Steam, Win10 and GWX 3.0 Gold
 

Or the trials and tribulations of an elderly {or soon to be elderly} simmer.

I have a newer laptop. Win10. I installed steam version of Silent Hunter 3. I then downloaded and installed GWX 3.0 Gold. Icon in the right place. I load the game and it has the howling werewolf sound and screen {neat by the way}, get the GWX menu screen. Make a new U-boat commander {Stefan Dorch because I am...well....a dork}. Everything is just fine.

Then I try begin a patrol. Begins to load then CTD. Continues to CTD with everything I try. Starting with Commander and without it. New campaign or not. Administrator, compatibility mode for W7, XP sp3, XP sp2.

So I tear everything apart, re-install the game {with RUB 1.45 and a couple of other mods} and it works. So, it must be something I did wrong during installing GWX.

The only thing I can think of is GWX needs 1.4b and my game says 1.4. But I've read that steam is supposed to be the latest version.

Anybody have an idea on what I did wrong?

I'm not sure, but just to clarify, if it says 1.4 then it is 1.4b. They just forgot to re-label it when they did the final release. If it works with RUB then it should work with GWX.

With GWX installed, if you open Mission Editor, is there any error message ?

I never tried to open the mission editor. I guess I can delete all, reinstall and see what happens. Is there anything in particular I should look for?

IIRC, there is a way to insure that you have correctly downloaded all GWX files (checking a special number for each parts) ...

No error messages when I open Mission Editor. I opened the Barham mission and no error messages.

More info. It crashed while in the Museum. I was flipping through the British Merchants list and I think the last one I was a Coastal Ore freighter or barge. I can't remember. This crash acted just like the others.

When loading the museum, the loading bar seemed to hang about the same area as when the campaign patrol did. I do not know if this is merely coincidence or if it has some bearing.

I think I have it fixed. Administrator and XP sp2 compatibility on the Silent Hunter 3 with GVX 3.0 application. I must have changed the wrong file in my first attempt.

Thank you for your help.

welcome aboard!
 

Please post a follow up as to how it is going since you changed to XP Sp2 compatibility mode. I'm curious as I have had CTD issues also in GWX with Windows 10, but mine is DVD instead of Steam version.

I have mine working thus far without issues after doing a complete reinstall from DVD.

Prost!