[BUG] Tonnage bar won't fill up (what mod)

[gap]

Originally Posted by vdr1981

Because of this Gap

...

Trevally's original idea to give us "Succesful" status for certain objective regardless of scored tonnage is quite OK but it doesn't work as intended if objective deadline is skipped due to patrol ending and it will also cause CTD...When this happen, the whole original OHII concept which assumes automatically activated objectives/campaigns regardless of previous objective passed/failed status, goes out of the window. And this is the main issue with stock OHII Campaign.cfg files.

Well, maybe there's a workaround to this problem: making most objectives, especially the ones whose fullfillment is required for another objective to become accessible, overlapping and lasting to the end of the campaign.

In any case, as I noted in my previous post, campaign selection dependencies should be totally unrelated to objectives pass/fail status, and shouldnt be affected by the same problem.

What do you think?

Originally Posted by vdr1981

Don't get me wrong, I support your ideas and I like them very much but solutions for some issues just has to be found.

I know, I know. I love you too!!!

BTW: thank you very much for proposing my name into the Best of Subsim 2015 nominations thread

On a totally unrelated note: I feel TDW's work on his hardcoded patches and on his GR2 Editor hasn't been acknowledged as it deserved. I know he wasn't an active memeber during the last year and, as that, his nomination is outside the rules, but... if I propose his name anyway, are you SH5 guys ready to back me up?

[Sjizzle]

Originally Posted by gap

are you SH5 guys ready to back me up?

always gap
btw can u make me a dirty periscope mask ?

[gap]

Originally Posted by Sjizzle

always gap

Thank you mate. Any other "volunteer"

Originally Posted by Sjizzle

btw can u make me a dirty periscope mask ?

Sure.
What do you have in mind?

[Bera]

Originally Posted by MaMa

Hi Bera !

Unfortunately at the moment i can't give you a sure answer. Just to inform that my fix allow the program to work properly recording ships sunk, updating the tonnage bar and the campaign triggers and objectives as well but all campaign requirements and objective activation triggers are part of the campaign itself. If errors are present inside it, the OSI cannot compute them correctly. Establishing where the error is it's not an easy task ...

In the past i checked the original campaign and i found several bugs inside. I never played other campaigns like OH so i can't be sure of what's going on with it.

I'm away from home at the moment so i can't do an immediate check but as soon as i'm back i will check the campaign files mentioned by you for errors ...

Hi MaMa!

After reading Gap´s post above, I think that it must be related with OHII changing mission objectives (i.e, instead of sinking XX tons or XX ships I have to patrol determined area).

Personally, I´m not keen on simple tonnage objectives, but it is quite nice to see the game running more or less as it was intended to!

Kudos to you again!

[Sjizzle]

Originally Posted by gap

Thank you mate. Any other "volunteer"




Sure.
What do you have in mind?

something like this one

[gap]

Originally Posted by Sjizzle

something like this one

That's veeeery dirty LOL. For which UI/periscope mod do you need it?

[Sjizzle]

Originally Posted by gap

That's veeeery dirty LOL. For which UI/periscope mod do you need it?

TDW's UI cos i platy with sober mod list and yea it's damn dirty cos i also have a dirty mind


PS.
DRJones have no time to finish the RN for magui so i swithced to TDW's UI

[gap]

Originally Posted by Sjizzle

TDW's UI cos i platy with sober mod list

Have you enabled any of the additional periscope mods for New UI's or you just use the standard periscope masks?

Originally Posted by Sjizzle

and yea it's damn dirty cos i also have a dirty mind

You are in good company. My prescription glasses as well as my computer screen are always too dirty

Originally Posted by Sjizzle

DRJones have no time to finish the RN for magui so i swithced to TDW's UI

That's a real pity

[Sjizzle]

Originally Posted by gap

Have you enabled any of the additional periscope mods for New UI's or you just use the standard periscope masks?


That's a real pity

standard one

[THEBERBSTER]

Post #188 Campaign Fix And Working Tonnage Bar By MaMa > Pictorial Instructions How To Make It Work

Last updated 3rd November 2015

This Pictorial has been produced so that anyone without computer skills will have the benefit of having their game working correctly.

MaMa's Quick Version has been included at the end.

MaMa has found the solution to fix the broken Campaign advancements and the Missions not updating properly.
Those gamers still using the Tonnage Bar will now see the game updating correctly again on their Navigation Map.

The first thing to do is disable the Uplay Browser Patches in TDW’s Generic File Patcher (GFP).
If these Patches are already disabled then skip Pictures 1 and 2.
The patches to disable can be seen in Picture 1 in Advanced Users.
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Disable the 4 patches as showing in Picture 2 and then exit the GFP.
Picture 2


Next go to your Program (x86) folder on your C: drive.
Open the Ubisoft Game Launcher Folder Picture 3.
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Open the Data Folder Picture 4.
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Open the 3 Folder Picture 5.
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Open the OSIS Folder Picture 6
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Open the 13 Folder Picture 7.
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Right click with your mouse on the OSI Application and select to Run as Administrator Picture 8.
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You can now exit from the Program (x86) folder.

