IcyWaters SH3 Log

IcyWaters · 08-07-19, 04:03 PM

Just starting this thread as some sort of log of my upcoming SH3 experience. Since RL has a habit of coming up and overwhelming me at times, and with a new job coming up, I hope this log will allow me to pick up where I left off. That, and to share with the community and maybe get constructive feedback.

With so many UBoat videos flooding my YouTube recommendations, I got to miss my old sim days and after a painful playtest of UBoat, I decided to go back to the SH series and even better, go back to the very sim that started this for me, SH3! I have very many memorable hours of stalking convoys, killing ships, and pissing myself trying to avoid the resulting punishment from the escorts.

I think I played SH3 close after it was released, so 2005-2006 or so and IIRC, no mods. I also did not know 90% of what I was doing, so I hope this will be an even better experience 14 years later. I'm greatly enjoying watching Wolfpack345's YouTube videos and I really like the fact that SH3 with some mods still looks good after all this time!

I just plan to start out with JSGME, SH3 Commander, and GWX for now, keeping mods to a minimum unless there are other mods that you guys would strongly recommend. I just finished a very confusing issue regarding fullscreen settings with SH3, so I hope this mod application process would go much better and smoother.

Fingers crossed for this install!

IcyWaters · 08-07-19, 06:48 PM

OOoooookay....

Install went fine and even added on the SH3_XPSP2_Res_Fix_for_1.4b but that doesn't seem to fix anything, as far as I can tell, everything is still low res. I tried the ARB WideGui 1920x1080 V3.1 mod but now my game won't load into the 3D world, just on the 2D UI menu screens.

This is what I don't like about doing this.... I'll probably burn out before actually playing the game, just figuring out how to bring it to the year 2019 without crashing.

Dogtail2 · 08-16-19, 03:22 PM

Try the 4Gb patch.

08-07-19, 04:03 PM	#1
IcyWaters Mate Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 54 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	IcyWaters SH3 Log Just starting this thread as some sort of log of my upcoming SH3 experience. Since RL has a habit of coming up and overwhelming me at times, and with a new job coming up, I hope this log will allow me to pick up where I left off. That, and to share with the community and maybe get constructive feedback. With so many UBoat videos flooding my YouTube recommendations, I got to miss my old sim days and after a painful playtest of UBoat, I decided to go back to the SH series and even better, go back to the very sim that started this for me, SH3! I have very many memorable hours of stalking convoys, killing ships, and pissing myself trying to avoid the resulting punishment from the escorts. I think I played SH3 close after it was released, so 2005-2006 or so and IIRC, no mods. I also did not know 90% of what I was doing, so I hope this will be an even better experience 14 years later. I'm greatly enjoying watching Wolfpack345's YouTube videos and I really like the fact that SH3 with some mods still looks good after all this time! I just plan to start out with JSGME, SH3 Commander, and GWX for now, keeping mods to a minimum unless there are other mods that you guys would strongly recommend. I just finished a very confusing issue regarding fullscreen settings with SH3, so I hope this mod application process would go much better and smoother. Fingers crossed for this install!

08-07-19, 06:48 PM	#2
IcyWaters Mate Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 54 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	OOoooookay.... Install went fine and even added on the SH3_XPSP2_Res_Fix_for_1.4b but that doesn't seem to fix anything, as far as I can tell, everything is still low res. I tried the ARB WideGui 1920x1080 V3.1 mod but now my game won't load into the 3D world, just on the 2D UI menu screens. This is what I don't like about doing this.... I'll probably burn out before actually playing the game, just figuring out how to bring it to the year 2019 without crashing.

08-16-19, 03:22 PM	#3
Dogtail2 Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2019 Location: Great Britain Posts: 7 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Try the 4Gb patch.