| propbeanie |
02-26-19 08:50 AM |
It's not nice to fool Mother Windows with mods... Windows "protects" the system from rogue software (and the User). It will not allow changes to INI or CFG or similar extensions that are perceived as "System" files. Since Silent Hunter ~and~ JSGME were written in the Windows XP days, before the dawning of the "Protected" computer era of Windows Vista and UAC (User Access Control), they are not capable of communicating to Windows of their intentions to make changes to the files, hence Windows will see the changes as "unauthorized" and will restore the original copy of the files that it has in its "cache".
You need to move your Silent Hunter install out of the "C:\Program Files (x86)\" folder. How you do that depends upon the type of media your game came on. With most of the downloads (with the exception of Steam) and the disk versions, You can copy the install folder (ie: "Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific") and then paste that into another folder of your own making, such as "C:\Games|", or whatever you want to make. Do NOT put it in the "Root" of the drive. You can leave the original install in Program Files if you want, and use that whenever you want to play bone-stock. You will have to create new shortcuts to your new copy of the game, but that copy should take and run mods just fine. The game's original install already has all of the necessary registry entries needed to run that copy.
If you have Steam, it can be a bit of a bother, but possible to do similar. The more Steam games you have the more of a bother it is - unless you have a 2nd primary NTFS partition or hard drive. You do NOT want to use a back-up partition that the computer manufacturer may have used to keep the Restore in. If you have a 2nd drive to use, you just use the Steam app on your computer to create a new Library folder on the other drive, and install the game there. Presto-change-oh, a mod-able game. If you don't have a 2nd drive available to hold the Library, then you have to make changes "by hand", which can get really involved and time consuming if you have a lot of Steam games. The best write-up on that is Moving a Steam Installation and Games on the Steam support site. Read over that several times and make certain you are familiar with what you're doing, if you have to do that with Steam. I did it on my old laptop, but it might have been easier to just re-install everything. Doing a move though, you can walk away from it for a while. Whereas, with a re-install, you have to babysit the install process... :salute: |
