Mod install order?

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by Skinny_Huesudo

Hello everyone!

My first post in this forum, and I'm already hijacking threads

I'm on a similar situation to Kkyarrick and AeiBigiu. I saw Wolfpack345's videos on YouTube and thought SH3 looked impressive for a 15 year old game, and after a long time I decided to give it a go again.

I decided to start simple and install GWX with the ARB widescreen mod first, but I'm already running into trouble.

I'm installing on top of the Steam version of SH3 on a modern PC running Windows 10, so the system requirements shouldn't be an issue. The vanilla game runs fine.

GWX installs fine, but it makes SH3 crash to desktop. It happens when I try to start a mission, a career patrol, and many times I try to enter the museum.

ARB widescreen mod runs fine over the vanilla game (haven't been able to run it with GWX for the reason mentioned above), but when I try to patch the executable to increase the map rendering resolution, I get an error message. Maybe the patcher was intended for the original version of the game and can't be used with the Steam version?

Make sure you have the 4GB patch installed and applied

[Skinny_Huesudo]

Originally Posted by Fifi

Make sure you have the 4GB patch installed and applied

Thanks. I guess I have to use the StarForce free version of the patch?

What about Tycho's patcher?

[Fifi]

If your game is star force free, yes.

Tycho patcher is provided with ARB Gui to get the nav map in full size (all screen)

[Skinny_Huesudo]

I reinstalled SH3, doing a clean install. Then I installed GWX3. But now I'm trying to apply the 4GB patch, but both executables say that I have an unknown version of SH3.exe.

I have SH3 from Steam, installed outside Program Files.

[Sailor Steve]

Rule #1: Install mods one at a time. Install your mod, then test, test, test.

That way if you screw it up, you may not know where the problem is, but at least you'll have an idea of where to start looking.

[Skinny_Huesudo]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Rule #1: Install mods one at a time. Install your mod, then test, test, test.

That way if you screw it up, you may not know where the problem is, but at least you'll have an idea of where to start looking.

It goes like this:

Install SH3, it runs Ok.
Install GWX3, it crashes.
Try to install the 4GB patch, it refuses to install.

[Fifi]

Make sure your SH3.exe is set to NO read only.
Right click on it, and in properties, uncheck the box « read only ». Otherwise the exe won’t patch...
While here, make sure it’s on windows 7 compatibility, and check the « run as administrator » .