It's an uphill struggle reinstalling.

[Telemon]

Greetings,
following my recent post about losing saved games I decided to uninstall everything and start again.

Removed SH3, GWX3.0 and SH3 Commander, checked and cleaned the registry and removed the saved folder from my C drive.

I,ve reinstalled SH3 from my DVD no problem there but now I can't patchto 1.4. I've d/l the EAMA DVD patch from the UBI site but when I try to 'run' it the following message appears;

"This program cannot update the installed version of Silent Hunter III EMEA DVD to v1.3 because of the following reason.
D:\SilentHunterIII\ data\Menu\en_help.txt:unkown version."
Don't know whether to laugh or cry

[Herr-Berbunch]

Read this archived thread...

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//archive/index.php/t-136759.html

[stoneys-nutz]

Did you delete the old UBI/SH3 folder from program files before the re-install ?.

[Jimbuna]

You must delete the SH3 folder in your C\MyDocs and perform a registry clean.

There is a free trial version here: http://www.regvac.com/fregvac.htm

[Telemon]

Greetings all

At last everything seems to be up and running. Just done a trial run OK and now to install SH3 Commander.

My heartfelt thanks to all those who nursed me through a difficult couple of days with your help and encouragement.

One final question. If things go down again should I install GWX3 and SH3 Commander into the same folder as SH3, which I have done at present or is it better to put them into a separate folder?

[frau kaleun]

Greetings all

At last everything seems to be up and running. Just done a trial run OK and now to install SH3 Commander.

My heartfelt thanks to all those who nursed me through a difficult couple of days with your help and encouragement.

One final question. If things go down again should I install GWX3 and SH3 Commander into the same folder as SH3, which I have done at present or is it better to put them into a separate folder?

GWX3 will already be installed in whatever game folder you pointed it to when you installed it - so it is in your SH3 folder. The version of the game that was already in that folder has now been fully modded by GWX3.

I always install Commander in its own separate location, since in the event of having to uninstall and reinstall the game itself, Commander will not be affected by it.

[conus00]

I've had the same thing happening to me. In my case I had to turn off my antivirus to fix the issue. Don't ask me why but it's fixed the problem.

[Jimbuna]

Greetings all

At last everything seems to be up and running. Just done a trial run OK and now to install SH3 Commander.

My heartfelt thanks to all those who nursed me through a difficult couple of days with your help and encouragement.

One final question. If things go down again should I install GWX3 and SH3 Commander into the same folder as SH3, which I have done at present or is it better to put them into a separate folder?

As previously stated, Commander is a standalone/separate piece of software....best put it in a folder of if its own and diiferent drive even, if you want. What is vitally important is that you direct it to your game installation directory, or it wouldn't work....obviously :doh::DL