Advice re wolves of steel

[Shibby]

Hi All,

I gave wolves of steel a go and found it a little difficult to be fully confident with getting it installed. It seemed to work ok but I think there's just too much in it for me at this time.

For me I'm actually reasonably happy with the majority of the vanilla game on 100% realism with two exceptions.

1. The stadimeter: What is going on with the stadimeter in the vanilla game? Sometimes it works if you take the range off the funnel, sometimes its off by several hundred meters. What can I do about this?

2. Diving: My boat dives but once it gets to a certain depth, say 200m it wont level out and it wont surface. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong.

My big thing with wolves of steel is the reduction in time compression, I don't want to wait as long as it takes even at 512 compression to move long distances. However, the manual targeting in it looks awesome (particularly as it seems to work). Is there a simple fix to the stadimeter and diving I can find?

[Saintaw]

Hi Shibby,

I'm sort of a noob too, but I'd consider trying the Wots again, editing the time compression values is quite easy.

Have a look in C:\My Documents\SH5\data\cfg and open main.cfg with a text editor, edit the values in these lines (Mine are already edited as you can see)

[TIME COMPRESSION]
; The first value is the default one, the second value is used when 'travel mode' is activated.
; The two values should be separated by a comma.
; If only one value is specified, that value is used for both default and travel mode.
TimeStop=0
RealTime=1
LandProximity=1,64
CriticalDamage=1
CrewEfficiency=512
AirEnemyDetected=1,512
SoundEffects=4
CharacterAnim=32
FriendDetected=512
EnemyDetected=64,512
RadioReport=512
Particles=32
PrayState=1
HunterState=1
3DRender=512
Maximum=2048

At least with wots, you'll be able to use manual diveplanes at lower depths.

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi Shibby
Ok, so your not Einstein, but have you asked for any help before abandoning TWOS?
What part of the installation do you not understand?
We are a helpful community here to answer questions.
Saintaw has shown you how to adjust your Time Compression.
You will not get a better experience of SH5 than with TWOS.
The stock game is full of all kinds of and glitches which will leave you frustrated and possibly giving up SH5 altogether.
Peter

[hauangua]

Originally Posted by Saintaw

Hi Shibby,

I'm sort of a noob too, but I'd consider trying the Wots again, editing the time compression values is quite easy.

Have a look in C:\My Documents\SH5\data\cfg and open main.cfg with a text editor, edit the values in these lines (Mine are already edited as you can see)

[TIME COMPRESSION]
; The first value is the default one, the second value is used when 'travel mode' is activated.
; The two values should be separated by a comma.
; If only one value is specified, that value is used for both default and travel mode.
TimeStop=0
RealTime=1
LandProximity=1,64
CriticalDamage=1
CrewEfficiency=512
AirEnemyDetected=1,512
SoundEffects=4
CharacterAnim=32
FriendDetected=512
EnemyDetected=64,512
RadioReport=512
Particles=32
PrayState=1
HunterState=1
3DRender=512
Maximum=2048

At least with wots, you'll be able to use manual diveplanes at lower depths.

Hi mate
I wanted just remember ...Increasing TC is possible but this can cause instability of TWoS... not forgot!!
About that Vecko write ( mainly page of TWoS ):
"Max TC is limited to x512 for stability reasons, although I can not recommend anything higher than x256 in areas with dense air and sea traffic (Baltic, coastal waters...)."

[Saintaw]

I am aware of that, but playtime sessions are sometimes not as long as I would want them to be, rest assured I mainly only use max TC when transiting in open waters (Long stretches, ie between Wilhelmshaven and Scotland)

I do remember that about 80% of my demise in stock SH5 was due to TC

[maillemaker]

2. Diving: My boat dives but once it gets to a certain depth, say 200m it wont level out and it wont surface. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong.

This is one of my biggest gripes of WoS. One of the mods is past 180 meters the Chief of the Boat becomes stupid and cannot maintain depth - you have to do it manually by manually working the dive planes and at least slow-ahead speed. I really wish they would un-nerf this.

My big thing with wolves of steel is the reduction in time compression, I don't want to wait as long as it takes even at 512 compression to move long distances.

If you deviate from the stock time compression values that WoS recommends, you are pretty much guaranteed a crash. In fact even with the recommended TC settings you may crash at 512. The SH5 engine is simply over-taxed with all the mods in WoS and if you hit a large convoy or any other heavy rendering exercise at high TC it will crash the game. Even 512 is risky with some large convoys. My advice: stick with the recommended TC settings and save often.

Steve

[vdr1981]

Originally Posted by maillemaker

If you deviate from the stock time compression values that WoS recommends, you are pretty much guaranteed a crash. In fact even with the recommended TC settings you may crash at 512. The SH5 engine is simply over-taxed with all the mods in WoS and if you hit a large convoy or any other heavy rendering exercise at high TC it will crash the game. Even 512 is risky with some large convoys. My advice: stick with the recommended TC settings and save often.

Steve

This problem has been fixed and it's almost non present in latest TWoS versions...No CTDs in my game even with "non-recommended" TC settings.