UPLAY Download Fix For Silent Hunter 5

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by vdr1981

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EDIT: Also my advice for all SH5 player is to disable automatic game updates and always use uplay in offline mod because you never know when those charlatans from ubi will decide to screw up your game...

Going by what I am seeing with my UPlay SH4 on the Windows 10 laptop, I cannot permanently turn off the "Searching for updates..." from Ubisoft / UPlay, which is very similar to what Steam does each time it starts (perhaps disconnecting the internet while starting??). I also am no longer able to copy my original SH5 install and move it to another folder for a TWoS activation. It will always attempt to update the original install. Maybe the TWoS installer follows the Windows Registry (Hive)?? I can turn the "Online" mode off, but then the next time I start the game, UPlay has re-enabled the "Online" mode and searches for updates and attemtps to "sync" the Saves... Sort of like Windows 10, I can control certain aspects, but the program will put them right back the way it wants things set-up. I am expecting a "change" each time I start the games in Windows 10 now, both my UPlay SH4 and my Steam SH5 & SH3, all three of which I have modded, but everything is fine for now. I have no similar issues on any of the Win7 computers, with disk installs of SH4 and Steam installs of SH3 and SH5, all of which are modded...

[Pultti10]

So, this seems like we UPLAY men shall go to bottom in our U-BOOT with our flags waving.
I updated the game and then observed that TWoS do not work anymore and found the reason from this thread.

I see that my only choice is to uninstall TWoS and play the commercial version only. This is so sad but so is submariner's life.

[vdr1981]

Originally Posted by Pultti10

So, this seems like we UPLAY men shall go to bottom in our U-BOOT with our flags waving.
I updated the game and then observed that TWoS do not work anymore and found the reason from this thread.

I see that my only choice is to uninstall TWoS and play the commercial version only. This is so sad but so is submariner's life.

Don't fall into depression yet "uplay Captain". Just get a working sh5 executable and continue to enjoy sh5 with TWoS...

[stellaferox]

Only thing that is nasty is that you cannot use cloud synchronizing anymore. I play the game on my desktop and laptop and cannot port the saved games.

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi SF

I play the game on my desktop and laptop and cannot port the saved games

You should still be creating saved games as when you installed the game from your desktop your installation would have created a saved games folder in C:\Documents\SH5

Only thing that is nasty is that you cannot use cloud synchronizing anymore.

Exactly what I am saying the games you are loading are coming from your own saved games folder.

Peter

[stellaferox]

Hi Peter,

That doesn't work. Of course I copied my saved games form the SH5 folder in Documents. I have it on Dropbox to synchronize between laptop and desktop, but still the game starts from scratch after I reinstalled it on the laptop and won't pick up on the progress I made on the desktop.
There have to be more files that are critical for recognizing the advance in the campaign.

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi sf

I copied my saved games form the SH5 folder in Documents.

You cannot do that.
You cannot just copy your save game folder to another place of your choice unless you use MultiSH5 first which will allow you to set a new path and 3 digit code.
Peter