OK, start the game, use the Options menu, Graphics Settings, and use that little drop-down box in the upper-left, scroll towards the bottom of the settings, and see if there isn't a listing for your 1440x900 display setting. If there is, choose it, save the changes and back to the main menu to exit the game. It should have those settings for you when you start the game again. After that, see if you don't have those sinkings in the book. The book sometimes gets cut-off when the screen resolution doesn't match the computer's. Similar happens when you use the Recognition Manual at the periscope, to where you can't operate some of the buttons for the torpedo settings. Get the screen resolutions to all match, and it's like magic... If you have a halfway decent graphics sub-system, which most modern computers do, you can bump-up those other display settings while you're in there. The game does not check the hardware too well when it sets things up. Leave the gamma setting alone, and leave the bottom setting in each of the other two columns empty, unless you know what they can and cannot do. You might have to experiment a bit with a few of the other settings, if you end up with "holes" through the ocean and ships when the sun rises or sets...
Now, when you go to mod the game, where you have it installed is important. You do NOT want it in the "Program Files (x86)" folder, which is where it defaults to with the install routine, which is from the WinXP days, before UAC was "invented" for Windows. That and other Windows folders are "protected" from un-authorized edits of certain files, of which JSGME (used to activate mods) is not "authorized". You can keep the install you have, if you have the disk space, and just copy it to another folder. The easiest way to do it is to open My Computer, Computer, or Windows Explorer, whichever name it has in your OS, go to the "Program Files (x86)" folder, the computer will ask for confirmation, select the "Ubisoft" folder with one left-click. Don't open it, just select it. Then press the <Ctrl> key, and while holding it, press the <C> key, which will "Copy" the folder and its contents. Then get to the "root" of the drive where you want to have the game, whether it'd be C:\ or D:\ or whatever, and use the <Ctrl> <V> key combination to "Paste" or insert a copy of the "Ubisoft" folder there. It will take a few minutes to do the copying. When it's finished, if you go ahead and open the Ubisoft folder, select the "SH4.exe" icon, hold the <Alt> key, and click and drag that "SH4.exe" to the desktop, which will create a short-cut for you, which you can name whatever you want. Just make sure that the actual SH4.exe file stays in that Ubisoft folder... not that I've "had an accident" like that before...
- but it is an easy manner to click and drag it back if that happens to you also...
Once you have the game also in an "un-protected" folder like that, you can use that install to mod, and leave the original for when you want to play "stock". If you use the "Program Files (x86)" install to mod, Windows will "rollback" all of the *.cfg file changes that JSGME would implement, and you'd have a partial mod, which wouidl work strangely. If you don't plan on modding, don't worry about it...
