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Originally Posted by Babazzu

In the library I believe more than a hundred but I didn't count them and I know how to install the game and the mod that had always worked by god. The problem lies elsewhere, I swear it is not an elementary problem or it would already be solved.

Where is your Steam Library though? If it's in a "C:\Program Files" folder with Steam, that it the problem. You'll have to move the game's install location, as mentioned above. Steam can stay where it is. The game folder has to be changed. Sorry it's redundant, but you still didn't say where it was. Having a lot of games makes the move very tedious if you only have one hard drive. Do you have a fast external drive you could use?

The problem lies with Windows and its UAC (User Access Control), which with other "technologies" will "protect" your computer from "unauthorized" alterations in key "system" folders (sorry for all of the quote marks), of which the "Program Files" folders are such. Since neither JSGME nor Silent Hunter were written for UAC (Windows Vista and later), Windows does not "see" a JSGME activated mod as an "authorized" alteration of files in the game's folder, and Windows ~will~ change them back to their original "installed" condition. By putting the Steam Library in a folder you make, such as "C:\Games \Steam \etc.", then Windows doesn't care what happens in that folder...

Steam will do similar with a game if you "Validate" the game, no matter what folder you used. While you do need the Steam app to start the game (license authorization), you can copy and mod as much as you want and have the hard drive space for. Just make a Steam shortcut for each, and use MultiSH3 to keep each copy's Save folder separate from the others.