SH3 Commander Issue

[Phantom II]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Did you read what I wrote
Sh3commander will look for saves anywhere YOU tell it via MultiSH3

By your own admission you have used MultiSH3 before
So somewhere along the line you have told SH3 to save your careers in D drive
And thats where SH3Commander is looking for them
However the game is placing them in C drive

Could well be a Vista issue as Vista retains certain folders even though you think removed or not being retained
Am guessing when you set MultiSH3 to look at D drive for the careers and SH3commander followed that Vista has added back your old dll which is why SH3 is saving on C drive

Yes, I have told SH3 to save the career data in My Documents (which is the D drive), yet for some reason, it still saves it on the C drive.
MultiSH3 doesn't allow you to specify which drive to save your files on, only which folder within your My Documents folder, which is causing me the problem, since SH3 isn't saving my career data in My Documents to begin with.

[bigboywooly]

Well all I can suggest is rollback SH3commander and unistall that MultiSH3 and SH3
Start again
Removing from Vista is different
There is a Vista dedicated thread

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=105144

Somehow something has got screwed
As I said not used MultiSH3 as never felt the need despite 8 or 9 different installs but if you say it cant be pointed to a different drive then am not really sure why SH3commander is looking there for it

[Phantom II]

This is my second fresh install today, in order to solve this silly problem. And every time I run the game again, it creates the career data folder in C:\SH3 instead of D:\SH3 (My Documents) yet SH3 Commander for some reason searches for it in D:\SH3

[bigboywooly]

Is your operating system on C or D ?

[Phantom II]

My Operating System and SH3 are both on C, and D is purely for My Documents.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Could well be a Vista issue as Vista retains certain folders even though you think removed or not being retained
Am guessing when you set MultiSH3 to look at D drive for the careers and SH3commander followed that Vista has added back your old dll which is why SH3 is saving on C drive

I think you are pretty close to the mark, pardon the pun. It's so easy for people to get hung up on the symptoms that they miss the cause.

Phantom, some questions:

1. Did you upgrade an XP installation to Vista?
2. Click "Start", then right-click "Documents", then select "Properties", then select the "Location" tab. What is the FULL path displayed?
3. What is the FULL SH3 installation path?
4. What is the FULL SH3Cmdr installation path?

[Chisum]

About the soft, please, can you tell me why I have not an HTML personnal files ? Only a notepad personnal files...

Version 3.1.0.177 with GWX 3.0 Gold + GWX_21.1_Cfg_4_SH3Cmdr3.0.

[Phantom II]

Originally Posted by JScones

I think you are pretty close to the mark, pardon the pun. It's so easy for people to get hung up on the symptoms that they miss the cause.

Phantom, some questions:

1. Did you upgrade an XP installation to Vista?
2. Click "Start", then right-click "Documents", then select "Properties", then select the "Location" tab. What is the FULL path displayed?
3. What is the FULL SH3 installation path?
4. What is the FULL SH3Cmdr installation path?

1. No, its a fresh Vista Install (Completely formatted the entire computer before installing Vista)
2. D:\
3. C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII
4. C:\Program Files\SH3 Commander

Funny thing I noticed, is that if I specify a different folder in My Documents via MultiSH3, then SH3 Commander will look there, except the game itself stills saves the files on my C drive, because you can't specify different drives with MultiSH3.