Dunno if people may find some new install instructions for DarkWraith's UI mod a bit easier to deal with. I created this last year, when I noticed some .. oddities.. in the installation instructions at the time and posted them at Wargamer's forum for others to use.
I'm not sure if any extra steps have been added to the latest version - I'm assuming it's the same as back in March of 2012 when I wrote this.
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I'm posting a quick tip on how to install DarkWraith's NewUI's as I believe the Menu.txt file, that you're supposed to choose for your game language, isn't mentioned as needing to be also placed into the mod. I've had some questions as to installing it so I wanted to clarify a couple things and hopefully make it a bit easier.
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Firstly, if your game has started acting screwy in any way after activating and/or deactivating a mod, you might consider reinstalling the vanilla game over again (including deleting leftovers in the install folder - aside from JSGME's "MODS" folder).
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The install notes are pretty straightforward:
>>> To install this mod correctly do the following:
>Navigate to where you unzipped the mod to and open it up. Select the 'MODS' folder and right click on it. Select copy. Navigate to your '\Ubisoft\silent hunter 5\' folder and open it up. Right click in an empty area and select paste. Enable 'NewUIs_TDC_6_9_0_ByTheDarkWraith' via JSGME FIRST then enable any additional add-on mods you want (this assumes you setup JSGME to use the 'MODS' folder as default)
>>> Also install appropriate dial.dds file to the mod.
>select appropriate 'Dials.dds' (or use your own!) and place in 'MODS\NewUIs_TDC_6_9_0_ByTheDarkWraith\data\Menu\G ui'. Do this before enabling mod!
If there is a folder inside called 'TDC' then you have to copy the files in that folder to 'MODS\NewUIs_TDC_6_9_0_ByTheDarkWraith\data\Menu\G ui\TDC'. Do this before enabling mod!
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The install notes are in the wrong order. The second paragraph starting with
>>> Also install appropriate dial.dds file to the mod.
should be done before you enable the mod, and it's cleaner to do before you drop it into your MODS folder. If you do that
after enabling your mod.. you may not get a fortunate result.
1) - Dials Clarification:
When you extract the mod's zip file, you'll get the "MODS" folder (containing the base and lots of optional add-ons for the mod) and two other folders. As stated in the second paragraph > open the "Dials" folder , open the appropriate game language version folder(i.e. American/German) , then open the folder with the appropriate measurement system you want to use (Imperial or Metric). Copy the "dials.dds" file, there, into "MODS\NewUIs_TDC_6_9_0_ByTheDarkWraith\data\Menu\G ui" and overwrite if need be.
2) Adding the newer menu file (that was missing in the install notes):
>Open the other extra folder named "Text", open the appropriate language folder, and copy the "Menu.txt" file inside to "MODS\NewUIs_TDC_6_9_0_ByTheDarkWraith\data\Me nu" folder. Overwrite if asked.
3) Cut & Paste the "MODS" folder over to the
base install location of SH5 (i.e. C:\Ubisoft\silent hunter 5) and the MODS folder will merge with your already existing JSGME folder there (you
did already have JSGME installed there didn't you?!)
4)Run JSGME and activate "NewUIs_TDC_6_9_0_ByTheDarkWraith". All the other NewUIs options there are just optional add-ons so you can check the info on them out later, at the Subsim forums, if you want. You only
need that one.
If you don't see the new charts in the upper left corner, the officer bar at the bottom, etc then your folder organization is wrong in your \SH5\MODS folder. Make sure the file path to the main mod like this:
[base install]= "[C:\Ubisoft\silent hunter 5\]MODS\NewUIs_TDC_6_9_0_ByTheDarkWraith".
The base mod may have ended up with
two MODS folders, one inside the base one, if you unzipped the mod directly into your MODS folder and not your base SH5 install location. In that case just Cut the inner MODs folder, navigate back to the base install location and paste there, then overwrite&merge as needed.
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I prefer the "Improved SH5 NewUIs" version and it's the one used in this example. It doesn't hurt that it's also the most reliable one in-game too. While much of the UI will look familiar compared to vanilla, you'll have lots of extras and options now - way more interface options at your fingertips.
Hopefully this helps you see where the extra files are to be placed. I'd think that between not getting those in, or properly, and having the folder structure wrong, is probably the most common issues causing problems with the installation itself.
Nef