[boydjrb]

Just to add a little more information to the discussion.

I recently came back to SH3 and needed to set up on my current system.

Windows 8. I and I do have SH3/Steam download and GWX3 Gold working. Here is what I did.

Having lost my original disk I loaded down from Steam. I had numerous problems.

1. With only SH3 under steam I have to run at desktop resolution set to 1068 or lower. I do then have a full screen. The steam download is 1.4.
If your version of SH3 is not 1.4 you will need to completely remove it and reinstall - see comments below.

2. I then added GWX3 and the problems really started. I reloaded SH3 from Steam numerous times before ironing things out. Please remember that when you start over with installing SH3 you MUST completely remove the old copy of SH3. This includes a must cleanup of the registry. You don't clean the registry you won't install GWX3 Gold.

3. GWX3/SH3 must run as administrator and MUST be installed in the steam SH3 folder.

4. At his point you use JSGME to select the optional GWX mods you want to include.

5. Next you run SH3/GWX3 from the GWX3 icon.

6. I had reinstall numerous times and it appears that if you select Gold mods after starting a career it will mess things up. Once I did a full reinstall as outlined above and did not change or add mods once in a career everything works fine.

Good Luck and Good Sailing!