Steam, Win10 and GWX 3.0 Gold

[rockmedic109]

Or the trials and tribulations of an elderly {or soon to be elderly} simmer.

I have a newer laptop. Win10. I installed steam version of Silent Hunter 3. I then downloaded and installed GWX 3.0 Gold. Icon in the right place. I load the game and it has the howling werewolf sound and screen {neat by the way}, get the GWX menu screen. Make a new U-boat commander {Stefan Dorch because I am...well....a dork}. Everything is just fine.

Then I try begin a patrol. Begins to load then CTD. Continues to CTD with everything I try. Starting with Commander and without it. New campaign or not. Administrator, compatibility mode for W7, XP sp3, XP sp2.

So I tear everything apart, re-install the game {with RUB 1.45 and a couple of other mods} and it works. So, it must be something I did wrong during installing GWX.

The only thing I can think of is GWX needs 1.4b and my game says 1.4. But I've read that steam is supposed to be the latest version.

Anybody have an idea on what I did wrong?