Silent Hunter 4 And U-boat Missions On Steam!!

[jerm138]

Originally Posted by zosX

I just bought silent hunter IV and then the u-boat missions and the first thing I noticed was that certain ships were black, without texture. Specifically the colorado battleships that populate pearl harbor when you take off on your first mission. Odd. It seems something is wrong with the low res textures on the steam edition. Certain units are missing textures. Switching to the better texture set seems to fix this. Then I notice upon installing the u-boat missions that crew members on the bridge do not have eyes. Well it seems that a few mods fix this, and it seems that a lot of people have had this issue. (Shame on you ubisoft!) Speaking of which, what's with the texture with a picture of subsim.com printed across the side of a painted sub? Is this site owned by ubisoft or something or was that just merely a nod? I forget the file name, but it is there in the texture cache. Anyways, to make a long story short the maru mod fixes the eyes, but then upon launching the game again, steam went through its "updating game" and seemed to break and revert back to 1.3, without the u-boat missions. At this point I'm ready to break down and just download the isos. I mean, I bought the damned game. I redownloaded the whole 6-7 gig deal while I slept last night to awake and fire it up this morning to find that only 1.3 was installed again with no u-boat missions. I tried to fire the u-boat missions from steam and it updated itself again (argh) and it loads (with the correct title screen) to about the 80% and dies. Grrr. Trying to launch SH4 from steam again then results in "this game is not available." Wow. Now I have to redownload the whole thing. For the third time. Next time I am going to just back up the default stock installation. Is anyone successfully running mods with steam? And why the hell is the version of SH4 on steam only 1.3? Nice of ubisoft to make 1.5. Also I noticed you cannot seam to jailbreak the app by copying it to another directory, so it seems irrevocably tied to steam. Really not liking certain aspects of this. ISO seems the way to go, and considering the glaring bugs even on a final 1.5 patched version, I'm kind of disappointed. I did get to run one patrol and had a lot of fun (on version 1.3). I was ordered to go right up to the coastline of japan. After gunning a down a few ships I was systematically hunted by airplanes. I then pulled up into the Strait of Tokyo and gunned down a ship at night only to be hunted down by a japanese destroyer and somehow I sped up time too much and either a) had a collision or b) was destroyed by the destroyer. So much more fun than SH3 and I just can't place my finger on why, though I have always preferred american subs for a whole lot of reasons, like much better gear for instance.

I purchased mine on Steam and fortunately haven't had any problems like you're talking about. Minor issues here and there, but no gamebreakers.

You may want to uninstall it and start from scratch:

Start with a clean install, DON'T run the game yet, reboot, then defrag, then install U-Boat missions (v1.5), then reboot, then defrag, then add Mods. That is the order I followed. Not sure if it's overkill, but it worked.

Are you using the correct version of TMO along with the most recent patch?

Which video card are you using? Have you updated to the latest drivers?

Also, upon installing I recommend going into the game options in Steam and setting it to NOT update automatically, since that seems to be what caused one of your problems.

Hope this helps. I know how frustrating it can be to deal with stuff like this.