Reinstallation of SH3 to Install GWX3

Dutchman 51 · 04-20-10, 08:48 AM

Yesterday I ran into a problem trying to upgrade to GWX3 from my current GWX2. In order to upgrade to GWX3, you need to perform a clean install of SH3 and run the SH3 1.4b patch After uninstalling both SH3 and GWX2, reinstalling SH3, I then tried to run the SH31.4b patch. I get the following error message:

"The Program cannot update the installed version of Silent Hunter US DVD v1.0 to v1.3 because of the following reason: C:\programfiles\ubisoft\SilenthunterIII\data\Menu\ de_help.txt: unknown version."

The update program must be looking at this de_help.txt file to allow the update to proceed, so I am not sure why the update SH3 files does not like my reinstalled de_help.txt file. I uninstalled and reinstalled SH3 twice, used my second copy of SH3 disk to reinstall SH3 to run the update, and I still get the same error message. I even tried updating SH3 to v1.1 first, and I still get the same error message. I previously had not had a problem updating SH3, and have never seen this error message before. I also noticed when reinstalling SH3, the installation program does not ask me for my Install Key Code either, while at some point in the past the SH3 program requested the Key Code. I don't know if this has anything to do with my problem or not. I could not find the answer to my question in the GWX Support site, so I thought I would ask those in the know here for possible answers.

Thanks for your help.

MWV

04-20-10, 08:48 AM	#1
Dutchman 51 Seaman Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 33 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Reinstallation of SH3 to Install GWX3 Yesterday I ran into a problem trying to upgrade to GWX3 from my current GWX2. In order to upgrade to GWX3, you need to perform a clean install of SH3 and run the SH3 1.4b patch After uninstalling both SH3 and GWX2, reinstalling SH3, I then tried to run the SH31.4b patch. I get the following error message: "The Program cannot update the installed version of Silent Hunter US DVD v1.0 to v1.3 because of the following reason: C:\programfiles\ubisoft\SilenthunterIII\data\Menu\ de_help.txt: unknown version." The update program must be looking at this de_help.txt file to allow the update to proceed, so I am not sure why the update SH3 files does not like my reinstalled de_help.txt file. I uninstalled and reinstalled SH3 twice, used my second copy of SH3 disk to reinstall SH3 to run the update, and I still get the same error message. I even tried updating SH3 to v1.1 first, and I still get the same error message. I previously had not had a problem updating SH3, and have never seen this error message before. I also noticed when reinstalling SH3, the installation program does not ask me for my Install Key Code either, while at some point in the past the SH3 program requested the Key Code. I don't know if this has anything to do with my problem or not. I could not find the answer to my question in the GWX Support site, so I thought I would ask those in the know here for possible answers. Thanks for your help. MWV