Silent Hunter Gold, I believe.. Got rid of Norton 360, and replaced with Kaspersky, though it's almost as paranoid, and just as bad as Norton 360 when it comes to actually following user commands and choices.... Annoyingly decides to "Help me" and save me from myself.... which Microsoft and many other self-righteous and arrogant companies seem to feel is A-OK, but which I find rather downright dismissive and degrading.
That being said, after cleaning out my saved games stuff, AND deleting the directories (made the difference), the next clean install allows me to use the patcher (latest version), load all the MODS I had enabled before this adventure began, and then play a single mission...... NO campaign play though. It just crashes with the "Internet is broken" thing again.... and that is either doing the campaign first, or doing it immediately after the single mission (and using the "save" feature in the single mission to delete any previously saved games......since it always saves the internet lost game..)
Personally, I am starting to wonder if it is the NSA retaliating against everyone they still spy on (all of us), who have made disparaging comments (picked up by the PC microphone we think isn't being actively used) about the blatant, weekly lies to Congress and the World at large by the leaders of the NSA programs, and how stupid they are really getting when they are swearing that they only spy on justifiable terrorist related threats, from the German Chancellor, the President of Mexico, and 37 other world leaders (They must have converted the U.N. to a terrorist organization or something) It's rather comical to listen to the British Prime Minister toe the party line and repeat the same BS that's being ladled out upon Congress, since he almost chokes trying to get those words out..... Oh well.... Of course, it all conjecture, and you'd think have better things to do with budgets approaching 100 Billion Dollars of our tax money, but it seems the number one use of all this spying on American's stuff is carried out by the privileged NSA operatives that want to track an ex-lover, stalk a current/potential lover, destroy a romantic rival, and exact revenge on those who so unwisely spurned said NSA operatives's advances....
All in all, I'd rather be playing SH5
