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01-03-20, 12:22 PM | #1 |
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I do not use any external views and cannot run at the designed screen resolution so much of the spectacular eye candy is wasted but I installed v3 and took it for a spin.
Started a BdU Deployment to Norway career in September 1941 and all good until entering the Narvik Fjord at TC x256. Suddenly, right is you enter the first shallows and in mid-Fjord, TC dropped to x1 and all forward torpedo tubes were destroyed with no warning or enemy action. Perhaps ran aground but had 17-metres of water under keel. sailed the rest of the way at TC x64 without incident. Maybe a mine except no hull damage whatsoever. Never hit a mine in SH4 and never survived a mine strike in SH3 so this may be working as designed. Decided to try to manoeuvre into Narvik port as it looks like an interesting, tight squeeze but the end mission icon disappeared before I entered the port itself and coming along pier-side I could no longer end the mission. Not game-breaking but certainly inconvenient. -C |
01-03-20, 12:42 PM | #2 | ||
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Never played with Narvik as home base...will have to test... Quote:
Chronometer is called using X key or clock button in order bar. Have you tried to activate the OM_UJagd? This chrono is bigger than stock clock |
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01-03-20, 01:01 PM | #3 |
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I have the resolution set to 1366x768, which is the largest I can get in the
"gameplay" settings within "options" on the main menu. It worked fine this way on V1 and V2 though. I also have had the OM_UJagd mod activated in all three versions. Here's a real noob question: How do I set resolution to 1920X1080? Thanks for your patience and the help! |
01-03-20, 01:21 PM | #4 | |
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in V3. I activated it now in V3 and the chronometer works fine. I still have resolution set to 1366x768, but everything seems to working fine. Should I change to 1920X1080 anyway? |
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01-03-20, 01:54 PM | #5 |
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that worked.... I put a "Umark.dds" in the misc folder and that did the trick
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01-03-20, 01:57 PM | #6 |
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01-03-20, 01:55 PM | #7 | |
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But you should try at 1920X1080 and see what is best for you: in main game screen go to options, then video settings and scroll the resolution list until you find 1920X1080. Accept and re start SH4 to validate it. Oh and make sure to have the same Hz than your monitor; 60hz or less |
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01-03-20, 02:36 PM | #8 | |
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But it seems to be working fine as it is at 1366X768, so I'm disinclined to do so. "If it's not broke, why fix it?" is my thinking. Thanks for your help! So far it's a swell game! |
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01-03-20, 03:25 PM | #9 | ||
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lol - just joshin' you, of course. Quote:
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01-03-20, 04:17 PM | #10 | |
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Typically, or at least in my SH4 experience, once the end-mission icon appears when returning to any base it does not disappear with the approach so this was something new. Boat was a Type VIIC although cannot see how that could possibly matter. Have never visited Narvik although in my Soviet career, am currently patrolling off that port. Besides, they can't court martial me because I quit! (that career, could not enter port or bother to sail back out to where the end-mission icon showed up again). -C |
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01-03-20, 04:44 PM | #11 |
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The "dock" thingie cannot change without the base moving, which is controlled in the Flotillas.upc file. At Narvik (in NavalBase base file), the anchor is in the middle of the dock. The only way that moves is if the flotilla moves, which is why I was wondering about the date of your arrival. As for 'friendly' traffic, after a "ship spotted" message, the next would be "We're taking damage, sir!" if you collide, and that's with just about anything. With the mine, you should hear the explosion, you might see water splash if you're on the bridge, but you should see a camera shake (same thing for a collision, maybe not as violent), and then you might have the "We're taking damage, sir!" message, but you would also normally get a "We have flooding, sir!", which you might not always see with a collision. With the mine, things should escalate, and there'd be no doubt about what it was, unless you are deep in the water, and then it's over quick, of course, sometimes never knowing what hit you...
It doesn't sound like you have that Save available anymore though, so it'd be a bit tough to trouble-shoot now. When you say the "Dock" prompt went away, do you mean from the middle of the screen, or from the upper-right corner of the screen, up by where the Silent Running and Underwater icons show? Do you remember if you had emptied the Save folder after activating the mod? Was / is the 4gig patch (LAA or another) properly activated on the SH4.exe file? Does it seem to be OK now? Thanks |
01-03-20, 04:57 PM | #12 |
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Hi guys
I am on my first patrol with V3 and tonight I had a strange thing happen when I loaded my 3rd game save and went to the nav map after a short while my frame rates went very low to fps20 at TC32 then to fps6 at TC64, I ended up on the bridge with fps0. I hit the windows key and came back into the game at TC1 as normal. As I started upping the TC down went the frame rate. Somehow L.A.A had dropped out. As soon as I re-connected the game it was back to normal. Never happened before in any of my previous SH4 games! Peter
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01-03-20, 05:49 PM | #13 |
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That career (BdU to Norway September 1941) and its saves are gone but there was never any "We're Under Attack", "Taking Damage" or "Ship Spotted" reports. Could have been an invisible fisher (unlikely) or a mine or the phase of the moon. Not Cat though, he was out with his cat friends at the time.
Friendly traffic always seemed to trigger the "Ship Spotted" message even if TC remains as set. Plan to revisit that career setup again to see if the damage repeats but expect a nil return if the issue does not re-occur. -C |
01-03-20, 09:01 PM | #14 | |
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Regards. Fitzcarraldo
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01-03-20, 10:04 PM | #15 |
CTD - it's not just a job
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When it comes to "antilag", I direct your attention to Front Runner's post #89 & 90 in his Base Time 2018 thread. Very interesting discoveries... one must be careful when "mixing". You might create something noxious...
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