Tech Problems: Can't Update

[Kadorak]

Hi folks,

I've encountered an odd and very frustrating problem in trying to play Silent Hunter 3 again. I hadn't played in a while, but I had an old copy, with an old version of GWX, on my machine from several years ago. Seeing that a newer version of Grey Wolves was now available, I uninstalled the whole kitten kaboodle (uninstall from add/remove programs, yes to delete save games/profiles, then deleted the entire SilentHunterIII folder to remove all modded files), as instructed so I could install the new version. Then I re-installed Silent Hunter III, and tried to patch up to the latest version. That's where the problems started. When starting any of the patches (I've tried 1.1 to 1.4b, and both download and DVD versions even though mine is clearly DVD) I get the following error message after "Checking...":

"The program cannot update the installed version of Silent Hunter III EMEA DVD 1.0 to 1.3 because of the following reason:

C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\menu\de_menu.tx t: unknown version."

I tried uninstalling again, installing again, uninstalling yet again and installing to a new directory this time in case it was some fragment from the old install... same error. Any advice? This is really frustrating!