or less, but normally I get 30, even in GWX's harbors. My game also loads in 5-7 minutes, which is long but I can live with it. I also get extreme lag and jerkiness in the control room, but only for the first couple of minutes after the game starts. Once everything is loaded I can play it without complaints.

My upgrade is just around the corner, though.

[Thomas Ravick]

Hi guys,

Once again I would like to say that GVX 2.0 is great because it brings lots of things that do not exist in original game. It works but the time you spend on waiting is ridicules. I tried to study this game against U-boats by Clair Blair and other works related to WWII. I myself missed lots of things in SSIII and was always wonder how stupid developer was. Add-on is great but not professional and not fully integrated into an original game. Idea is good but still everything slows down dramatically. Maybe one day someone will realise that there is a need to create a remake SS5. Maybe then player will be able to shoot survivors or take prisoners or just help them. Germans did it few times and on the Pacific killing survivors was a rule against crazy Japes. Will see what happens next. I am sorry GVX 2.0 sucks. Aces of the Deep was far better than the original SS3.

Best regards,
Tom

[Sailor Steve]

The long loading times happen because of SHIII's design, which wasn't really the fault of the developers either, because they probably had no idea how much the modders were going to try to add. They learned from their mistakes, though, and SH4 has divided up the way things load, so it's faster, and with the U-boat Add-On out it won't be much time before SH4 has a full Atlantic u-boat campaign as well, along with its better graphics and crew management.

I'm sorry GWX sucks for you as well, but it doesn't suck for me, so I don't sympathize too much.

[Jimbuna]

GVX may well....'suck'. But I'm confident GWX doesn't

[Marko_Ramius]

Hi Thomas,

Really, you should buy a decent rig, and you will see that SH3 GWX doesn't sucks

If the mod doesn't run well on your machine, i'm sorry, really. But please, be kind to admit what really sucks ..


Anyway, Welcome on board

[Sirkam]

Welcome aboard comrade.
What are your specs?
SH3+GWX2.0 runs fine for me (I have a P4 3,2Ghz LGA775; 2Gb RAM DDR400 and a GF 7600GT 256Mb).
The loading time is normal because the game have a lot of ships, aircraft, subs, the campaign upgrades, etc...).
Maybe...Did you upgrade your video drivers?

[Azrael Valedhel]

£2000? It's a heck lot of money... My rig is hardly worth 1/4 of this sum (pc, not a laptop) and SHIII+GWX2.1 is working like a charm (besides "never-ending" loading times^^ But at least I have the time to make myself a tea (or coffee even better, as I use my pc mostly at night).

You really should try it out on some other hardware, it's far better than stock SHIII overall. Are you sure you installed it "the proper" way? Also:

If you have a copy of SH3 & the MED expansion ( ) and then put GWX over it, it will crash all the time.

If it's just a case of system instability after correctly loading GWX, increase your paging file (aka Virtual RAM).

It's all very good saying you spent £2000 on a laptop but what's the specs? It's quite easy to buy a laptop for that much but monetary value is not an indication system resources.

I don't know much about the Med expansion, but the GWX instalation notes are pretty much simple about the version - "vanilla" SHIII installation patched to 1.4b. So I would guess it's the expansion that is incompatible with GWX mod is causing trouble.
All other quoted statements are true, in the meaning, you could have troubles 'cause of not enough page file size, or because your laptop is overprised (or it's great, but not that great ). As for me, I wouldn't buy a laptop for playing any game, for working or surf the net while in travel - yes, but playing games? Noo...
But what do I know, I'm just a landratte

Btw, I never experienced Command Room lag... Yes, in harbour after loading save game its a pain for a few seconds, but when all the objects are loaded to memory then its okay.