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Originally Posted by gamer3106
...The game seems to crash whenever I use any mod... Vanilla doesn't crash though.
I have a path like the one you said...
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OK, quoting you edited like that to emphasize what I suspect to be the issue - besides the 4GigPatch and the "Compatibility" setting, which also contribute. Being in the Program Files folder with these old DirectX v9 games is the cause of a LOT of troubles on the 'modern' computer. The Stock version working fine, and the mods crashing is the main symptom. Windows interferes with your mod activation, and you do not get a complete GWX or LSH mod to play. Another possible contributor is if you did not clear (delete) the Save folder (defaults to "C:\Users \UserName \Documents \SH3") between the different mod activations and / or Stock.
If you have a Steam SH3, it is a little complicated to do the move, and the more Steam games you have installed, the more complicated it gets, and the longer it takes to accomplish. The Steam Knowledge Base has an article
Moving a Steam Installation and Games that gets into the details better than I can. You can do the move 'automatically' with the Steam app on your computer, or you can do it 'manually'. Either way is involved and the copy process with Steam takes a good while. If you have a 2nd (viable) hard drive - image or restore partitions do not count - then life is easier, and you can create another Steam Library folder on the 2nd hard drive.
If you have the disk version, or even the Ubisoft (or other) download, then you can usually copy your existing SH3 install folder, and then Paste it into a new folder you make that is NOT within the "C:\Program Files (x86)" path, such as make a folder "C:\MyGames" and then copy the 'clean' Stock "Silent Hunter III" root folder and everything below it, and then paste that inside your "C:\MyGames" folder. Create a shortcut to the SH3.exe file if desired, and mod that "install" of the game. If you want to run LSH and GWX, then make a 2nd copy of that game folder and use it for the other mod. A couple of caveats though (ain't there always?). Each folder name has to be unique as always. I usually name my root folder after the mod that I install, so change the one "Silent Hunter III" to "LSH202" and the other to "GWX". Now get a copy of
MultiSH3 and put it in each of those folders, and create unique 3-character Save folders for each copy of the game. Leave the Stock game where you have it for those times you feel like reminiscing with it, and let is use "SH3" for its Save folder, but do like "LSH" for Living Silent Hunter, and "GWX" for Grey Wolves eXpansion, or whatever you want, and then the mods do not interfere with each other.
Be sure and do the 4Gig Patch for each of your installs, and do like Stork100 and Kpt.Lehmann mention about setting the "Compatibility" of the SH3.exe file, which you can do when you clear that "Read-only" attribute. The disk version of the game is frozen in time with it installer, but it sure would be nice if Steam, Ubisoft and the others that sell a person these old game programs would update their installers, but alas, it is what it is.