If your going to re install the game, don't forget to delete your "Documents/SH4" folder too! Follow this
thread for un installing/ re installing.............also, check the Registry for any missed entry's. Make a clean sweep of all of your mods too, no sense in relying on those downloads to not be in error either.
When using your JSGME for the first time after a re install, don't forget to take a "Snapshot" of your clean game files for future compression. I know you're using the Steam version, perhaps it has a way of checking its game files too. Personally, I'd get a DVD copy of the game and throw the Steam version out with the trash! The fact they sell you version 1.3 as their first installment of the game, then ask you to purchase the u-boat missions (v1.5) to bring the game up to speed is a rip off. I wish I could point you to a resonable priced DVD Gold Edition of SH4, but my favorite site (
iNetVideo) has run out of their $14.99 supply....least for now.
I know you put the game in the "Program File (x86)" folder. That's a no-no. Unless Steam has control of that aspect too, install the game in another folder of
your choosing.