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XenonSurf · 12-29-17, 02:52 PM

SH3 is very nice, but I recommend it for older computers only, the game has no widescreen support, and the modded widescreen GUIs all have some flaws, although looking very nice. The correct setup on modern machines can be quite complicated, especially in Win10.

Best for decent computers and the nicest grafics is SH5 + TWoS (Atlantic Battlefield) and
SH4 + GTO (Pacific Battlefield).

For laptops I recommend SH1 Commander Edition 1.31 (Pacific Battlefield) played via Dosbox and the Dosbox frontend D-Fend Reloaded; it's an old game with older grafics, but with remarquable and tricky AI, even better than SH4 in my opinion.

I do NOT recommend any Steam version of the SH series (why? see setup problems in the stickies), get the DVDs on Amazon or e-Bay, you then have less pain to setup and mod the games afterwards.

12-29-17, 02:52 PM	#6
XenonSurf Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Germany, Italy Posts: 1,703 Downloads: 107 Uploads: 4	SH3 is very nice, but I recommend it for older computers only, the game has no widescreen support, and the modded widescreen GUIs all have some flaws, although looking very nice. The correct setup on modern machines can be quite complicated, especially in Win10. Best for decent computers and the nicest grafics is SH5 + TWoS (Atlantic Battlefield) and SH4 + GTO (Pacific Battlefield). For laptops I recommend SH1 Commander Edition 1.31 (Pacific Battlefield) played via Dosbox and the Dosbox frontend D-Fend Reloaded; it's an old game with older grafics, but with remarquable and tricky AI, even better than SH4 in my opinion. I do NOT recommend any Steam version of the SH series (why? see setup problems in the stickies), get the DVDs on Amazon or e-Bay, you then have less pain to setup and mod the games afterwards. Last edited by XenonSurf; 12-29-17 at 03:10 PM.