Silent Hunter III Forum

I have installed Silent Hunter 3, using Crossover Pro 7.1.0 on openSUSE 11, running wine 1.1.14-1.1
The game is running fairly smoothly, except when there are lots of units nearby. This despite a quad-core machine with 4 GB of RAM and an NVidia GT 8600 video card. The only thing that I have found not to work so far is raising the periscope while looking through it. As soon as the game tries to render the animation of water running off the lens, the game crashes to desktop. Also, under certain conditions the sky doesn't seem to have the right color, like a light grey for night sky, instead of deep black or blue.
All in all, it is very playable though, and I have started a new campaign with it, currently in my second war patrol!

I am currently trying to get the GWX 3 supermod running. It installs just fine and I can play the training missions, but as soon as I load an actual mission or try to start a campaign with GWX enabled, the game crashes to desktop. If anyone has any suggestions for that, I'm all ears!

Quite strange that the game crashes for you when you raise the periscope. It all works fine for me. Only problem is lag while in port or near a convoy. I was thinking about installing GWX 3 but never went through with it. The only mod I'm currently using is SH3 Commander, which works fine. The only problem with it though is you can't load SH3 via this mod. I have ben able to work around this though. If I think of anything concerning GWX I'll be sure to let you know.

Jordan wrote:

Quite strange that the game crashes for you when you raise the
periscope. It all works fine for me. Only problem is lag while in
port or near a convoy. I was thinking about installing GWX 3 but
never went through with it. The only mod I'm currently using is SH3
Commander, which works fine. The only problem with it though is you
can't load SH3 via this mod. I have ben able to work around this
though. If I think of anything concerning GWX I'll be sure to let
you know.

I left the game alone for a while, but when I heard so many good things about GWX 3, I decided to try it out again. I have the game running, including GWX 3. It runs pretty smoothly so far, however...still crashes when I look through the periscope and raise it at the same time. As soon as the periscope breaks the surface, the game freezes, then crashes. Very strange, but also very annoying. The game also crashes when a wave washes over the periscope. I guess there's something about the rendering of water/spray that is just not running well...