Gwx Installation Problem Under Windows Vista
 

I've enjoyed SH3 for a long time on my desk-top machine and have spent many happy hours with GWX which I downloaded and installed immediately it was available. It's superb!
Just taken delivery of a new Dell XPS M1710, which comes with Windows Vista. Wanting to be able to enjoy my favourite game when I'm away from home, I installed SH3 from my retail DVD on to the new laptop and downloaded and installed the silent_hunter_3_dvd_1.4b_emea patch ( it said successfully). I copied the GWX zip files from where I'd saved them on my desktop, via removable hard-drive, to the new machine and unzipped them.
That done - as with the desktop, I ran GWX.exe to install Grey Wolves and received an error message which said that my version of SH3 was not properly patched to version 1.04b.

I also received the following, which appeared on the desktop of the new machine:


"GWXInstErr.Notepad

Verification of "C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII" by The Grey Wolves Expansion failed.
Test 1 = PASSED
Test 2 = PASSED
Test 3 = FAILED - 1.0.0.1
Test 4 = PASSED
Test 5 = PASSED"

I've uninstalled and re-installed everything several times with the same result. Help, please. I'm getting desperate and am facing a fairly lengthy business trip away. I can't bear the thought of those hotel rooms without GWX.

Thank you

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ighlight=vista

Try this, there is some stuff there.

By the way welcome:up:

VM, it's suggested on other sites that you wait to awhile to do gaming with Vista, until drivers and such are updated. Vista is not as friendly an OS as XP is for gaming. And from what I've read it'll be awhile before a Service Pack is out. If you have another laptop with XP, that might be the best way to run SHIII/GWX for now.

One of the few sims that runs on Vista is FSX, and even that has issues running on some Vista computers. Depending on your graphics card, it will need the newest nVidia and ATI drivers to run with Vista.

The kicker is that M$ is already working on a new OS to replace Vista, supposedly due out sometime around 2009.

They will never learn:damn::damn:

The error log is suggesting that C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII does NOT contain a patched copy of SH3. 1.0.0.1 is the original version of SH3. SH3 v1.4b would show as 1.4.0.1.

Are you sure you patched this installation? When you run this installation does it say "1.4b" on the bottom right of the main screen?

Quote by GT182: "The kicker is that M$ is already working on a new OS to replace Vista, supposedly due out sometime around 2009."

Let me guess, it will be called:
"Windows X360: Full Circle"

M$ seems to be guiding there prized OS in the direction on there prized Console game system so why not have 1 OS for both. as for the Full Circle, it makes sense that most of the PC games originated from consoles like the ATARI 2600 and older. These games started going in 2 directions. 1 was to remain on the consoles and the other was to go towards the PC. Since M$ came out with the XBOX, they have been trying to merge the together and VI$TA and "Games for Windows" is making it a reality.

VISTA problem with 1.04b Patch
 

Sincerest thanks to everyone who responded.

I tried Reallydedpoet's trick with Starforce, but to no avail - Vista wouldn't let me run a vanilla installation of Sh3 until I'd updated the Starforce driver, so that threw his carefully detailed sequence out.

It was JScones analysis of the installation message, questioning whether, or not I WAS updating to 1.04b which prompted me to try again and examine closely the list of changes made by the patch installation. It said that SH3 had been successfully updated, but when I looked closely, item, by item at the list of changes I discovered that the patch was unable to "remove" certain sound files from the data/sounds/speech folders. These were chiefly the .ogg files in the NaO part of the lists which dealt with "range-to-target-over-ten-thousand...." and "range_to_target_under-one-hundred....." The failure was common to all the Speech En folders and others.

Since the failure was in "removal" I deleted them manually, then re-ran the 1.04b patch. After a restart I ran SH3 and, to my delight, saw the magic "v. 1.04" in the bottom right-hand corner.

Needless to say, it wasn't long before I heard the howl and am now running Grey Wolves.

Thanks again for all you help. I think the answer will only truly come when VISTA is properly upgraded, but it IS possible, with help such as I received from you wonderful people, to find ways around.

How does Grey Wolves run on the new Dell XPS M1710? Oh boy!

:up::up:

1.4b is cumulative.

I went straight to v. 1.04 from the original install of the basic game. All I can suggest is that you try to install v.1.04 then look very closely at the installation report which stays on screen when the process is finished. If anything in the list doesn't have "succesful" against it you'll need to find a work around. I was lucky. The list told me that the patch had failed to "remove" certain files. So, not knowing whether it would work, or not, I removed them manually, one by one ( time-consuming and a job which needs to be done carefully), from the vanilla install of the retail game, then ran the 1.04 patch again. If there'd been another problem and the list from the v.104 installer had presented a different failure ( e.g. "failed to overwrite", or something ) I'm not sure what I would have done.

Best of luck. It's worth perservering.

Apologies, I'm at work and up to my eyes, of course I should have written v 1.4b, not v 1.04.

Great. So by the time that Vista finally becomes as gamer friendly as XP alrady is we'll need to start all over again. Whats with the ridiculous need for brand new OSs? Why so soon? If they are in fact doing a new one already then that says that Vista is a real pile of crap because it has no lonjevity. If it had it then they wouldn't need a new one right?

I wish Windows were like Linux distros. A new update every now and then and no need to just scrap the entire suite every 4 years. I'm running SuSe Linux 10.2. Thats 10 major releases with already 2 major updates (the updates are like service packs but even more in depth). In the same month that XP was released SuSe 7.3 was released.:smug: Talk about lonjevity.

I really think that M$ is not moving with the times. I don't expect to be upgrading to Vista til its absolutely necessary.