Ship Simulator

[JSP]

Got my eldest lad Ship sim today http://www.shipsim.com/home.php
But the little fecker wont let me have a go. Looks really good though.
He found it on the net yesterday (he's only 6!) after playing these games http://www.motorboatmuseum.org.uk/learning/games.php and wanting more boat games.
Just need the little git to go to bed now and it's mine.

[chewy]

I've got it too, only thing is the sea doesn't get rough enough, you can reprogram it but it involves redoing software stuff.

Still haven't managed to moor the ferry!

[JSP]

Well he's doing allot of moaning upstairs so it looks like he'll soon get bored. Tis mine
Is it good then Phill?

[chewy]

I enjoy it, once you've sussed out you can use the mouse to control each throttle and not just have your bow thruster on full power you have half a chance of mooring stuff.... then you have to tie it up right so it doesn't drift off!

[jyasaki]

I had a demo version of that a couple of years ago. It was more fun than I thought it would be.

Don't see the demo on the site (but didn't look all that carefully); anybody know if it's still available?

jky

[JSP]

Yeah I've been playing the demo of it coz my lads bang into it and I can't get my mits on it.
http://www.shipsim.com/downloads/tra...fb7c09725d7747

[jyasaki]

Ah. Thanks.


jky

[BogMonster]

I've just downloaded the demo version of Ship Sim 2008 but I can't get it to run properly. It's really really REALLY slow - update rate is about 1 frame per second and its completely unplayable. Computer is nothing special by current standards but runs everything else fast enough - its a P4 / 2.66GHZ with 2GB of memory, running XP SP3, and the game is certainly far slower than I think it should be.

Is there any special way you are supposed to run this that I am missing or does it really need a supercomputer to run? I've tried just running it from within Windows and also from a "safe mode" command prompt (the latter killed the keyboard and crashed the computer).

I quite like the idea of it but not getting very far at the moment and wanted to try the demo before deciding to get the full version

Any idea please? Ta...

[chris123]

Originally Posted by BogMonster

I've just downloaded the demo version of Ship Sim 2008 but I can't get it to run properly. It's really really REALLY slow - update rate is about 1 frame per second and its completely unplayable. Computer is nothing special by current standards but runs everything else fast enough - its a P4 / 2.66GHZ with 2GB of memory, running XP SP3, and the game is certainly far slower than I think it should be.

Is there any special way you are supposed to run this that I am missing or does it really need a supercomputer to run? I've tried just running it from within Windows and also from a "safe mode" command prompt (the latter killed the keyboard and crashed the computer).

I quite like the idea of it but not getting very far at the moment and wanted to try the demo before deciding to get the full version

Any idea please? Ta...

There is nothing particularly onerous in the minimum spec list on the Shipsim website:

Windows 2000, XP or Vista
Pentium 4 2.4GHz or AMD equivalent
1GB (Windows 2000/XP) or 2GB (Vista)
GeForce 5900 or ATI 9600 Pro / X600 (128MB)
Sound card

Is your graphics card up to spec? Latest DirectX installed?

It ran ok on my old computer (probably similar / lower spec than yours), and from what I remember there was nothing non standard about the install.

Cheers

Chris

[BogMonster]

Originally Posted by chris123

Is your graphics card up to spec? Latest DirectX installed?

Ah erm um <mumble mumble> looks down at feet....

Graphics card is whatever Dell put in when they built it - according to Control Panel an Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV if that makes any sense? Somewhere or other it said 64MB so could that be the problem? I'm not buying a new computer just to run Ship Sim and being a Dell I doubt you can upgrade the "card" as its probably welded onto the motherboard I think.

I have no idea what DirectX is but I will type it into Google no I don't think so. The computer doesn't seem to have any problem running reasonable resolution video clips - stuff like the RIBnet Pwellyheli video from a couple of years back - but maybe this isn't a good indication.

I'm not a hardened gamer as you may be able to tell ... I used to be good at Doom about fifteen years ago but I guess a bit of water has passed under the bridge since then!

Thanks