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Von Manteuffel · 02-25-07, 10:36 AM

Sincerest thanks to everyone who responded.

I tried Reallydedpoet's trick with Starforce, but to no avail - Vista wouldn't let me run a vanilla installation of Sh3 until I'd updated the Starforce driver, so that threw his carefully detailed sequence out.

It was JScones analysis of the installation message, questioning whether, or not I WAS updating to 1.04b which prompted me to try again and examine closely the list of changes made by the patch installation. It said that SH3 had been successfully updated, but when I looked closely, item, by item at the list of changes I discovered that the patch was unable to "remove" certain sound files from the data/sounds/speech folders. These were chiefly the .ogg files in the NaO part of the lists which dealt with "range-to-target-over-ten-thousand...." and "range_to_target_under-one-hundred....." The failure was common to all the Speech En folders and others.

Since the failure was in "removal" I deleted them manually, then re-ran the 1.04b patch. After a restart I ran SH3 and, to my delight, saw the magic "v. 1.04" in the bottom right-hand corner.

Needless to say, it wasn't long before I heard the howl and am now running Grey Wolves.

Thanks again for all you help. I think the answer will only truly come when VISTA is properly upgraded, but it IS possible, with help such as I received from you wonderful people, to find ways around.

How does Grey Wolves run on the new Dell XPS M1710? Oh boy!

02-25-07, 10:36 AM	#7
Von Manteuffel Commander Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Posts: 473 Downloads: 411 Uploads: 0	VISTA problem with 1.04b Patch Sincerest thanks to everyone who responded. I tried Reallydedpoet's trick with Starforce, but to no avail - Vista wouldn't let me run a vanilla installation of Sh3 until I'd updated the Starforce driver, so that threw his carefully detailed sequence out. It was JScones analysis of the installation message, questioning whether, or not I WAS updating to 1.04b which prompted me to try again and examine closely the list of changes made by the patch installation. It said that SH3 had been successfully updated, but when I looked closely, item, by item at the list of changes I discovered that the patch was unable to "remove" certain sound files from the data/sounds/speech folders. These were chiefly the .ogg files in the NaO part of the lists which dealt with "range-to-target-over-ten-thousand...." and "range_to_target_under-one-hundred....." The failure was common to all the Speech En folders and others. Since the failure was in "removal" I deleted them manually, then re-ran the 1.04b patch. After a restart I ran SH3 and, to my delight, saw the magic "v. 1.04" in the bottom right-hand corner. Needless to say, it wasn't long before I heard the howl and am now running Grey Wolves. Thanks again for all you help. I think the answer will only truly come when VISTA is properly upgraded, but it IS possible, with help such as I received from you wonderful people, to find ways around. How does Grey Wolves run on the new Dell XPS M1710? Oh boy!