Multiple Installs

[frau kaleun]

I bought SH3 via download, so I don't have the stock disk. I want to do multiple installs, but after the first install (which allows me to select the HD location for it), when I try to do a second install I'm not getting that option any more. I'm getting the dialogue box asking if I want to modify, repair, or remove components. If I select modify or repair, do I get the option to do a complete install in a (different) location of my choosing?

Or is there some other way to make the installer give me that option?

[frau kaleun]

Okay never mind I did a search and think I found the solution, duh. Do one install and copy game files to another location, right?

[krashkart]

Hehe, yeah I know that feeling. Copying to another location usually works.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by krashkart

Hehe, yeah I know that feeling. Copying to another location usually works.

You know, I am learning so much stuff thru SH3. I never had multiple installs of a game before. I've never used mods with a game before. It never even occurred to me that things like mods existed.

Granted, I'm not much of a gamer, never have been. OTOH I don't think I've tried a game before that's not just "do x y and z and you get to the next level" and if you do that enough times YOU WIN! and that's all it has to offer, because if you play again it's just a rerun. (Honestly even those games, the few I have, I've never played one long enough to get to the YOU WIN! at the end.)

But this is something different entirely. Me likey.

[krashkart]

Yeah I like the open-ended games quite a lot. And modding, of course, opens up a whole new spectrum. Rainbow Six was the game that helped me find mods, and once that happened I was totally hooked. Even tried my hand at it a couple of times, but stuff gets in the way of it.

I wish Republic could have been modded.

EDIT: Follow the white rabbit, Neo. lol

[Sailor Steve]

First game I played that had mods for it was SH1. Hawk's Silent Hunter Utilities...what a rush!

[krashkart]

For me it's flight sims. Thought naval sims would be boring until I found a copy of Harpoon, then I sat there playing it till my eyes bled. After that was DW, now SH3. Glad to see the DW community still thriving. It's almost a work of art in its own right. I feel a hint of the long-dead Harpoon 4 when I play it (DW, that is).

Anyways, what the heck would a game be without mods?

[frau kaleun]

Ah well I now have a stock+1.4 vanilla install, with an install of SH3 Commander set up to run it from (because why not), plus a brand new SH3+1.4+GWX3 install with another install of Commander to run that from. Plus JSGME for the GWX versions of SH3 and Commander. And MultiSH3 to keep my save folders nice and tidy for the latter.

Plus if I want to try out the other supermods eventually, I'm covered as far as having a stock+1.4 game folder to copy and work from.

So far everything works. Now if I can just get my Gramophone situation straightened out, I'll be good to go. On a brand new career. Maybe there's another Witte brother floating around who I can send out for a patrol and a half before I find another reason to reinstall everything again.

This reminds me of when I decided to pull out my old Discworld game and try to make it run on XP. I had so much fun finding out about DOS emulators and installing one and setting it all up to run the game from the HD and creating a custom cfg file for it and a shortcut so I just had to click once to make it all load seamlessly... I never did get around to playing the game, lol.

[krashkart]

^^ I think she's hooked.

[frau kaleun]

Yeah, well, you know... at least it keeps me off the streets.

[krashkart]

There isn't an emoticon that would convey the chuckle that just erupted.

EDIT: Just made me laugh, that's all.

[ryanglavin]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

First game I played that had mods for it was SH1. Hawk's Silent Hunter Utilities...what a rush!

Don't bring back the memoriess!!! I still have SH1 somewhere, In my collection of classic video games... But i can't run it.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by ryanglavin

Don't bring back the memoriess!!! I still have SH1 somewhere, In my collection of classic video games... But i can't run it.

Hrm, try DosBox.

[frau kaleun]

That's what I used originally to set up Discworld. Then when I got the new computer and went to look up all the info again, I saw there was a "new improved" program, D-Fend Reloaded. So I got that... but it runs the game in an 800x600 window which is teeny tiny on my monitor and I wasn't able to figure out how to make it run full screen or at least in a bigger window. The way that program works, it creates a config file every time you open the game which means you don't have a custom one with all that stuff set up in it, that loads every time. Which is what I had with DosBox.

I think there should be a way to do it, but I haven't taken the time to go back in and whatever it is it wasn't something that was obvious when I was clicking around in the interface. I think I even took a backup copy of the config I'd been using before and tried to make the new emulator use it but it didn't work.

I may just go back to DosBox if I decide to run that game in the future. It was much more complicated to set up, but once that was done, at least it did what I wanted it to do.

[krashkart]

I find that I usually have to fiddle with the display settings a bit before I can really run a fullscreen game. I don't remember right offhand how I do it... I never take notes. Luckily the newer D-Fend makes it pretty easy. BTW, IIRC the original DosBox project was abandoned and absorbed into D-Fend. It's all one package now.