Windows and a tale of woe on a stormy night

kylania · 08-29-06, 01:31 AM

I'm guessing this was karma for "cheating".

I'm on the mission where you go to AN18 (right off the course of England) for patrol. The first time I did this I died randomly almost there. This comes into play later if you're keeping score at home.

Than the second time all is well, I kill a nice juicy 8k freigher but have to go to sleep, so I save and call it a night.

Tonite, rather than finish my mission, I get all stupid and decide to spend 3 hours making dual installs so I can play GW or NYGM at the same time without much fuss.

Finally get the clients installed and my stupid save game crashes me.

No problem! I'll just do the mission a third time.

This time I do things right, a fresh GW install without all the extra stuff loaded I didn't need. I learn that if I do Ahead Slow during the days I can run submerged no problem whereas Ahead Standard would totally drain my battery.

Than I switch to stopping and doing a hydrophone check everyone in a while. It pays off! A warship. I stear clear. Than another contact! MERCHANT! I pounce... sort of. After getting the general direction and a range of medium (so very close!) I rise to periscope depth and STORM! Can't see a thing, heavy fog, high winds, high seas, rain. So down I do again, after a few hours of trying to get a fix I finally manage to make out a path of travel and using the tricks I've learned about reading these forums I get a speed too! Navigator, set intercept!

I get to the spot where I think he'll be and turn around. Drop to 20, find the signal on hydrophone manually then ask the sonarman for a contact. Bearing 001! Constant Speed! CLOSING!

I set ahead slow and strain to see anything in the periscope. Than out of the fog, a mere 700m away I see him! All back slow, rudder 35 starboard we'll get him as he passes! Tubes 1 and 2.. LOS!!

Two hits and the Tramp Steamer is down!! Than I check the flag, phew British! But after all that work finding him in a huge storm mostly by hydrophone I'd be happy even if I killed a friendly.

So, weather the storm a bit to get my batteries back up to full, then head back to the patrol route.

This time I'm not at 1024x as I was before, I'm coasting along at 32x so my crew can rest before I get into position. I'm just kind of watching the crew do their thing when I notice my rudder is always reading 3 Port. I wonder if there's a problem? So I switch to External View (there's the cheat.. I guess?) and plunge down into the icy waves of the atlantic just behind my boat.

Instantly I'm in panic mode! ALL-FREAKING-STOP BERNARD!! What's wrong? My rudder is off? My ship is pink? I forget to turn off the oven? Nope.. there bobbing up and down gently directly in front of the camera.. is a mine!

Omg! I'd just sailed past one.. and I see another off to the starboard side ahead. Slowly start to back up and turn around. Set a course back the way I can to avoid this minefield (the same one I'd blundered into two days ago at 1024x and would have hit at 32x had I not off handedly wondered about my rudder!).

I get turned around and start to head back the other way. Interested in how massive the mine field was I start to slide under the waves with the camera trying to the find the ones I'd spotted eariler. Since GW's camera is so abhorantly slow (though now I'm thinking it's because i run at 1650x1050 with full AA

) I have to hit shift and forward a few times to cover more ground.

About now you're probably wondering what any of this has to do with windows? Well, as it turns out, if you hit Shift five times slowly, the same sort of thing you'd do if you were say, looking for mines in a stormy sea, it turns on some ridiciously stupid thing called ShiftKeys. At first I thought my PC had died, it made this tiny little blurp sound, then the screen went black. Than up come the helpful stupid Accessability window and DOWN WENT SH3!

Found a merchant in the worst conditions in the middle of the atlantic, narrowly avoided a minefield through a stroke of luck and I'm brought down and lose it all because of a stupid Windows "feature" which I'd thought I'd never installed in the first place.

