Patch for sh4 1.4 to sh4 1.5

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Originally Posted by JonB

Hey people.

Long time since being here.

Thinking of starting the game up once again. Checked Steam if I should buy the game there instead of trying to install from my old DVD but after reading some reviews I hesitate. They mention crashes etc after a certain point in the campaign etc etc.
My feeling is the game is simply too old (and unsupported) for modern day windows but I could be wrong of course.

- Regarding the qoute above, is it better to go with original DVD and Ubisoft update or buy the Steam versions?
- Or am I just in for problems either way?

Thanks!

//JB

It depends upon what you are going to do with your game, and which version of the game your disk is. If it's Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific "Gold Edition", you are golden, and can add most of the mods avalable for the game. If you have a v1.3 or earlier version of the disk game, you can only update to v1.4 via a Ubisoft Patch that is available on SubSim here. None of the old patches, nor the "U-Boat Missions Add-On" downloads are available from Ubisoft. You can purchase the gold version DLC from them though. Steam works just as well as any version of the game. It is basically the same thing as the Ubisoft version, but has its own Steam licensing "security". Steam has two versions of the game. Version 1.3 is the "Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific" version, very similar to the most common disk version. It cannot be updated with the Ubisoft v1.4 patch. Only the Steam version of "U-Boat Missions Add-On can be use to "update" your Wolves of the Pacific" game. The main issue most people run into, whether old disk, new DLC from Ubisoft or Steam or elsewhere, is that the game still defaults to installing the game into the Windows "C:\Program Files (x86)\..." folder, which puts it under the influence of the Windows overlord, and no amount of modding will "take" when in either of the Program Files folders. You also have to edit the SH4.exe file to set it for your particular hardware set-up of display monitor and graphics card, which can also be daunting. But it can be cleanly run on any Windows from XP through v11, as of now... subject to change at any moment without notice...