A message from the Silent Hunter IV Dev Team
 

A message from the Silent Hunter IV Dev Team:

“We are working hard to correct the bugs discovered by the community or the testing team. Already patch v1.1 corrects many of the issues, and we’re at work on the next one. We have strong hopes it will include both Anti-Aliasing and a fix for the issues experienced when running the game in very high resolutions.

However, some issues pointed out, like for example the 2D appearance of crewmembers, the random counting by the crew or the eyes popping out from the men’s heads are actually part of the protection scheme. Playing a cracked version of the game or even using a no-cd crack over a legal install of SH4 game triggers this protection.

Obviously, running a legit version of the game should not produce these problems. Since we have found at least one documented case where such behavior was experienced by the owner of an actual copy of the game, we have contacted the company producing the protection used by the game.

We will track down the issue and sort it out. In the interest of helping us do so, please post here if you are seeing these issues, while running a legit version of the game."

Thank you,
The SHIV dev team


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Updated 30 March
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A message from the Silent Hunter IV Dev Team
 

This is great news!!! Thanks Neil. (and thanks Dev team!!)

The anti-protection system explains why I've never experienced the popping-eyes and paper thin crew members. (clever!)

Good to hear.

And.. :rotfl:to the people who complained about the 2d crew/eyes/countdown bugs.

"PWNT" as they say on less mature forums :arrgh!:

Thanks for the headsup neal.

Oh, and neal. Please tell the devs back that at least one subsim.com skipper is having a great time here. Got my Subsim-store ordered game yesterday and have been patrolling since.

I wouldn't sink anyones boat just yet.

If they fix the resolutions to give us 'true' resolutions of the 3d rendered world that are selectable as in-game resolutions, then they will be making right what is currently wrong and is a cheat and a lie.

If they give us AA capability... Happy Days are ahead! :rock:

Let's just hope they do it.


At any rate, thank you very much for the heads up on the Message. :)

Cheers

Sounds great. Now I'm wondering just one thing. Will my 64bit operating system play the game? (without you know what) :hmm:

Let's hope there is indeed light at the end of the torpedo tube!

And a high res one without jaggies! ;)

Great news, I knew the devs wouldn't leave us in the lurch!:D:up::rock: I have a question however: The problem that some crew members don't have eyes so that they look like zombies, is that aso caused by the protection system?:hmm:
If someone of the devs reads this: You've done a great job!!:yep:

Sounds really good. I wish the best of luck to the devs in a mission to squash some bugs! :arrgh!:

Probable going to buy this game soon :)

Good, positive message.

Nope, not caused by the CP ( I HOPE!!), as I reinstalled the game before patching and havent applied the *COUGH* yet and last night all the crew members had eyes missing. That was after a long period of max TC, so dont not if that´s the case.

I have the Deluxe box and i did experience eyes missing once and transparent crewmembers. Never seen the papercut crew though :)

Very pleased to see that FSAA might get fixed :D Excellent news.
I gotta say i really like the patch. It added and fixed quite some bugs. Good job and kudos to the Dev team.

The game runs perfectly on Windows XP 64 bit.

I thought only Microsoft was capable of this sort of insanity. Obviously I was very wrong.

This copy protection scheme will be cracked like every other such scheme has been cracked. In the meantime how many more false positives will there be? There are much smarter ways of protecting intellectual property but Ubi seems utterly incapable of moving into the 21st century. It's sad, really.

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...

r.