A desperate plea for help technical games issue for SH3 & 4

rascal101 · 07-02-08, 07:07 AM

Hi to all,

I have been a long time SH3 & 4 player; recently I had reason to reformat my hard drive, so for a while I have had the pleasure of reinstalling everything on my PC.

Now here's the thing, I'm having real difficulties reinstalling all my old favorite games.

After numerous attempts with SH3 I decided perhaps my disk was too beat up so I bought a new game, just reinstalled and went to patch it, no dice, I get the following error
c/program files\ubisoft\silenthunterIII\anim.act:unknown version, Can some one help.

Then with SH4 I reinstall, then install the patches, no problem except when I open the game it shows vers 1, and the U-boat missions disk doesn’t work either I cant patch to vers5 and cant therefore play U-boat missions.

Another favorite game Medieval Total war, I cannot patch this either, and it keeps crashing.

So my question is, after a complete reformatted hard drive, and a completely virgin registry, and a new windows XP install, and everything running and in perfect order, it seems none of the games I have enjoyed for so long will play or can be patched.

Does any one have any ideas?

Rascal

Mittelwaechter · 07-03-08, 06:13 AM

Hi rascal101,

did you install DirectX9.0c?

And did you install all the service packs and patches for XP?
Latest graphics and sound drivers matching your hardware?
Common codeces for playing videos and movies?

07-02-08, 07:07 AM	#1
rascal101 Grey Wolf Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 769 Downloads: 200 Uploads: 0	A desperate plea for help technical games issue for SH3 & 4 Hi to all, I have been a long time SH3 & 4 player; recently I had reason to reformat my hard drive, so for a while I have had the pleasure of reinstalling everything on my PC. Now here's the thing, I'm having real difficulties reinstalling all my old favorite games. After numerous attempts with SH3 I decided perhaps my disk was too beat up so I bought a new game, just reinstalled and went to patch it, no dice, I get the following error c/program files\ubisoft\silenthunterIII\anim.act:unknown version, Can some one help. Then with SH4 I reinstall, then install the patches, no problem except when I open the game it shows vers 1, and the U-boat missions disk doesn’t work either I cant patch to vers5 and cant therefore play U-boat missions. Another favorite game Medieval Total war, I cannot patch this either, and it keeps crashing. So my question is, after a complete reformatted hard drive, and a completely virgin registry, and a new windows XP install, and everything running and in perfect order, it seems none of the games I have enjoyed for so long will play or can be patched. Does any one have any ideas? Rascal

07-03-08, 06:13 AM	#2
Mittelwaechter The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,304 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Hi rascal101, did you install DirectX9.0c? And did you install all the service packs and patches for XP? Latest graphics and sound drivers matching your hardware? Common codeces for playing videos and movies? __________________ 10 happy wolves rear 90 blinded, ensnared sheep. 90 happy sheep banish the wolves. Arrest the 1% - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ6hg1oNeGE