Ask for a question about the TWOS installation - Page 2

vdr1981 · 07-25-18, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by XenonSurf

I highly advice to include in the TWoS installation instructions telling the player to DEACTIVATE / PAUSE PROTECTION temporarily the anti-virus during installation.

This may be the only solution, unfortunately...

XenonSurf · 07-25-18, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vdr1981

This may be the only solution, unfortunately...

For more security, also, just tell players to go offline before pausing their anti-virus and to re-activate antivirus once online again.

THEBERBSTER · 07-25-18, 02:44 PM

Hi XS

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For more security, also, just tell players to go offline before pausing their anti-virus and to re-activate antivirus once online again.

While this may get over the installing problem it will not make a difference when the SH5.exe is activated and pop up comes and says blocked.
In my experience only the exe applications in 3-4-5 and the HSIE in SH3 which is treated as a virus are the only exe that my anti-virus picks up.
Other applications like the GFP, OFEV, and JSGME are not blocked.

I have just changed my Anti-virus from AVG to BullGuard Premium who are giving 60% off.

Peter

XenonSurf · 07-25-18, 03:04 PM

@Peter,
with Kaspersky you have the ability to exit the anti-virus completly which is good if you play offline games that don't need constant scanning of your system. Also the less programs run in the background, the better. I use to go offline and swich off my AV before starting TWoS (or other demanding games) also because of performance. With MP games one should not do this however for security reasons.
Other anti-viruses have more or less the same functionality, BUT: To my knowledge, with all of them you can define exclusions of folders or files which then will be NOT scanned at all.
In the case of TWoS, if you know that you will install in, for example, C:\games\SH5 (Steam users must know in advance where the files will be installed; it's the '...common\Silent Hunter 5' I think, but not sure), then you create the folder in advance, you make an exception rule in your AV for it, then you install the game in this folder following TWoS instructions.
This should work. It's complicated, I know

At least this would be a solution for those players where their anti-virus will interfere in the background, and maybe they don't even know about!

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XenonSurf Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Germany, Italy Posts: 1,703 Downloads: 107 Uploads: 4	@Peter, with Kaspersky you have the ability to exit the anti-virus completly which is good if you play offline games that don't need constant scanning of your system. Also the less programs run in the background, the better. I use to go offline and swich off my AV before starting TWoS (or other demanding games) also because of performance. With MP games one should not do this however for security reasons. Other anti-viruses have more or less the same functionality, BUT: To my knowledge, with all of them you can define exclusions of folders or files which then will be NOT scanned at all. In the case of TWoS, if you know that you will install in, for example, C:\games\SH5 (Steam users must know in advance where the files will be installed; it's the '...common\Silent Hunter 5' I think, but not sure), then you create the folder in advance, you make an exception rule in your AV for it, then you install the game in this folder following TWoS instructions. This should work. It's complicated, I know At least this would be a solution for those players where their anti-virus will interfere in the background, and maybe they don't even know about! Last edited by XenonSurf; 07-25-18 at 03:19 PM.