[TEC] SH5.exe patches to fix bugs and add functionality - Page 30

volodya61 · 05-21-12, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

V1.0.25.0 released. See post #1

This version fixes the hang problem with the torpedo dud patch.

NOTE: DISABLE ALL PATCHES WITH OLD PATCHER BEFORE APPLYING NEW PATCHES WITH NEW PATCHER! THIS APPLIES ONLY TO PATCHES RELATED TO SHSIM.ACT AND SHCOLLISIONS.ACT

Thank you very much!

TheDarkWraith · 05-21-12, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by volodya61

Thank you very much!

Let me know if you still have any problems with it

THE_MASK · 05-21-12, 05:24 PM

Could you redownload it please . I cannot access the file .

volodya61 · 05-21-12, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by sober

Could you redownload it please . I cannot access the file .

me too.

TheDarkWraith · 05-21-12, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by sober

Could you redownload it please . I cannot access the file .

Freakin gamefront is always having issues

I posted an Alternate link at post #1

Someone just give me confirmation that everything is ok with this now. Everything works for me perfectly but I need to know it works perfectly for you all also

volodya61 · 05-21-12, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

Someone just give me confirmation that everything is ok with this now. Everything works for me perfectly but I need to know it works perfectly for you all also

Thank you TDW!

Everything works fine!

Brains already shut down.. for the first time didn't saw the fifth change and thought that nothing works.. reinstalled the game again..

already 5:30 AM, It's time to sleep

Thanks again..

THE_MASK · 05-21-12, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by volodya61

Thank you TDW!

Everything works fine!

Brains already shut down.. for the first time didn't saw the fifth change and thought that nothing works.. reinstalled the game again..

already 5:30 AM, It's time to sleep

Thanks again..

You can call me the doctor . I jumped ahead in time , its 11:45 AM here .

TheDarkWraith · 05-21-12, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by volodya61

Thank you TDW!

Everything works fine!

I'll take that as the hang/freeze problem is fixed then

I have noticed that even though I set the duds to 100% I still get non-duds occassionally. I'll have to do more digging in SHSim.act to figure out why. I'm almost 100% certain it has to do with the code that gets the random number. The code calls MSVCR90.rand to get a random number. It then converts the value returned into a single-precision floating point number. Then it multiplies that number by what appears to be a conversion factor. Everywhere throughout SH5.exe and all the other .act files when MSVCR90.rand is called it's return value is always multiplied by this conversion factor. It's this conversion factor that throws me for a loop. I don't understand where they got it's value from. I need to figure out how MSVCR90.rand returns the random number (what registers it affects). I know EAX is affected and it appears ECX is also...

EDIT:
Found an old reference book of mine that gave me the info needed: rand returns the random value in EAX (31 bit number - high bit is always 0). The call to rand always trashes the ECX register - that's why ECX is always affected.

31 bits gives a max integer number of 4294967295. They are multiplying the random number returned by 0.003051851 (this value seems to change with every game load). What I need to do is scale the max 31 bit number to 100. So 4294967295 * x = 100. Do a little algebra....x = ~0.0000000232831...

EDIT2:

well MSVCR90.rand acts a little differently than my reference book says. The game always take the value in EAX and converts that to a floating point number. The high 16 bits of EAX are always 0 thus the maximum integer value is 65535. So 65535 * x = 100. Algebra says x = 0.0015259021896696. Time for a new version of the patcher again!

Rongel · 05-22-12, 12:10 AM

Great news TDW! Will test this in the evening!

The dud probability is a strange one, it really doesn't follow the percentage values in torpedo.sim. Of course it gives some direction, but like in previous games, we have put the percentage really high if we wan't to see duds.

But this sounds just great, thanks!

TheDarkWraith · 05-22-12, 01:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Rongel

Great news TDW! Will test this in the evening!

The dud probability is a strange one, it really doesn't follow the percentage values in torpedo.sim. Of course it gives some direction, but like in previous games, we have put the percentage really high if we wan't to see duds.

But this sounds just great, thanks!

I see why the dud probability is a 'strange one'. They load in the % chance for dud as read from .sim file, then they multiply it by some float value, then they multiply it by another float value, then they finally multiply it by another float value (looks to be related to some kind of skill). After all that multiplication it's no longer near it's original value (it's much less)

That's why I'm changing it! When I'm done with it:
- it will read in % chance for dud as read from sim file (value is between 0 and 100)
- it will get a random number
- it will scale that random number to be between 0 and 100
- it will compare % chance for dud to scaled random number to determine if dud or not

That is how it should've been done in the first place

THE_MASK · 05-22-12, 02:13 AM

The only random numbers i have seen are in .
Silent Hunter 5\data\UPCDataGE\UserPlayerSettings
Documents\SH5\data\cfg\UPCInitial\UserPlayerSettin gs

misha1967 · 05-22-12, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

NOTE: DISABLE ALL PATCHES WITH OLD PATCHER BEFORE APPLYING NEW PATCHES WITH NEW PATCHER! THIS APPLIES ONLY TO PATCHES RELATED TO SHSIM.ACT AND SHCOLLISIONS.ACT

Now how exactly do you do that, other than uninstalling and reinstalling SH5?

Reece · 05-22-12, 04:09 AM

Unfortunately the "how to use patcher" picture links are dead!

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=7773

col_Kurtz · 05-22-12, 04:46 AM

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Originally Posted by misha1967

Now how exactly do you do that, other than uninstalling and reinstalling SH5?

Maybe I`m wrong.
Open by old SH5patcher and set these values (True) to False = Not patched?
After this try to patch with newest one, again from False to True?

THE_MASK · 05-22-12, 04:50 AM

double click on the sh5patcher\file\open\TDW_SH5_Patches.s5p
select path to sh5exe ending with silent hunter 5
click ok
make all False
do the same for all the patches

Extract the new patcher to your sh5 main game folder overwriting the old patcher . Repeat the process to enable true on all the patches . Copy the blue exe icon (4.17mb) to your desktop and launch from that .

05-22-12, 04:09 AM	#448
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 32,903 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	Unfortunately the "how to use patcher" picture links are dead! http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=7773 __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

05-21-12, 05:24 PM	#438
THE_MASK Ace of the deep . Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,226 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 73	Could you redownload it please . I cannot access the file .

05-22-12, 12:10 AM	#444
Rongel Grey Wolf Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Finland Posts: 859 Downloads: 174 Uploads: 0	Great news TDW! Will test this in the evening! The dud probability is a strange one, it really doesn't follow the percentage values in torpedo.sim. Of course it gives some direction, but like in previous games, we have put the percentage really high if we wan't to see duds. But this sounds just great, thanks!

05-22-12, 02:13 AM	#446
THE_MASK Ace of the deep . Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,226 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 73	The only random numbers i have seen are in . Silent Hunter 5\data\UPCDataGE\UserPlayerSettings Documents\SH5\data\cfg\UPCInitial\UserPlayerSettin gs

05-22-12, 04:50 AM	#450
THE_MASK Ace of the deep . Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,226 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 73	double click on the sh5patcher\file\open\TDW_SH5_Patches.s5p select path to sh5exe ending with silent hunter 5 click ok make all False do the same for all the patches Extract the new patcher to your sh5 main game folder overwriting the old patcher . Repeat the process to enable true on all the patches . Copy the blue exe icon (4.17mb) to your desktop and launch from that .