Omg Rough Two Weeks

Laufen zum Ziel · 01-12-09, 03:35 PM

Like all of you I waited for GOLD with a happy heart.

Finally the day arrived, 12/26, and I DL'ed Gold to a storage drive
and cleaned all traces of SHIII off of my C (Win XP) drive.

I then reloaded virgin SHIII (Direct2Drive)1.4 patched
back on to my C drive.

With joy in my heart I started the Gold DL and had a fatal
Disk crash (not gold's fault). Panic, what too do, what too do.

In a Gold induced panic I contacted Alienware (I have an
Alienware gaming machine). After 4 hours, and 3 scotch & sodas, with
one of their agents (at least one hour trying to understand what
lingo they were speaking) we reloaded to Xp & then Vista
upgrade. Great. Gold here I come.

Not a chance. As we were loading drivers from a support disk
there was a big explosion (like a deck gun) and my optical drive
blew along with the support disk. DID (just like my patrols).

Alienware sent me a new optic drive and drivers disk which arrived
on 01/11. Called Alienware after installing the optic drive (same
drill as above) and we installed drivers. Thank Gold all went well.

I reloaded SHIII and then GWX gold & Commander to Vista without a
problem. I then loaded a ton of goody mods via JSGM without a
problem.

My first patrol (peace time) I explored all the great additions to GWX.
My second patrol was wartime and I sunk 8 merchants and one
tug boat.

OMG - what a great GWX development team we have. I also use Poul's
sound mod & love the realisim it adds.

After two bottles of scotch & an almost divorce because I became
a brute to everyone I am now well into GWX Gold.

meduza · 01-12-09, 03:48 PM

Nice to have you back on duty, Herr Kaleun.

Good hunting!

GoldenRivet · 01-12-09, 03:52 PM

hooray!!!

nikbear · 01-12-09, 04:23 PM

Glad it all worked out in the end,quite a tail LzZ,quite fond of a drop of scotch myself

Ping Panther · 01-12-09, 04:27 PM

Quote:

OMG - what a great GWX development team we have. I also use Poul's
sound mod & love the realisim it adds.

I must agree with you, Poul's sounds are some of the best on SH3. He has a special skill for the audio effects stuff.

cerror · 01-12-09, 04:46 PM

Ouch! I'm glad to hear that things eventually worked out.

I feel your pain though. I have SH3 + GWX running on linux via wine. That took a lot of long hours and a few pints of brandy to get working smoothly.

Red Heat · 01-12-09, 04:50 PM

Welcome, mate...

Robert Fulton · 01-12-09, 05:10 PM

It was the soda, not the scotch.

01-12-09, 03:35 PM	#1
Laufen zum Ziel Eternal Patrol Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Hiding on the bottom Posts: 1,783 Downloads: 853 Uploads: 457	Omg Rough Two Weeks Like all of you I waited for GOLD with a happy heart. Finally the day arrived, 12/26, and I DL'ed Gold to a storage drive and cleaned all traces of SHIII off of my C (Win XP) drive. I then reloaded virgin SHIII (Direct2Drive)1.4 patched back on to my C drive. With joy in my heart I started the Gold DL and had a fatal Disk crash (not gold's fault). Panic, what too do, what too do. In a Gold induced panic I contacted Alienware (I have an Alienware gaming machine). After 4 hours, and 3 scotch & sodas, with one of their agents (at least one hour trying to understand what lingo they were speaking) we reloaded to Xp & then Vista upgrade. Great. Gold here I come. Not a chance. As we were loading drivers from a support disk there was a big explosion (like a deck gun) and my optical drive blew along with the support disk. DID (just like my patrols). Alienware sent me a new optic drive and drivers disk which arrived on 01/11. Called Alienware after installing the optic drive (same drill as above) and we installed drivers. Thank Gold all went well. I reloaded SHIII and then GWX gold & Commander to Vista without a problem. I then loaded a ton of goody mods via JSGM without a problem. My first patrol (peace time) I explored all the great additions to GWX. My second patrol was wartime and I sunk 8 merchants and one tug boat. OMG - what a great GWX development team we have. I also use Poul's sound mod & love the realisim it adds. After two bottles of scotch & an almost divorce because I became a brute to everyone I am now well into GWX Gold. __________________ RIP Laufen zum Ziel

01-12-09, 03:48 PM	#2
meduza Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: on patrol Posts: 1,035 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	Nice to have you back on duty, Herr Kaleun. Good hunting! __________________

01-12-09, 03:52 PM	#3
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	hooray!!! __________________

01-12-09, 04:23 PM	#4
nikbear Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Northampton,UK Posts: 1,859 Downloads: 86 Uploads: 0	Glad it all worked out in the end,quite a tail LzZ,quite fond of a drop of scotch myself __________________ 'It is not surely known when the grey wolf shall come upon the seat of the gods' Ericksmal.

01-12-09, 04:50 PM	#7
Red Heat Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Portugal Posts: 1,093 Downloads: 267 Uploads: 0	Welcome, mate... __________________ "There is three kinds of man: the living, the death, and those who are at Sea." Plato

01-12-09, 04:46 PM	#6
cerror Watch Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Wasilla, Alaska Posts: 20 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Ouch! I'm glad to hear that things eventually worked out. I feel your pain though. I have SH3 + GWX running on linux via wine. That took a lot of long hours and a few pints of brandy to get working smoothly.

01-12-09, 05:10 PM	#8
Robert Fulton Mate Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: USA Posts: 59 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	It was the soda, not the scotch.