Back in to subsims, back to being a noob with questions

Subferro · 12-16-10, 09:35 PM

Greetings all,

After getting and enjoying DW on my laptop, I decided to step back in time a little and give SH3 a shot. I'd played it before and loved it, but hadn't fired it up because I figured this laptop was a lost cause. Well, I caved and got the fully patched Starforce free edition (from the subsim store

) and downloaded GWX 3.0. Sure enough it ran!

All of my specs are fine except for the Intel Mobile Graphics adapter, but I can run it at a solid ~30 fps. After doing some research I found that my card wouldn't work for reflections

, but managed to turn off the sun, moon, and sub reflections so that I'm not getting a weird texture issue along the side of my screen. Now the only graphical thing I have issue with is the surface of the water. For some reason its really light and has very little texture to it. I'm resigned to the fact that I can't enjoy the water in all of its glory, but this just seems odd to me:

I assume this is just my computer coming up short, so I'm really just wondering if there's a less fancy, less sun glared texture that will run.

For instance, this looks pretty good to me (more texture, less glare, but I'm not sure how demanding it is compared to what I've got, I know GWX is set to be pretty compatible with lower end systems - and for that I thank you)

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1553295&postcount=8425

That ended up being longer that I thought for my first question. My other points of confusion just involve convoy hunting and stalking tactics, but I'll keep doing some forum searching before pulling those out.

Thanks a bunch guys

12-16-10, 09:35 PM	#1
Subferro Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 5 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Back in to subsims, back to being a noob with questions Greetings all, After getting and enjoying DW on my laptop, I decided to step back in time a little and give SH3 a shot. I'd played it before and loved it, but hadn't fired it up because I figured this laptop was a lost cause. Well, I caved and got the fully patched Starforce free edition (from the subsim store) and downloaded GWX 3.0. Sure enough it ran! All of my specs are fine except for the Intel Mobile Graphics adapter, but I can run it at a solid ~30 fps. After doing some research I found that my card wouldn't work for reflections, but managed to turn off the sun, moon, and sub reflections so that I'm not getting a weird texture issue along the side of my screen. Now the only graphical thing I have issue with is the surface of the water. For some reason its really light and has very little texture to it. I'm resigned to the fact that I can't enjoy the water in all of its glory, but this just seems odd to me: I assume this is just my computer coming up short, so I'm really just wondering if there's a less fancy, less sun glared texture that will run. For instance, this looks pretty good to me (more texture, less glare, but I'm not sure how demanding it is compared to what I've got, I know GWX is set to be pretty compatible with lower end systems - and for that I thank you) http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1553295&postcount=8425 That ended up being longer that I thought for my first question. My other points of confusion just involve convoy hunting and stalking tactics, but I'll keep doing some forum searching before pulling those out. Thanks a bunch guys