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IRISH4Life · 03-21-18, 06:27 PM

To This Amazing Group:

Years ago I had been playing SH3, upgraded to SH4 and modded the game to no end, I loved it played it regularly and was in my own little world. Till my graphics card crapped out. Well I set things aside, finished with the last of my 4 kids and watched each go off to college.

NOW I AM BACK.... Maybe?

I updated the computer, reinstalled windows 7 and it runs nicely, installed SH3, it automatically installed Gameshadow (Which the system will not connect to as it says it cannot find the server). SH3 keeps telling me to the install was good but to finish the install I need to shut the computer down and restart. Now if I was stupid, I would just keep shutting down the system and hoping one day the installation might complete. But I am not and after 5 different restarts I realized I SH3 may be pranking me. LOL! I tried to install the updates for SH3 1.1 1.2 and 1.3, all failing then I tried the cumulative install of 1.4b. Still no success as after each patch attempt it tells me there is a dll missing. Not sure how, as it was just installed unless the dll changes when you register the game, which it will not let me get to and gameshadow is failing.

I then tried to install SH4 1.4 and 1.5 both still unsuccessful, and both saying through UBISOFT that my activation key was wrong. ITS NOT. But there was also a consideration that the servers are all off, not working, or I am really dumber that I used to be when I had all this installed and operating beautifully as I sailed past Japanese Islands in search of ships though perfectly blue waters. Anyway can someone point me towards a thread that tells me the order on install, what to do to stop gameshadow, if I even need game shadow.

I installed SH5 and it works nicely but I find it clunky and not as user friendly as SH4, not to mention I love the PACIFIC theater 7,000 times more.

Please help, at least point me in the correct direction, I have search 100 different ways to find install procedure for SH3 during current days.

Thanks AGAIN!
Mike

03-21-18, 06:27 PM	#1
IRISH4Life Torpedoman Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Columbus, OH Posts: 113 Downloads: 800 Uploads: 0	Trouble installing SH3 and SH4 To This Amazing Group: Years ago I had been playing SH3, upgraded to SH4 and modded the game to no end, I loved it played it regularly and was in my own little world. Till my graphics card crapped out. Well I set things aside, finished with the last of my 4 kids and watched each go off to college. NOW I AM BACK.... Maybe? I updated the computer, reinstalled windows 7 and it runs nicely, installed SH3, it automatically installed Gameshadow (Which the system will not connect to as it says it cannot find the server). SH3 keeps telling me to the install was good but to finish the install I need to shut the computer down and restart. Now if I was stupid, I would just keep shutting down the system and hoping one day the installation might complete. But I am not and after 5 different restarts I realized I SH3 may be pranking me. LOL! I tried to install the updates for SH3 1.1 1.2 and 1.3, all failing then I tried the cumulative install of 1.4b. Still no success as after each patch attempt it tells me there is a dll missing. Not sure how, as it was just installed unless the dll changes when you register the game, which it will not let me get to and gameshadow is failing. I then tried to install SH4 1.4 and 1.5 both still unsuccessful, and both saying through UBISOFT that my activation key was wrong. ITS NOT. But there was also a consideration that the servers are all off, not working, or I am really dumber that I used to be when I had all this installed and operating beautifully as I sailed past Japanese Islands in search of ships though perfectly blue waters. Anyway can someone point me towards a thread that tells me the order on install, what to do to stop gameshadow, if I even need game shadow. I installed SH5 and it works nicely but I find it clunky and not as user friendly as SH4, not to mention I love the PACIFIC theater 7,000 times more. Please help, at least point me in the correct direction, I have search 100 different ways to find install procedure for SH3 during current days. Thanks AGAIN! Mike