Already installed english? Want german voices?

[gutted]

No need to re-install and choose german voices in the installation process. Was looking through my file structure and found this:

SilentHunter 5\data\LngGameData\Voices\German\data\movies
SilentHunter 5\data\LngGameData\Voices\German\data\sound

Just copy them over to the right location.

[capthelm]

yep its a no brainer move files overwrite.

[gutted]

yep its a no brainer move files overwrite.

just thought i'd point it out. I saw a few posts where people thought you had to copy it from the CD or re-install it.

They're right there in your game folder.

[gutted]

Instead of overwrwiting them... you might want to make an "English" folder in there and copy your currrent ones over first.

[Onkel Neal]

Yeah, this is in the Tips section. Thanks for writing down the exact file path, I will add that.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=1290007#post1290007

[gutted]

Sorry, haven't looked in that thread yet.

One other note... you can swap them out even with the game running. When i noticed it and copied over the german sounds to see what they sound like, I had forgot the game was minimized.

When i finally ALT-TAB'd back in, the new sounds were working. Apparently the sounds are streamed from file on-demand and not loaded in memory.

[letterboy1]

Where is the "right location" that those files have to be placed?

[Jeevz]

data/Sound/Speech

If you create that folder structure in a folder named somethig like German Voice Mod you can install it with JSGME and all backups are taken care of.

[Heretic]

When the patch installed, I thought I saw speech files being installed. It passed by pretty quick so I can't say with certainty. But if that's indeed the case, the installer should install the same language as your initial install, potentially giving you a mix of German and English voices, if you manually changed them. Even if you disabled your voice mod first, you could miss or undo any changes/fixes the patch made in the voice files.

Which is not to say don't do it, just bear in mind there are potential downsides.

[letterboy1]

Okay, so let the automatic update run first just in case the speech files are patched, and then enable the mod through JSGME. Might be a little tedious because you have to exit the game to do it, but worth it to me to avoid mixed files. Thanks guys! I just can't stand the German-accented English when the genuine German is available.:)

[Michal788]

Good tip.:up:

[mobucks]

the folders are empty in the Impulse release. poor poor mobucks.

[hachiman]

Sorry for being thick here guys.

When you install the game, you get a choice of German or English voices. To switch, you need to reinstall or you can add them manually from the game disc.
SilentHunter 5\data\LngGameData\Voices\German\data\movies
SilentHunter 5\data\LngGameData\Voices\German\data\sound

I can't see this date folder on the cd. I have what looks like rar files saying data1 and data2?

Where are they?

[gutted]

Not on your CD, it's in the game folder on your hard drive.

[hachiman]

I have 2 SH5 folders on my hard drive. One in the program files 86 folder that says ubisoft launcher and the other in my documents.

None of them in the data folder have LngGameData in them?

If i do a search for LngGameData it's not found. I am using Windows 7.

Thanx

[Shigawire]

Will the subtitles still be in english after this is done?

[Ipecac]

Hey buddy,

I have windows 7 too. The data folders for SH5 are not in program files (oddly) they're in their own UBISOFT folder next to program files. Look on your C: drive. computer/local disc c:/Ubisoft/silenthunter5

Hope that helps!

[Superbus]

Will the subtitles still be in english after this is done?

Yes they will.

You can also do this with the Steam version. Just change your Steam language to German first, install game, copy German voices to another place on your hard disk, then change your Steam language to English (game will update automatically) and finally, copy all the German voices back by hand and overwrite the English ones. Everything else stays English, only voices are in German.

[Shigawire]

Thanks. I'm on Steam actually. It seems I didn't need to do it that way, but simply copying the voices from
\data\LngGameData\voices\German\Data\Sound\Speech\
to the sound dir at the game root.

but now the problem is that their lips don't move at all :-?
any suggestions?