its a shame steam screwed you, they sell sh4 v1.4 and v1.5 at the same price but if you dont ask you dont get the new version.

at least you found a real copy on disk.

with your older system i would recommend you stay away from the german side, operation monsun is HUGELY computer intense and you need a good system to handle it.

not to worry, the german side is more of a side excursion the way the game was made so 95% of it is designed for the american side. thats why OM is so huge and hard to run, lurker had to basicly make his own game from scratch to do it.

after you get v1.5 installed load up GFO to fix most of the issues with the game then get used to it like that for a while. GFO is close to stock so after you are ready for more of a challenge then try TMO


by the way if you really do have the v1.3 game then the 1.4 patch can be downloaded from subsim right here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...p?do=file&id=8

note, before updating you should uninstall all mods or your game will be corrupted

Unfortunately v1.4 won't install because it cannot find the game. After doing some research I found out this seems to be a common problem with the steam version that most who play fix it by downloading the UBoat Expansion which will update the game straight to v1.5. 0. I have a physical copy comming so this is something I'm going to refrain from doing. After looking through many of the games files (title page of the game, readme, and details from the program itself) I have found that Steam is indeed offering the v1.3 version of the game through their download, which is odd because 90% of the time they are pretty good about including the most recent update... :-?


I would spread the word to avoid getting an SH from Steam, it seems like games from steam are impossible to update unless steam has an update for them. Also I'm finding its not exactly the most enjoyable to mod the game through steam.

Oh well, since I bought my physical copy out of the UK (and I live in a tiny in central Illinois) I'll be waiting a couple of weeks for it to get here (they only offered 1 shipping method). Oh well atleast I can still play the game until it arrives.

When you get your game ,please read install instructions on this forum,do NOT let game load into default folder,make a new folder and call it SH4 or something,then you will not have huge prob's later.

TY for the heads up, yeah I will definitely look up the install intructions on this forum