So far, so good . . .

Well, my Alienware showed up (finally! ) this Tuesday. I've been transferring and setting up Silent Hunter III on it (which hasn't been fun, considering it's Windows 7) and have encountered a few quirks and annoyances in doing so.

For instance, I originally clean installed into a folder I'd named SH3 vanilla, located as C:\Silent Hunter III\SH3 vanilla. The installer kept coming up with an error, stating that the indicated install location folder was incomplete, write protected, etc. I finally got it to work by removing all spaces and replacing them with underscores, like so: C:\Silent_Hunter_III\SH3_vanilla



Then I accidentally kacked the multiple installs up, so I deleted and uninstalled all the iterations and locations, something I've easily done using XP SP3.

Not, however, with Windows 7.

Even with the drive scrubbed clean of any trace of installs, including the registry, when I tried to install it again I kept getting the "Modify/Repair/Remove" window. When I selected and ran the "Remove" option it wouldn't remove, instead stating that the .msi file was missing.

It took me hours, but I finally managed to get a clean install that worked. First thing I did was copy-and-paste, in order to have a clean vanilla install plus two others, one for GWX Gold and one for hardfixed GWX Gold.

I haven't, as yet, ran Hsie's or Stiebler's hardcode fixes. My understanding is that they should be the last mods incorporated. Below are the ones I'm (so far) using. It takes about 20 seconds for SH3 to load, and less than two minutes for a career to load!

GWX 3 Wilhemshafen,St Naz,Schluese and xtra ships V5
LifeBoats&Debris_v4
Wac Animated Sub Pens interior start for GWX
GWX - 16km Atmosphere
GWX - Integrated Orders
GWX - No Medals on Crew
New Uboat Guns 1.2
Urfischs_ModStrike_Beta1
Waterstream+Exhaust Combi V2.3 for GWX3
Tikigod's - Engine Order Telegraph (German)
Torpedo damage Final ver2.0
torpedo trail and wake fix
Depthcharge Shake v2.01
Aces' Combined SH3.SDL Files v2
Real Depth Charge
hydrophone depth charge
SH3-Fix_SN_2_Stock
Fix_UZO_R_stock
GWX Gold restricted Bino Mod
Q Ship mod GWX3.0
GWX3.0 Additional_Ammo
SH-5 Water for GWX 3.0 V0.9 Atlantic campaign (default)
Searchlights_Removed
KJF_Moon_v1.1
KB's Diesel Sound Mod
Merchant_Fleet_Mod_3.2

For the first time since I've started playing SHIII I want to start looking at some serious "eye-candy" mods!

~Albrecht von Hesse