Gato Deck Gun does not turn

[Mikemike47]

I haven't played with a Gato boat in months to year(s). I have a full crew in the deck gun slots, deck gun is enabled, and the shells are loaded. I can not pivot the gun. The gun fires through the front of the sub and the shell hits the water. Presently, I disabled all mods. SH4 is patched to 1.5 U-boat missions. I am at Perth-Fremantle base around late September 1942. Never seen this problem with game before. I am wondering if I have some file left over from mod soup. Still no Gato deck gun pivot.

No matter what mod or mod version or plain vanilla game I played in the past, I have always been able to pivot the deck gun with past subs. Not this time!

Any ideas of what file I am missing or wrong before having to reinstall the entire game? Present file overwrote an important one? I have U-boat missions complete install on a DVD so I have the original file data still.

There is no mod soup error descriptions found in my MOD folders, !Backup or !Instlogs folders.

Past Mods installed but presently disabled
Accurate German Flags
Aleutian_Patrols
aye sir sound mod
EnemiesOfGermany
German Training_mission
German_Officer_Hat_SH4_1.5
Imperial_Emblem_fix
Light Cruiser Tenryu
Schulzs_SHIV_Mission_Pack
Game Fixes Only 1.1
TriggerMaru_Overhaul_2
TMO_Alternate_JS_Radar_Performance
TMO_detectMineSubnet
TMO_Alt_engineSounds
TMO_SubTextures_FooSkin
TMO+RSRDC missions pack
TriggerMaru_Overhaul_2_Beta_update
Ultra Missions
TMO_Kriegsmarine UBM Ship_Speeds
RSRDC_TMO_V502
RSRDC_V5xx_Patch1
TMO2_betaupdate_IJN_Rad_Fix
RSRDC_Fixed Zero Bomb Load
RSRDC_Fixed_CD_sonar
TMO_Visuals_for_RSRDC
GREEN LOCK AND POSITION BUTTON 1.2
GreenLamp 1.5
Highres_Hud_Dials
Nav Map & Airbase v. 1.2 & patch
Voice Recognition, Help, Menu, Roster (my own changes not at all related to gun issue)

Adding TMO_Aft_deckguns in port did not solve the problem for next mission after realizing in previous mission that deck gun did not turn.

P.S.

Thanks for your time reading this and for any future help.

[Platapus]

were you able to move the gato gun in the past? Or has it always been busted?

[ETR3(SS)]

Personally, I don't recommend running two supermods like GFO and TMO together. If you've enabled/disabled mods while on a patrol that may cause a problem. You may have to do a reinstall of the game. If you do, before adding JSGME or anything, make a copy of the game folder that way should this happen again you have a clean game install that you can grab files from.

[Stealhead]

I agree with ETR3.You have two "super mods" and they could be conflicting with each other in some way.


I would trim down all those mods you have in general as well as you have a nice mod soup going there. Cut out some of the ones that you can live without.

Also you may want to start a new career so you are starting with fresh data.

[Mikemike47]

Originally Posted by Platapus

were you able to move the gato gun in the past? Or has it always been busted?

I do not remember if I ever played in a Gato before. It has been too long.

[Mikemike47]

Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)

Personally, I don't recommend running two supermods like GFO and TMO together. If you've enabled/disabled mods while on a patrol that may cause a problem. You may have to do a reinstall of the game. If you do, before adding JSGME or anything, make a copy of the game folder that way should this happen again you have a clean game install that you can grab files from.

Never had a problem running GFO and then TMO before. I never enable/disable mods while in patrol. Found out during more testing that other submarine's deck gun was not working, too. I only tested pivoting on a Tambor, too.

Any ideas of what file/files might cause this?

Problem fixed. I removed most of the SH4 file structure from windows explorer. Dragged and dropped files from my raw install of U-boat missions DVD backup (without any mods) into the SH4 folders. I have no idea of what file was missing or became corrupt. Deck gun pivoting restored.