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08-23-17, 05:35 PM | #5221 | |
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i second PB's and scurvy's advice about the install folder. do not use the game default. i, myself, installed to c:\ubisoft\sh4. mostly because i anticipated also playing sh5. FOTRS is an excellent mod. play it stand-alone (without other mods applied after it). have fun. m
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08-24-17, 04:37 AM | #5222 |
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How do I do that from Steam? I move the files and it doesn't work. Thank you..
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08-24-17, 10:57 AM | #5223 |
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Wow, this post keeps getting further and further back, and takes longer to find each time... Page 324:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...91#post2496891 You log into steam on your computer, and use the library to control where the game installs... The quickie picture is The "instructions" are in that page 324 post. You can see that Steam is still in Program Files (x86), but that SH3 is in F:\ Games \ Steam, as is my SH5 install. You would do similar for your SH4 using your account. My SH4 on that computer is a Gold Edition DVD and is much easier to move. Older versions of the Steam SH series of games could be moved, but the newer ones have a different "licensing" scheme on them, and have to be "managed" now... sheesh... |
08-24-17, 04:46 PM | #5224 |
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Torpedo Realism
Just a quick note and question. I have .63 running but the torpedoes are WAY to reliable. Now I do have Dud Torpedoes checked but I have not had one fail me yet! I am all the way up into late '42. My difficulty level is set to NORMAL. Do I need to change anything in game?
Thanks, Joshua
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08-24-17, 08:03 PM | #5225 |
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I can't think of a thing we changed between 62 & 63 that would create the reliability... If you were into 1944 by chance, OK, but you're not.. Did you go into the Game Play Settings from the Captain's Office before you went out on patrol? Click on that wooden radio console over to the left side of the room, and change the settings there, and see how they do... I had five out of six duds just the other day using the contact pistol... Very frustrating to watch a flat top go by you at 24 knots, at 740 yards, then speed up to 30+ when they see a torp, which I had been anticipating that, and shot one shot dead center and the next five out front, only to have just the one torpedo go off, and the CV not even slow down... The DD screen sure did though, and half of them then sat on top of me for a good little while - for over an hour, doing damage just about everytime they passed over me. By the time they left, I barely got back to the surface, and had to call it quits for that patrol... Better than the one a few weeks before that, where they got me on the 2nd pass though...
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08-25-17, 05:35 AM | #5226 | |
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08-25-17, 07:10 AM | #5227 |
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You're modding your Steam v1.5 install correct? and not the v1.3? Or how does Steam do those installs? Even if you're on a different drive, did you change the folder structure so that there is NOT a "Program Files" folder name involved? Microsoft will "protect" any folder is deems is a system folder, including an "H:\ Program Files \" folder, and prevent mods from retaining the changes, especially the cfg files (found that out for myself in Vista 64 a few years ago)... Also - did you get rid of the "My Documents \ SH4" folder? That's your old Save folder and it ~will~ contaminate a fresh install. The only way to avoid that is to use MultiSH4 for different installs...
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08-25-17, 07:45 AM | #5228 |
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It''s........THE MICROSOFT BULLDOGS!!!
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08-25-17, 08:33 AM | #5229 | |
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I go through the Captains "radio" and adjust all my settings from there and Duds are selected. I just thought I would have a lot more problems out of the torps. I am using SHIV 1.5 by the way.
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08-25-17, 10:25 AM | #5230 | |
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Now it's E: > steam > steamapps > common > SH4 Same result....stopping at loading screen and will crash to desktop after I open task manager and click through the error messages. I have JSGME starting in my SH4 folder, would that be an issue? Something isn't adding up somewhere. I'm sure that together we can resolve this..I thank you all so much for your hard work, advice, and patience...I love this game so much and am recently getting back into it.
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08-25-17, 12:09 PM | #5231 | ||
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there'll be the Silent Hunter logo on top of this, of course, and the loading indicator v1.3 looks like this: |
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08-25-17, 03:13 PM | #5232 | |
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08-25-17, 05:58 PM | #5233 | |
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Admiral, your stock game "Version" can be found in the lower right hand corner of the games "Main Menu" page:
Steam sells you the 1.3 version (those guys could have at least sold the v1.4...a much better version than 1.3.....but Nooooooo!), with the expectation of getting you to buy the last patched version....v1.5, that also has the U-Boat Missions!! You apparently have v1.3 installed?? Fotrs Ultimate won't run on a 1.3 version of the game
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08-25-17, 06:57 PM | #5234 |
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Right now Admiral, it is $10US on Steam, but they should be having another sale sometime soon and taking it to $5... I don't think they do a Labor Day Sale, but there should be something coming up in a few weeks, if memory serves... In the meantime, you can get the whole game on like Amazon for $20 US. Follow the link from the SubSim Store here, and SubSim will get a commission on the sale.
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08-25-17, 09:24 PM | #5235 |
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It works! It works it works it works!!!
Thank y'all s much for the help. I'm not really an Admiral, I'm just a Petty Officer Second Class in real life by the way haha!
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