Heads up on SH3 (non?) availability

JerseySeven · 05-29-21, 05:47 PM

I decided to try Living Silent Hunter III -2020. Glad I kept my old DVD version of SH3.

Thought I'd save the hassle and just download it from Ubisoft. My install key code was deemed invalid. I went to Steam, and the same thing... invalid code.

So I thought for $2.50 I'd buy a new copy from UPlay. Nope. The product screen was going to send me to checkout for about a second then a second screen came up and said the product was no longer available.

Steam wants $9.99 so instead, I grabbed my external CD/DVD usb drive (my year old computer case doesn't have a bay for any kind of drive other than internal HDD or SDD) and did the disk install.

Once the game was on my SSD, I was able to install LSH3-2020 and DGui for 1920x1080 and all is right with the world!

divemonkie · 05-30-21, 03:39 PM

I really like having hard copies of all my games.
Ebay still has em, thats where I got SH3 and 4 but passed on SH5, I'd already gotten it from Uplay or Ubisooft. Even than first thing I do on any clean install is make a copy of the game folder and save it on my passport external drive.

some games I wish they'd release on dvd
DCS World
IL 2 the new one. already have all the old Madox games.
Uboat.

I hate all this new steam everything. I know it's convenient for publishers and developers but my interweb access can be pretty crappy at times.

iambecomelife · 06-01-21, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by JerseySeven

I decided to try Living Silent Hunter III -2020. Glad I kept my old DVD version of SH3.

Thought I'd save the hassle and just download it from Ubisoft. My install key code was deemed invalid. I went to Steam, and the same thing... invalid code.

So I thought for $2.50 I'd buy a new copy from UPlay. Nope. The product screen was going to send me to checkout for about a second then a second screen came up and said the product was no longer available.

Steam wants $9.99 so instead, I grabbed my external CD/DVD usb drive (my year old computer case doesn't have a bay for any kind of drive other than internal HDD or SDD) and did the disk install.

Once the game was on my SSD, I was able to install LSH3-2020 and DGui for 1920x1080 and all is right with the world!

Good going. I keep clean installs of SH3/4 on my WD passport drives/thumbnails that I can copy and paste at will if I ever need to reinstall the OS.

05-29-21, 05:47 PM	#1
JerseySeven Random# Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: TX Posts: 73 Downloads: 142 Uploads: 0	Heads up on SH3 (non?) availability I decided to try Living Silent Hunter III -2020. Glad I kept my old DVD version of SH3. Thought I'd save the hassle and just download it from Ubisoft. My install key code was deemed invalid. I went to Steam, and the same thing... invalid code. So I thought for $2.50 I'd buy a new copy from UPlay. Nope. The product screen was going to send me to checkout for about a second then a second screen came up and said the product was no longer available. Steam wants $9.99 so instead, I grabbed my external CD/DVD usb drive (my year old computer case doesn't have a bay for any kind of drive other than internal HDD or SDD) and did the disk install. Once the game was on my SSD, I was able to install LSH3-2020 and DGui for 1920x1080 and all is right with the world!

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05-30-21, 03:39 PM	#2
divemonkie Medic Join Date: Aug 2018 Posts: 166 Downloads: 1031 Uploads: 0	I really like having hard copies of all my games. Ebay still has em, thats where I got SH3 and 4 but passed on SH5, I'd already gotten it from Uplay or Ubisooft. Even than first thing I do on any clean install is make a copy of the game folder and save it on my passport external drive. some games I wish they'd release on dvd DCS World IL 2 the new one. already have all the old Madox games. Uboat. I hate all this new steam everything. I know it's convenient for publishers and developers but my interweb access can be pretty crappy at times.