A difficult technical problem...

[Alfamemnon]

Hi folks

One day I noticed my Silent Hunter 4 with Uboat Missions had stopped working. I went through all possible technical issues and solutions to them that I could find on these message boards as well as used all my computer expertise. Things I have attempted:

1) Deleting sh4 saves folder
2) Deleting JSGME and all mods
3) Uninstalling and then deleting all registry entries pointing out to sh4 and any suspicious registry entries pointing to “silent” (and probably being connected to sh4) and then installing it again.
4) Downloading the very latest drivers for my 8800 series Geforce video card
5) Trying to find out what dll files does the Uboat missions need (without success)
6) Installing the game to a different folder path than before
7) Changing the link in Properties box from Silent Hunter 4 Wolves of the Pacific\gu.exe to Silent Hunter 4 Wolves of the Pacific\sh4.exe

The load screen comes normally and the load indicator stars going forward like it should…then it suddenly stops and hard drive stops loading too (right before this happens, the load indicator leaps forward like it had loaded A WHOLE LOT all of a sudden). Same occurs with mods.

It seems these problems emerged after I had tried a few mods, installed some other games and downloaded the spring 2009 drivers for my video card (I thought those drivers were faulty so I tried to correct everything by downloading the end of August 2009 drivers from Nvidia).

I don’t think my copy has steam. SH4 has so far run even though I have a habit to tell my firewall to jealously disallow games from snitching me out to third parties in internet. With Steam that would probably be a big no no.

Nothing has worked so far. I would be grateful if you guys could help me out.

Alfamemnon