Assuming you dont have the steam version .
Complete balls up

Save your mod profile .
Un enable all the mods .
Uninstall the game .
Delete the sH5 exe icon from the desktop and any in the main game folder .
Reinstall the game .
Patch to 1.2 .
Place the TDW_GenericPatcher_v_1_0_74_0 folder in your main game folder .
Follow the steps with the patcher .
Right click on say (broken hydrophone fix) and enable that .
Right click on exe after being patched and copy shortcut to desktop .
Click on the new exe on the desktop to start the game .
Forget the hex editing .