Oh well...

enaceo · 08-29-06, 02:05 AM

Good thing you escaped those mines though.
Happened to me some time ago ,I was following a merchant into the enlgish channel (wtf was i thinkinh) and I suddenly hit a mine.I stopped and started emergency repairs while my ship was starting to sink.After some time I managed to get things working again,get rid of the flooding and get back up.I then wasted a lot of time using the mine-maps and chart tools and plotted a flawless and highly complicated way out of there,based on my estimate position and the mine I hit ,what position it had in the field and a lot of things like that...
After a lot of time of calculating ,I had plotted ,as I was saying,a "fail-safe" course out of the field and back to base.I was so sure it was right that I went ahead full.After a few minutes I hit another mine and went down...

enaceo · 08-29-06, 02:05 AM

Double post-ma bad

Eichenlaub · 08-29-06, 06:08 AM

It's called the "Sticky keys" feature. I get it regularly when using the periscope. When it happens I immediately press the <Backspace> button to pause the game. Then, I wait for Windows to finish loading and bringing up the pup-up. When the pc has settled completely, I merely press cancel and then click on the SHIII button in the taskbar. I then safely return to SHIII - never crashed or lost data because of it. Just be patient and try it.

Kind regards,

Eichenlaub

geist262 · 08-29-06, 07:59 AM

I sunk a ship a little ways before entering the englisch channel. Afterwards, I start entering the channel and I get spotted by an armed trawler. I go to peri depth ahead flank. Wouldn't you know it, he called his friends to welcome me. I was depth charged for hours. I dive to 34 meters, I don't have much more to dive at this point. I decided to take a look with the external camera becuase its pretty cool watching them hunt you at night. Turns out I just missed a mine to port side. I mean that chain that anchors the mine had to be touching the hull. I should of just sat there and let them hit it, but I tried to slip away. Boat took massive flooding and all hands perished.

mheil · 08-29-06, 10:49 AM

I had the same problem but was able to deactivate the pop-up. Don't remember how but the button is there in the pop-up. Never had the game crash though. Had a couple of heart stopping moments 'cause I thought "this is gonna crach the game - should've saved!"

Jusa_Finn · 08-29-06, 11:03 AM

You can disable sticky key from Control Panel - Accessibility Options - Keyboard. Uncheck 'use sticky keys' box. Select 'settings' and uncheck 'use shortcut'.

08-29-06, 01:31 AM	#1
kylania Silent Hunter Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 3,528 Downloads: 118 Uploads: 0	Windows and a tale of woe on a stormy night I'm guessing this was karma for "cheating". I'm on the mission where you go to AN18 (right off the course of England) for patrol. The first time I did this I died randomly almost there. This comes into play later if you're keeping score at home. Than the second time all is well, I kill a nice juicy 8k freigher but have to go to sleep, so I save and call it a night. Tonite, rather than finish my mission, I get all stupid and decide to spend 3 hours making dual installs so I can play GW or NYGM at the same time without much fuss. Finally get the clients installed and my stupid save game crashes me. No problem! I'll just do the mission a third time. This time I do things right, a fresh GW install without all the extra stuff loaded I didn't need. I learn that if I do Ahead Slow during the days I can run submerged no problem whereas Ahead Standard would totally drain my battery. Than I switch to stopping and doing a hydrophone check everyone in a while. It pays off! A warship. I stear clear. Than another contact! MERCHANT! I pounce... sort of. After getting the general direction and a range of medium (so very close!) I rise to periscope depth and STORM! Can't see a thing, heavy fog, high winds, high seas, rain. So down I do again, after a few hours of trying to get a fix I finally manage to make out a path of travel and using the tricks I've learned about reading these forums I get a speed too! Navigator, set intercept! I get to the spot where I think he'll be and turn around. Drop to 20, find the signal on hydrophone manually then ask the sonarman for a contact. Bearing 001! Constant Speed! CLOSING! I set ahead slow and strain to see anything in the periscope. Than out of the fog, a mere 700m away I see him! All back slow, rudder 35 starboard we'll get him as he passes! Tubes 1 and 2.. LOS!! Two hits and the Tramp Steamer is down!! Than I check the flag, phew British! But after all that work finding him in a huge storm mostly by hydrophone I'd be happy even if I killed a friendly. So, weather the storm a bit to get my batteries back up to full, then head back to the patrol route. This time I'm not at 1024x as I was before, I'm coasting along at 32x so my crew can rest before I get into position. I'm just kind of watching the crew do their thing when I notice my rudder is always reading 3 Port. I wonder if there's a problem? So I switch to External View (there's the cheat.. I guess?) and plunge down into the icy waves of the atlantic just behind my boat. Instantly I'm in panic mode! ALL-FREAKING-STOP BERNARD!! What's wrong? My rudder is off? My ship is pink? I forget to turn off the oven? Nope.. there bobbing up and down gently directly in front of the camera.. is a mine! Omg! I'd just sailed past one.. and I see another off to the starboard side ahead. Slowly start to back up and turn around. Set a course back the way I can to avoid this minefield (the same one I'd blundered into two days ago at 1024x and would have hit at 32x had I not off handedly wondered about my rudder!). I get turned around and start to head back the other way. Interested in how massive the mine field was I start to slide under the waves with the camera trying to the find the ones I'd spotted eariler. Since GW's camera is so abhorantly slow (though now I'm thinking it's because i run at 1650x1050 with full AA ) I have to hit shift and forward a few times to cover more ground. About now you're probably wondering what any of this has to do with windows? Well, as it turns out, if you hit Shift five times slowly, the same sort of thing you'd do if you were say, looking for mines in a stormy sea, it turns on some ridiciously stupid thing called ShiftKeys. At first I thought my PC had died, it made this tiny little blurp sound, then the screen went black. Than up come the helpful stupid Accessability window and DOWN WENT SH3! Found a merchant in the worst conditions in the middle of the atlantic, narrowly avoided a minefield through a stroke of luck and I'm brought down and lose it all because of a stupid Windows "feature" which I'd thought I'd never installed in the first place. Oh well...

