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

[jerm138]

Glad it worked for you. Couple things:

does the water do funny things on nvidia cards? Like skip a frame every once in a while with it being really noticeable on time compression?

I use an ATI card and I have noticed a few funny things with the water. I occasionally get the skipped frame like you mentioned. It kills the immersion a little, but it's something I can live with. I don't expect anything to look good while using time compression since I'm almost always looking at the map when I do that.

Another funny thing I've noticed with the water is that when I pan left or right, regardless of if I'm looking through the scope, uzo, binoculars... whatever... the wave animation "speeds up" making it look like jiggly jell-o. Again, I can live with it, but haven't found a fix.

why is it that the all stop issued at the end of a course

If you plot a course, you're giving your crew an order to follow it. When you get to the end, they assume you wanted to stop there.

when you resume a save game causes damage to your ship? I randomly seem to end up with damage whenever I resume a save

I've occasionally had a weird anomaly where my crew yells out "taking damage!" when I load a game. I've noticed it happens if I save a game while I'm damaged, but don't seem to incur any extra damage when this happens.

Finally it seems that the steam version looks to me like a stock 1.3 dvd or something. That being said, there is no way to patch it outside of upgrading to the u-boat expansion

That's right. Not sure if it's a clever marketing scheme, or just lazy people working at Steam. Either way, it was worth the extra $5 to upgrade.

you cannot run the executable outside of steam (from what I can tell...launching sh4.exe also invokes steam...need to test this.....)

I didn't know you could run ANY game outside of Steam if you purchased it on Steam. People complain about it taking up too much resources, but I don't have a problem with it.

I don't know if stock sh4 came this way, but if you click off the high res textures option, you'll find that a lot of 512x512 textures are missing for various objects like the colorado battleship.

I've never used the low res textures. Can't help you there.