Silent hunter III with steam

[Leoz]

Originally Posted by subsimfrank

Is it possible to get a widescreen mod for SH3 on steam? I own the physical copy, but it's a pain to patch the game. I am thinking of buying SH3 on steam, but obviously want to play in widescreen.


Can you help?

I have used Win10, Steam, SHIII via Steam, GWX3 and Widescreen GUI 1920x1080 (Ahnenerbe) with no problems.

The attention to detail with Ahnenerbe is outstanding. I have one issue (having used it with GWX3 only) is the Whiz-wheel on the periscope is not accurate for range. Nor are the mil readings on the scope. (which might be a GWX issue?). For example: with a 6x periscope setting, a 25M target height (mast or whatever) should give a range of 2000 meters at 50mils.
It does not.
If this was fixed up the mod would be near PERFECT.
PERFECT would be another option to get rid of the Whizwheels for newer scopes circa 41 and after. I will defer to Hitman or some other historical observer of this area of interest. But it would be unlikely for a VIIC sub to have any whizwheels on the scopes (as if it was part of the stadimeter...which we know SHIII does not accurately replicate anyway.)
Again though Ahnenerbe is just really nice.

[HerrRitter]

I've using the Steam version of SHIII, and it worked perfectly. I downloaded the GWX megamod, and put into the Steam folder where I keep SHIII. Everything works fine, until I attempt to start a campaign. It crashes, everytime.


Is there some way around this? Have I made a mistake, somewhere along the way.


Note that when I load the game, via Steam, it loads like the Grey Wolves mod, the Academy looks like Grey Wolves, and I set up the campaign properly. It just doesn't load the campaign ... it loads about 80% of it, and then crashes.


EDIT: My computer uses Windows 10. I tried compatibility mode for the game in Windows XP, and it works perfectly.

[stork100]

All hail WinXP compatability mode.

[HerrRitter]

Amen to that, mate!

Hi guys,

Can someone tell me where I can get a digital copy of Silent Hunter III now?

Is there anything apart from Steam?

Thanks

Sittingwolf

[HerrRitter]

I know that you can buy it off of Steam ... my copy of it works perfectly, with GWX. You can also buy it off of Amazon, and Ubisoft still sells it (that's strange, considering that they no longer sell SH5).

Originally Posted by HerrRitter

I know that you can buy it off of Steam ... my copy of it works perfectly, with GWX. You can also buy it off of Amazon, and Ubisoft still sells it (that's strange, considering that they no longer sell SH5).

Thanks HerrRitter,

I am gonna check out all those options.

If I can run GWX on one of them NYGM should work smooth too.

Not sure about LSH or WAC

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi guys
You can buy a second hand SH3 dvd quite cheaply on places like Ebay.
All you need to know is that you purchase a Starforce free copy.
Just email the seller and ask him what color the dvd is.
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Peter