Need help with Windows 10
 

Hi Folks, I have been playing SH3 with for several years. Unfortunately, I upgraded my system recently to windows 10 and I cannot get SH3 to load again. This is driving me CRAZY. Here’s what I have tried:

I loaded SH3 from a US version DVD onto my computer (a check of the DVD files indicate they were created on the disk in 9/27/2007). This is the original disk I purchased and have used for three or four years.

I installed the game in c:\SilentHunter. (I created a separate folder on the “c” drive). After loading the game I hit “Quit” and closed the game.

I downloaded: US DVD Patch 1.4b from Ubisoft and saved to a separate folder on the “c” drive.

When I attempted to install US DVD Patch 1.4b I received the Error Message:

Silent Hunter III Download v1.0 to V1.3
This Program cannot update the installed version of Silent Hunter III because of the following reasons: C:\SilentHunterIII\Mission Engine.dll: unknown version.

I then downloaded GWX3-1 thru7 and saved them to my desktop. I opened the file and installed GWX3.

I restarted the system and started GWX. The game began normally and allowed me to select my crew and change the Realism settings. I selected a start year of 1940 departing Lorient. When I selected the start button the game appeared to be loading and at the completion Crashed to Desktop.


My System:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 16GB
Hard Drive 1: 119.24GB LITEON (SSD) (SH3 is loaded here)
Hard Drive 2: 931.51GB Seagate (HHD)
Graphics Devise: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Windows 10

I love this game and this is killing me.


Is there a posting that discusses issues with loading SH3 while utilizing Windows 10? Step by step instructions?
Where should I save the patches?


How can I determine if I do indeed have the patched version? (I assume so since I played this game for three or four years before upgrading to Windows 10).


Where should I save GXW3? Please help.

Hi BL!TZ,

I saw this today, I will give it a try this evening when I get home. Thank You!

I installed Win 10 and SH3 seems to work on it. One problem, thought. I have been using an Apple wireless mouse, and Windows seems to no longer recognize its wheel function.

Is there a driver for this problem? :hmmm:

I believe I can already tell you what it's going to say. Your game version is 2007, and is already fully patched. The patch can't read the version number because it's trying do what's already been done.

At that point the patch had already altered what it could, and your version of SH3 is no longer pure. GWX must be installed on a clean, pure, unaltered version of the game.


[edit] I should have added at the beginning that this has nothing to do with Windows 10. I was running SH3 on Win 8.1 with no problems, and upgrading to 10 didn't change any of that. I didn't even re-install the game, as it was the same computer.

Hey Steve can I ask then, my disk has v1.4 on it as well. GWX always crashed even when I got it up and running. In other words, I got farther south n GWX than cannon and played for awhile. The crashes drove me crazy and I switched over to NYGM. Been great ever since. If my disk wasn't updated to v1.4, are you saying GWX will not crash?

At this point I'm loving NYGM, and I've upgraded it and modded it to my likeness, I won't quit, I was just curious.

No. My answer was only to the OP's complaint:
This has nothing to do with game crashes, but rather the game refusing to update at all, for the simple reason that the version he has is already updated. This is unrelated to which supermod you're running, as since the game itself won't work under those conditions you can't load any mods at all.

We also don't know whether that was really the problem, as he hasn't responded yet.

Cool! NYGM is an awesome mod.