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Old 10-20-21, 01:42 PM   #1
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So i just installed GWX today and that seems to run just fine, so now i wanted to use SH3Commander with it to improve my crew and to use some of it's features like no fatigue and such... Apparently that breaks my game somehow. Whenever i try to load up a Career or a Mission i get to the loading screen, it loads to about 3/4 and then crashes on me. Not using any of the mods provided via GWX/JSGME, only GWX and some features from the Commander. I like to have a perfect crew so i give them medals and 3 abilities where it's possible and promote them to max. Worked fine without GWX. I'm using GWX 3.0 and SH3Cmdr Config Files for GWX. Running on Windows 10. Also tried to apply the 4gb patch which didn't work. Been trying for hours now and once i played with GWX and SH3Cmdr and it crashes on me it seems the only way to make it work again is to completely reinstall SH3 and GWX. Hope someone out there can help me somehow.
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Hi metronom when you downloaded GWX did you also download the GWX Commander Mod Config file so GWX and the Commander Mod talk to each other download links Below Sir


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http://www.thegreywolves.com/downloads/


Also if you are using mods you will need the 4GIG Patch download link


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So i just installed GWX today and that seems to run just fine, so now i wanted to use SH3Commander with it to improve my crew and to use some of it's features like no fatigue and such... Apparently that breaks my game somehow. Whenever i try to load up a Career or a Mission i get to the loading screen, it loads to about 3/4 and then crashes on me. Not using any of the mods provided via GWX/JSGME, only GWX and some features from the Commander. I like to have a perfect crew so i give them medals and 3 abilities where it's possible and promote them to max. Worked fine without GWX. I'm using GWX 3.0 and SH3Cmdr Config Files for GWX. Running on Windows 10. Also tried to apply the 4gb patch which didn't work. Been trying for hours now and once i played with GWX and SH3Cmdr and it crashes on me it seems the only way to make it work again is to completely reinstall SH3 and GWX. Hope someone out there can help me somehow.
What Blackswan said...

There is an additional file/s that SH3Cmdr needs in order to work with GWX3... that thought came to mind when I saw your post in the main menu...

On a side note, can do a search for Large Address Aware, download & can install this where ever.. just remember to send a short cut for it to desktop... this is a simple 3 step & done process to assign SH3 (really any game/sim you play for that matter that requires more than 2 GB's that Microshaf... urhm, Microsoft miserly assigns to games/sims) & tells the game/sim to run with 4 GB's of RAM.

Simply open LAA as some refer to it... tell it where your (in this instance, SH3's) .exe is located... select it, go to step 2, check the box & 3... click accept/apply &... DONE.

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Unpack 4Gig Patch in your SH3-GWX Folder then click on 4Gig Patch exe and tell it where your SH3-gwx Install is and your SH3-GWX is Patched






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Old 10-20-21, 04:27 PM   #6
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Hi metronom when you downloaded GWX did you also download the GWX Commander Mod Config file so GWX and the Commander Mod talk to each other download links Below Sir


GWX Commander Mod Config File


http://www.thegreywolves.com/downloads/


Also if you are using mods you will need the 4GIG Patch download link


https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/dow...o=file&id=5737


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Heya Blackswan40, thanks for your answer.

I did download some Config file but it was this one:
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/dow...o=file&id=1421

I also tried it with the 4gb Patch before, that was this one: https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371

So i just installed SH3Cmdr again before starting the complete reinstalling of SH3 and GWX, then i applied the Config File that you linked and then i ran the 4gb Patch. I tried to go on patrol but it crashed while loading, second time mysteriously worked (yay) but it crashed on the way to the patrol area, might be because i used time compression up to 8192 I tried to run it again and it crashed again upon loading into going on patrol. Thinking about just reinstalling it all again in the following order: SH3, 4GBPatch, GWX, SH3Cmdr, SH3Cmdr Config File. That should work right?
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Metronom! the infamous seven-year-itch strikes again! Your nearly 7 year 'silent run' is ended!
Heya, yeah i went wild on that silent run never needed help before really but now i'm kinda strugglin
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On a side note, can do a search for Large Address Aware, download & can install this where ever.. just remember to send a short cut for it to desktop... this is a simple 3 step & done process to assign SH3 (really any game/sim you play for that matter that requires more than 2 GB's that Microshaf... urhm, Microsoft miserly assigns to games/sims) & tells the game/sim to run with 4 GB's of RAM.
Heya, so this is basically just the 4gb Patch you mean right? or is this something else? Cause i got the 4Gb Patch going already
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Unpack 4Gig Patch in your SH3-GWX Folder then click on 4Gig Patch exe and tell it where your SH3-gwx Install is and your SH3-GWX is Patched





Do i need to do it that way? I just opened it with 7zip and ran it from there telling it where my sh3.exe is, steamapps-common-SH3-sh3.exe, but i didn't put it in the same folder
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Heya, so this is basically just the 4gb Patch you mean right? or is this something else? Cause i got the 4Gb Patch going already
No, that (Large Address Aware or LAA) is not a patch... it is an executable tool, that works within your computers system (for any & all games/sims) to assign them 4 GB's of RAM access, right off the rip.

What I know is, I use it & with relatively great success in running modded game/sims without any issues. It cuts down the instances of running into CTD's... doesn't knock them out 100%, as that is owing to the fact that CT's can still occur due to improperly rigged mods not working right or... improper mods being used... to mods NOT being activated in the right order.. BUT... it DOES knock them out due to not enough RAM being accessible to the game/sims.

With mods, you have to know for sure, that...
1. The mod has been tested to work with the mod set you're rolling with

2. Is the correct mod for the correct SH3 (or 4 or 5) version that you have...

3. That SH3 (or 4 or 5...) is NOT installed in either of Window's "Program file" locations.. as UAC (Window's file defender, if ya will... ) does NOT like files (or folders, for that matter... ) being, "tampered' with... & using mods, is in essence, tampering with those areas.

4. That you're getting them activated, in as near to or in the exact correct order that you need to have them activated...

Hope this info helps...



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Hi metronom the PM i sent you with the download link to SH3 thats now considered abandoneware by ubisoft place the SH3 Folder outside Program Files/86

Make a Games folder on just Drive C:/ and place SH3 in there and unpack it with 7zip then mod it as you see fit


you can run the 4Gig patch from your desktop,downloads anywere just point it to your SH3 Install

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Hi Metronom sent you another Pm Sir hope it helps
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Thanks a lot for your help guys...seems like i got it working now
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Hi metronom im glad your all squared away with your new install happy hunting in the Atlantic
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