Can't install Silent Hunter 3 on Windows 7 - Page 2

Red October1984 · 02-08-13, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EnigmaMan

Great news, I got my game working!

I can post how I did it if anybody is interested.

Great!

Herr Kaleun, I declare you ready for patrol!

Synthfg · 02-09-13, 12:10 PM

So returning to the game after more than a year away,
Since I last played my PC has been upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 carrying my old silent hunter III GWX 3 patched to 1.4b with it

So of course starforce was now a problem,
rather than faffing with removing the whole thing I first tried
1) running the starforce removal tool
and
2) After finding it using rld-sh14.rar and overwiting the files in programme files/ubisoft/shiii

game then ran fine

So then I look around and find the 1.6b unofficial patch,
downloaded and tried to install, no joy

looked in the batch file, guessed that the nosf version was the one I wanted and after a bit of playing around (mostly getting rid of the error checks and zeroing in on the version I wanted) tricked it into working

Now running 1.6b, oh yeah baby

Now it's time to do some serious

Pisces · 02-09-13, 01:27 PM

What 1.6b patch?

Oh, nevermind. It's HSIE's fix:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=174225

SNAKE1937 · 02-14-13, 11:54 PM

I am glad you got it working -- But look up the list of threads and you will see a very good one which I made a comment on after I followed his "How To Do THis with Win 7" -- and it worked.

Look it over and see if you made you way through in a similar way.

Most important was to not install "Game Shadow", and some other stuff as well.

If you missed some of those steps you may be in for a "bummer" latter on, so the wise move may be to do it over correctly.

Just MHO.

02-09-13, 12:10 PM	#17
Synthfg Sparky Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 154 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	So returning to the game after more than a year away, Since I last played my PC has been upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 carrying my old silent hunter III GWX 3 patched to 1.4b with it So of course starforce was now a problem, rather than faffing with removing the whole thing I first tried 1) running the starforce removal tool and 2) After finding it using rld-sh14.rar and overwiting the files in programme files/ubisoft/shiii game then ran fine So then I look around and find the 1.6b unofficial patch, downloaded and tried to install, no joy looked in the batch file, guessed that the nosf version was the one I wanted and after a bit of playing around (mostly getting rid of the error checks and zeroing in on the version I wanted) tricked it into working Now running 1.6b, oh yeah baby Now it's time to do some serious

02-09-13, 01:27 PM	#18
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	What 1.6b patch? Oh, nevermind. It's HSIE's fix: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=174225

02-14-13, 11:54 PM	#19
SNAKE1937 Loader Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Colorado, summer/ Arizona, winter Posts: 90 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	I am glad you got it working -- But look up the list of threads and you will see a very good one which I made a comment on after I followed his "How To Do THis with Win 7" -- and it worked. Look it over and see if you made you way through in a similar way. Most important was to not install "Game Shadow", and some other stuff as well. If you missed some of those steps you may be in for a "bummer" latter on, so the wise move may be to do it over correctly. Just MHO.