crap---coming back on vista figured this would be the case---oh well---twas a great program that i always ran -----cheers to global for the hours of fun i got out of it on old xp

Just a bit of an update as to a bit of an experiment i tried last night.

I have a desktop PC that has SH3 installed (GWX3.0 and SH3Gen) and operating Win7, as mentioned above SH3Gen does not work on this setup.

I also have an old laptop running XP, so i installed SH3 and SH3Gen on this (not really capable of running the game).

Then i started a career on my desktop Win7 PC, saved the game when out to sea, and exited SH3.

Next i copied the save game file from My Documents\SH3 on my desktop PC and transferred the save game to my laptop.

I then ran SH3Gen on my laptop, directed it to the save game and managed to generate a report.

Next i copied all the save game info from my laptop to my Win7 PC, restarted my career and low and behold the SH3Gen info was in game.

As a further test i exited the game and started SH3Gen on my Win7 game, directed it to my copied saved game files and was able to generate a further report different to the original.

I am no computer expert by far, but it would appear that SH3Gen runs on Win7 but is not able to generate an initial report. If it has an initial report it seems to work ok.

just maybe there is an easy workaround to this.

regards

slipper


As an update to this

I started a new career separate to the one mentioned above on my desktop Win7 PC. saved and exited the game, run SH3Gen directed it to my new career and was able to generate a new report for my new career on a Win7 PC. So it would appear if you manage to get SH3Gen running initially by using a SH3Gen saved game, then it runs ok under Win7. Early days yet but it appears to work.

I just installed SH3Gen on my Win7 (64bit) system. I didn't install it into the Program Files folder (since I know it wants to write some backup files into it's folderstructure, and Win7 doesn't like that there), but into a manually created folder where SH3 itself and SH3 Commander also reside. Afterwards the application did start to run, but the Generate button didn't work because I forgot to set the path to the SH3 game folder in the General settings. When that was done SH3Gen worked as designed. Proven with markings on the map in the game. No need for the XP SP3 compatibility setting in the sh3gen.exe file properties either. I haven't tried the TatukGIS extention yet though.

So I see no special reason why SH3Gen fails to run in Win7. I suspect Slipper installed SH3Gen into the Program Files folder which prevented the files and folder from being created. I'm not sure why he managed to get it to work on the new career though. But there is definately no need to use an XP system as intermediary.

Pisces,
Thanks for the info. I tried SH3GEN on Vista 64bit (installing it outside of the program files) and gave up after many hours of frustration with trying to get it to run, including XP compatibility mode.
I never tried it on Windows7; I just assumed it wouldn't run since Windows7 is just Vista with most of the mistakes corrected and not really a new operating system.
I'll give it a whirl when I have time to see if I can get it working. I'll also try to get the TatukGIS viewer to work.

I have been spending most of my computer time with the SHIV radar mod but I still don't have it completely down.

In the mean time, my golf game is suffering.:damn:

For the record, my SH3Gen version is v082. To my knowledge the last one ever released.

Having used SH3 Gen on XP, I'd forgotten about it for my new Win7 system until I bumped into this thread earlier today.

I got home, downloaded SH3 Gen, ran it and it works fine, just pointed it at my SH3 location and all is well. I'm currently downloading the GIS viewer for mapping.

I tried to get dotnet 2.0, but it's not available on 7, so I tried for 3.5 which includes it, but couldn't get that for 7 either so just the 4.0 that was already on seems fine - I couldn't see anywhere it includes 2.0 or 3.5 but it works (albeit some convoys are inland?):)

Hope the rest of you guys can get it sorted soon.

I didn't notice this thread had so much activity out of nowhere. I'm glad to see some people enjoyed this application as much as I did. It was wonderful for immersion.

Keep trying guys! You're doing great work! If you can get this running again, I'll be your best friend!! :yeah:

Thanx for putting so much effort in!

Thanks for replies all.

Really busy at moment so no chance to experiment, i am using the 0.7.1 version (never tried the TatukGIS viewer or its version 0.8), but will try when i get time.

As long as everyone seems to be getting it working though then alls good. will try the 0.8 version without my longwinded workaround :).

cheers all
regards

slipper