Do you have for example a C and a D drive?

If so, put it in the D drive.

I just have a C Drive Jim, but I put the game in C:\Ubisoft\Silenthunter3. GWX and Commander are in different locations. When installing GWX, I select the SH3 root directory. That's correct isn't it?

Yes as far as I'm aware but I don't have W8 and am running GWX on W7 D drive.

I think there's some sneaky Admin setting in W8 somewhere. I just haven't found it yet. :)

Keep on it and send Irish a PM asking him his settings.

Usually signs of leftovers from a previous install, as some modded files don't match with the rest that SH3 is loading. Are you sure you did a full clean install, with registry settings clean?

I don't have that level of knowledge, Pisces. Is there an idiot's guide I could follow? :) Or let me ask this....If I uninstalled the game again and then installed it again but in a different directory, would that work?

Start here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...0&postcount=38

Uninstall then clean the registry files before reinstalling.

If you or somebody can partition your C drive into a C and a D that would also help.

So if I buy the nice one, Jim, it's not going to screw up my computer :)

Not sure what you mean matey but if your referring to the registry cleaning software CrapCleaner is okay and it is free but I personally believe RegVac is better and there is a free trial version on the link I posted for you to try.

Did a registry clean. All fine now. Thanks to Jim and Irish. Much appreciated. :)

SINK EM ALL!! http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/1237/qhs.gif

CCleaner came up with about a hundred reg faults.
Regvac zoomed in with about six-hundred!

I was amazed!!

though CCleaner is a good tool.

Defragler is also a good'un.

When you have that many you should always backup your registry before fixing or deleting them.

It's so interesting playing SH3 once more. When the game first came out, there was great excitement followed by frustration as the significant bugs in the game became obvious. The patches were then released, and by the time we got to 1.4 the game was very playable with some careful modding.

I remember that time as being very frustrating. Having to uninstall your mods because a new patch was about to be released. Then waiting for the modders to update their mods to make them compatible with the latest patch.

But as I return to the game now, running it with GWX and Commander, this game is beautiful to play. I prefer it to both of the Silent Hunter games that followed it. It runs very smoothly on my Windows 8 Laptop, and sitting there running the game with my headphones on, it is a very immersive game that's full of atmosphere.

So, the purists may have a hundred reasons why Silent Hunter 5 is better, but I run SH3 at about 75 percent realism and I'm having a ball.