It is recommended that the following steps are done each time you want to play Silent Hunter 5.
This action should ensure that your game is continuously updated during your game play and there is less chance of any corruptions occurring.

Start your SH5 game as you would normally do Picture 9.
Default game start showing.
Picture 9


Uplay may start automatically or not depending on your settings.
If you get a windows error message then follow the instructions below how to run your Game Launcher as an Administrator.

Post #173 Ubisoft Game Launcher How To Fix It

When the game loads to the main menu Picture 10 press the Alt +
Tab keys and you will be returned to the desktop.
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Go to your Control Panel
Select Performance Information & Tools from the menu Picture 11.
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Select the Task Manager Picture 12.
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Select Advanced Tools Picture 13.
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The first process will automatically highlight.
Select the Processes Tab and then click on Show Processes From All Users Picture 14.
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Scroll with your mouse down and then click with your mouse on OSI.exe*32 to highlight it Picture 15.
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With the OSI.exe*32 highlighted right click with your mouse and you will be asked if you want to set the priority Picture 16.
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Accept Change Priority Picture 17.
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If you get the message Unable to Set Priority to Real Time click on Ok Picture 18.
It will change the setting to High where next time you can then select High instead of Real Time.
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Exit from the Control Panel.

Click on the Silent Hunter game that is being paused in the Taskbar.
Load Game Picture 19
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When you finish your game session you should notice that any of your missions that were previously showing as Pending will now show as Finished apart from the one you are currently playing.

When you have finished the game and exit back to the desktop the changes that you made in Processes earlier to the OSI.exe*32 are ended also.


MaMa's Quick Version
Disable the Uplay Browser Patches in TDW’s Generic File Patcher
Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\data\3\osis\13\OSI.exe

The only thing to do once is to set the OSI.exe file to be run with administrator rights because only in this way it can be directed from the Windows Task Manager.

After that the procedure to follow is this:
- Start Silent Hunter 5;
- When the game finishes loading and you are in the main menu go to the desktop using Alt+TAB;
- Start the Windows task manager and go to the process list;
- Find the OSI.exe process and right click on it;
- Go to "manage priority" and set it to "real time";
- The computer will ask if you want to do it, click yes. It will then tell you that it cannot enable the real time and instead it will set it to "high", that's ok, click on it;
- Close the task manager and return to the game;
- Start or load a saved game and enjoy it !

That's all ! Be aware that the OSI process is killed each time you exit the main game and it is restarted at each SH5 launch, so it is necessary to raise the priority each time. Since it takes only 30 seconds or less to make the modify i don't think it will be too difficult or long to apply .

Courtesy acknowledgement to MaMa

[vdr1981]

Nice work Peter although I think that avaerage SH player will be slightly overwhelmed when he sees gigantic post like this...

Anyone who doesn't know that Windows Task Manager can be started by simple RMB click on taskbar should better do him self a favor and stay away from modding, especially SH5 modding...

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi Vecko

You would be surprised and quite shocked at the numbers of people who play the Silent Hunter series who have very limited knowledge many of which play the stock game because that is there limit to game play.
My tutorials are made as simplistic as possible to help anybody that can achieve being able to do something that they probably thought was not possible.
With over 80,000 hits on my SH5 tutorial thread it has probably stopped a lot of repetitive posts happening.

I purposely included Mama's Quick Version for those gamers who are more knowledgeable.

Peter

[MaMa]

Many thanks for the complete step-by-step tutorial done THEBERBSTER !

I had scheduled to do one at my return from my job duty but i see you anticipated me ! Great job !

[gap]

Originally Posted by vdr1981

Anyone who doesn't know that Windows Task Manager can be started by simple RMB click on taskbar should better do him self a favor and stay away from modding, especially SH5 modding...

Thats true. We are well into the third millennium and, weird as it sounds, it is about time to admit in the teeth of Bill Gates' and Steve Jobs' affiliates, that information technology is not for everyone. As the son of a 71 years old woman owning a computer and a smartphone, I know what I am talking about

Originally Posted by THEBERBSTER

Post #188 Campaign Fix And Working Tonnage Bar By MaMa > Pictorial Instructions How To Make It Work

Well done Peter. I followed your instructions to fix my game

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi Gap

That is good news that you found the tutorial helpful.

MaMa's fix might bring back some SH5 deserters.

The big question now is of course, should the game be put back as it was originally intended by reserecting the tonnage bar?

Peter