i saw this earlier on my first career patrol, my helsman's eyes looked like something out of a howling movie, very red and creepy looking. havent noticed any popping out of the sockets though!:rotfl:

very good to see the dev's are active in making this game even better

hope that AA get's put in.

Fabulous ! - Great news from the Dev Team; They support us indeed :up:

HELL! It's nice to hear from them! Good luck guys in finishing this game. I live in Poland and here SH4 - as far as i know - waits for localisation, so one more month (i hope) of waiting which is in that case a good thing because the game will be released here fully playable (again - i hope so).

But - still - its sad that whole world saw Silent Hunter 4 in unfinished state (Ubisoft publishing politics is sooo weird :down:).

This is great news! Better than I expected. Shame on all those people running a cracked version and getting us even more stirred up about something they brought upon themselves.

Well that must be some pointless copy protection.

I guess it shows the state of the game when those things were thought to be bugs rather than copy protection.

Request for patch 1.2 - display a bit of text when that happens so the player knows the cause and can report the bug properly (i.e. my copy is legal but it's telling me it's not and weird things are happening). I assume people with illegal copies will then stay away from reporting bugs...

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Well we gotta prove it first. The devs themselves said that there was at least one guy that had the protection software finger him in court wrongly.:smug:

I still think keeping the CP as a secret was a bad move, it´s well known fact that lots of people use *CENSORED* to keep their disc clean & working. It´s easier & faster than making a backup copy of the disc. :yep:

Part of the CP is to keep it under wraps. This way the 31337 guys pirating the game and cracking gets poo on their face as well as the idiots on the webforums whining over bugs (that is caused by their CP circumvention). Its been what, 4 days since release? I think they let the cat out of the bag fairly early.

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Oh God please help! I have the following computer specs:

3.4 Ghz Pentium 4

6200SE Nvidia Geforce with 256MB RAM

I HAVE NO SOUND CARD

I HAVE A 1.1 PATCHED version of SH4 (UK) Version

The game runs so slowly as to be unplayable. Is the lack of sound card the crucial factor or is there something very wrong with this software?:cry:

I dont agree. The best copy protection Ive seen was in the Operation Flashpoint game.Operation Flashpoint would randomly kick out players from multiplayer servers stating "Real gamers doesnt cheat"; and the accuracy of the rifles would degrade over time. The good thing was that the hackers thought they hacked the game, and would move on to newer games; which meant that they had to re-release cracks several times to improve the hack. Meanwhile we who owned a legit copy always smiled when someone complained about missing all the time, and when someone was randomly kicked out from a multiplayer game.

This is a better CP than the common ones where the crackers directly see if they have hacked the CP or not. WIth this fuzzy CP, people will start to play the game and get engulfed with it (see it like a big demo), but then as the game degrades they might buy the game.

The cheapest video card that can play the game is nVidia GeforceFX 6600GT. Anything below that simply lacks the computing power.

It would also help to have at least 1.5 Gb of RAM.

I had the "demon eyes" effect occur with my bridge officer while running with red lights on. I took a screenshot but lost it (:damn: ) and I will be more than happy to take pictures of my box, manual, reciept, etc.

I don't think that copy protection is the problem, but I do appreciate the developers taking the time to let us know they're listening.

Never had the counting bug or the stick thin crewmen, though I did have them look a little flat as I swung the anti aircraft gun around the conning tower and the camera moved.

Your processor is fine but your GFX card is the problem. It's an old card and SHIV demands a lot of raw power. You also didn't mention how much memory you have. You will want 2gb to run it smoothly alongside a decent GFX xard.

Thanks for the help guys. I have 1 GB of RAM. My GFX Card is listed on the back of the box as being a 'minimum' system requirement. However the game is unplayable, which is a little ridiculous with a 3.5 GHZ processor et al. :nope:

I guess I better bite the bullet and get a decent GFX card.

It also runs on my 64bit Vista