08-29-06, 02:05 AM	#2
enaceo XO Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 401 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Good thing you escaped those mines though. Happened to me some time ago ,I was following a merchant into the enlgish channel (wtf was i thinkinh) and I suddenly hit a mine.I stopped and started emergency repairs while my ship was starting to sink.After some time I managed to get things working again,get rid of the flooding and get back up.I then wasted a lot of time using the mine-maps and chart tools and plotted a flawless and highly complicated way out of there,based on my estimate position and the mine I hit ,what position it had in the field and a lot of things like that... After a lot of time of calculating ,I had plotted ,as I was saying,a "fail-safe" course out of the field and back to base.I was so sure it was right that I went ahead full.After a few minutes I hit another mine and went down... __________________ Came back after a long time ...ahoy mates!

08-29-06, 02:05 AM	#3
enaceo XO Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 401 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Double post-ma bad __________________ Came back after a long time ...ahoy mates!

08-29-06, 06:08 AM	#4
Eichenlaub Electrician's Mate Join Date: May 2006 Location: Nijmegen Posts: 132 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It's called the "Sticky keys" feature. I get it regularly when using the periscope. When it happens I immediately press the <Backspace> button to pause the game. Then, I wait for Windows to finish loading and bringing up the pup-up. When the pc has settled completely, I merely press cancel and then click on the SHIII button in the taskbar. I then safely return to SHIII - never crashed or lost data because of it. Just be patient and try it. Kind regards, Eichenlaub __________________ "Despite living in a country where soft-drugs, prostitution, gay-marriage and euthanasia are all legal, I've never felt any inclination towards any of them." When SHIV hits the scene, we should not fear the double D Geisha escort...we should welcome her...

08-29-06, 07:59 AM	#5
geist262 Watch Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 15 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I sunk a ship a little ways before entering the englisch channel. Afterwards, I start entering the channel and I get spotted by an armed trawler. I go to peri depth ahead flank. Wouldn't you know it, he called his friends to welcome me. I was depth charged for hours. I dive to 34 meters, I don't have much more to dive at this point. I decided to take a look with the external camera becuase its pretty cool watching them hunt you at night. Turns out I just missed a mine to port side. I mean that chain that anchors the mine had to be touching the hull. I should of just sat there and let them hit it, but I tried to slip away. Boat took massive flooding and all hands perished.

08-29-06, 10:49 AM	#6
mheil Loader Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 81 Downloads: 70 Uploads: 0	I had the same problem but was able to deactivate the pop-up. Don't remember how but the button is there in the pop-up. Never had the game crash though. Had a couple of heart stopping moments 'cause I thought "this is gonna crach the game - should've saved!"

08-29-06, 11:03 AM	#7
Jusa_Finn Bosun Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Vantaa, Finland Posts: 67 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	You can disable sticky key from Control Panel - Accessibility Options - Keyboard. Uncheck 'use sticky keys' box. Select 'settings' and uncheck 'use shortcut'.