Greetings Team,
This post is an unconventional method for getting your NYGM with the HSIE patch, up and running and out on patrol in fast method.
Background. I have been playing Silent Hunter 3 since April of 2016. That would still be junior status compared to some of you.
I love this game yet don't have a lot of real life time to do coding, modding fixes. Thus the time I have I like to be out on patrol.
I have a lot of hours in playing Silent Hunter III in full "realism" mode. I have only played GWX3 and NYGM mods.
I take full responsibility for my inability to get the HSIE patch and its follow on upgrades integrated. It isn't for a lack of trying, re-reading specific published instructions and trying again from scratch. I just have never been able to get the HSIE patch to integrate with my system.
I am a Windows 10 user and get my Silent Hunter III via Steam. I suspect this is part of my difficulty and I may just have to someday get a proper Silent Hunter III DVD and do everything that way. However that takes time I don't really have.
So, I stumbled on a way that gets NYGM up with HSIE in a fast and reliable way given my configuration. This works for me yet I can't claim it will work with you. Use at your own risk. The root of the process uses a really great mod, Living Silent Hunter 3 2015 as a stalking horse.
So here are the steps that worked for me.
1. Install Steam on your Windows 10 PC.
2. Buy/Install Silent Hunter III via Steam.
3. Once the install is done, copy the full Silent Hunter III folder to a new folder you have created on your C drive. Example, C:\NYGM
4. Copy the full contents of your Living Silent Hunter3 2015 install files into this folder.
5. Run the install for Living Silent Hunter.
6. Once done, open up the MODS folder that LSH3 2015 created.
7. Create a folder called LSH and put all of the LSH3 2015 packages in that folder minus the _LSH3-2015__Patch_HSIE-V16B1
8. Put into the Mods folder all of your favorite NYGM packages.
9. Out in the root SH3 install. Delete the folder that has all of your Silent Hunter 3 Commander content.
10. Install the classic Silent Hunter Commander program that would work normally with NYGM.
11. Activate your JSGME packages as per NYGM requirements.
12. Arrange your shortcuts in a space you like for your Silent Hunter 3 (now called LSH3 2015 Start), JSGME (now called LSH3 2015 JSGME), SH3 Commander, and your LSH3 2015 HSIE Options.
13. Set original Exe files that the Shortcuts point to in compatibility mode for Windows 7 and to Launch as Administrator.
14. For the HSIE Options selector, only use it when your JSGME HSIE package is deactivated.
15. Of course in your Mod Soup, _LSH3-2015__Patch_HSIE-V16B1 should be activated with JSGME, last.
16. Deactivate Steam if necessary. You will not be involving Steam anyway as you will be launching your NYGM setup via the root of the folder in C drive you created.
Yes, this is:
1. An ugly way to do this.
2. It is fast with minimal hassle.
3. In the spirit of things falls into a useful fidelity with the creators of Silent Hunter III: you did purchase it.
I want to personally thank NYGM for creating such a wonderful product. It is fun and fills it what would be golf time or bass boat time for other people in a really rewarding way.
This is my first time using the HSIE patch. Using NYGM with the HSIE add on is amazing. I like the watch officer posting properly and the Oxygen management to mention a few.
My JSGME setup. That LSH on the left is a folder with all installed Living Silent Hunter 3 2015 packages that are not used.
My desktop shortcuts (ignore the 4th one, an unrelated text file).
My HSIE Options when you open it. However note, I am still learning what I should use.
