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Originally Posted by s7rikeback

Good morning JO313,

Having just used SH4CMS I can offer you my assistance on this matter:

1 - Install SH4 from your normal install media
I used C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/Wolves of the Pacific <--- You need to rename the folder as thus for SH4CMS to work.

2 - update with UBM update into the same directory.

3 - I then unzipped SH4CMS and then added the folder "SH4CorruptionManagementSystem" to C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/SH4CorruptionManagementSystem

As an example, my directory structure would look like this:

C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/Wolves of the Pacific
C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/SH4CorruptionManagementSystem

4 - With Windows explorer, navigate to your SH4CorruptionManagementSystem directory, which for me was C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/SH4CorruptionManagementSystem and double-click StartSH4CMS.

5 - You should see this menu:
Silent Hunter 4 Corruption Management System

Choices: 1. Webster's Mod Soup Fix
2. Make SH4Pristeen protected game file repository (takes 5.5 GB)
3. Make or fix SH4GFO game installation
4. Make or fix SH4RFB game installation
5. Make or fix SH4TMO game installation
6. Make or fix SH4ROTRS game installation
7. Make or fix SH4FOTRSU game installation

8. Quit

Choose the choice of your choice (1-8): Select option 2

6 - SH4CMS automatically produces a directory named \SH4 Pristeen.
It copies all the files that are in \Wolves of the Pacific, places the copies into \SH4 Pristeen. Then it installs JSGME.exe, JSGME.ini, Large Address Aware.exe and MultiSH4.exe into the pristeen directory.

Lastly, it write protects all the files and directories in SH4 Pristeen. That means that it is impossible to play the files there and they are protected against further modifications.

As an example, my directory structure would look like this:

C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/Wolves of the Pacific
C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/SH4CorruptionManagementSystem
C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/SH4 Pristeen

Next, you'll want to make independent installations for any supermods you might want to play. Type the selection, 3 through 7 and it will make a game installation directory for that supermod.

As an example, my directory structure would look like this:

C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/Wolves of the Pacific
C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/SH4CorruptionManagementSystem
C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/SH4 Pristeen
C:/Games/Silent Hunter 4 Editions/SH4FOTRSU

These are names only. There's nothing preventing you from making an SH4GFO installation and using TMO + RSRDC + OTC + Ralles Mod Soup in there.

After you've made your game installation, go into the directory to run Large Address Aware to set SH4.exe and JSGME.exe to be aware of memory above 2 GB.

If you desire to have multiple game installations simultaneously, run MultiSH4.exe to make separate save game and settings directories in your \Documents folder. Finally, run JSGME to produce a \MODS
folder, then IMMEDIATELY perform a Tasks.... /generate snapshot of game files. Now you are ready to play SH4.

Hope that makes sense..

Thank you for this very detailed set of instructions and I am going to follow them to the T and see how it go's. I will let you know if it work's.