Questions, more questions and then some...

[ubootmate]

Originally Posted by John Pancoast

1. No idea. Is Commander installed correctly ? I like putting it in the game install root directory.
For that matter, post your games install path.

First of all a big THANX to you for trying to tackle my knowledge shortage!
Lets start with the first issue.



To answer your question:
Both programs have seperate folders.
The Game (SH3) is located in the obvious "Ubisoft/SilentHunterIII" path, while Commander has its own path, namely "SH3 Commander".
Anything wrong with that setup?


Oh and then there`s something I read earlier on the Ubisoft forum about the SH3 Commander:


"Runyan, it does a lot of things. Some good, some unexpected. If you launch the game through it it will change your crew rankings to German from English. But there is one ehem, "negative effect". depending on your defintion of negaitve
It will make changes to the tonnage of merchant ships - for example a C2 goes from 6200 tons w/o the mod applied down to 4400 tons or so, a T3 goes down to 8800 from ~11,000 etc. Renown is unaffected.
You do NOT have to run the game through it and you can roll back the changes it made at anytime- just be aware that you'll prolly want to edit the merchant ship tonnage back up to defaults if you do launch the game through SH3Commander."


The entire postings can be found here:


https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthrea...-SH3-COMMANDER


Is this true? Or are these flaws (reduced tonnage values) corrected with the later versions of the SH3 commander since these postings are from 2005!

[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by ubootmate

First of all a big THANX to you for trying to tackle my knowledge shortage!
Lets start with the first issue.



To answer your question:
Both programs have seperate folders.
The Game (SH3) is located in the obvious "Ubisoft/SilentHunterIII" path, while Commander has its own path, namely "SH3 Commander".
Anything wrong with that setup?


Oh and then there`s something I read earlier on the Ubisoft forum about the SH3 Commander:


"Runyan, it does a lot of things. Some good, some unexpected. If you launch the game through it it will change your crew rankings to German from English. But there is one ehem, "negative effect". depending on your defintion of negaitve
It will make changes to the tonnage of merchant ships - for example a C2 goes from 6200 tons w/o the mod applied down to 4400 tons or so, a T3 goes down to 8800 from ~11,000 etc. Renown is unaffected.
You do NOT have to run the game through it and you can roll back the changes it made at anytime- just be aware that you'll prolly want to edit the merchant ship tonnage back up to defaults if you do launch the game through SH3Commander."


The entire postings can be found here:


https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthrea...-SH3-COMMANDER


Is this true? Or are these flaws (reduced tonnage values) corrected with the later versions of the SH3 commnder since this postings are from 2005!

1. The root of your problems are the game's install path. Never allow the game to install to it's default as doing so causes problems with applying mods, etc.
Make a path for it to install to, i.e. c:\sh3, etc.
2. That tonnage info. applied to an early version of Commander. The last one has an option box to check as to whether to use that feature or not.

[ubootmate]

Originally Posted by John Pancoast

1. The root of your problems are the game's install path. Never allow the game to install to it's default as doing so causes problems with applying mods, etc.
Make a path for it to install to, i.e. c:\sh3, etc.
2. That tonnage info. applied to an early version of Commander. The last one has an option box to check as to whether to use that feature or not.

Greetings, Mr. Pancoast (nice name by the way ) and thanks for offering your two cents.



Okay, just to be sure, to make it work from scratch I will deinstall both programs and reinstall them in a new folder with the name you suggested - like right now.
Where exactly in the commanders setup is this feature?

As a sidenote: My Commander version is v3.2.0.203. Is that the latest, up-to-date variety of the program?? If not, what is the newest version and where can I get it?



Greetings
U-mate

[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by ubootmate

Greetings, Mr. Pancoast (nice name by the way ) and thanks for offering your two cents.



Okay, just to be sure, to make it work from scratch I will deinstall both programs and reinstall them in a new folder with the name you suggested - like right now.
Where exactly in the commanders setup is this feature?

As a sidenote: My Commander version is v3.2.0.203. Is that the latest, up-to-date variety of the program?? If not, what is the newest version and where can I get it?



Greetings
U-mate

1. Be sure to also delete any files found in a path such as c:\documents\sh3. Your path won't look like that but something similar depending on your OS version.
2. I like installing Commander in the game install folder. I.e., if I have the game installed in c:\sh3, Commander is installed to that path.
3. You have the correct, last version of Commander.

[ubootmate]

Originally Posted by John Pancoast

1. Be sure to also delete any files found in a path such as c:\documents\sh3. Your path won't look like that but something similar depending on your OS version.
2. I like installing Commander in the game install folder. I.e., if I have the game installed in c:\sh3, Commander is installed to that path.
3. You have the correct, last version of Commander.

Yup, correct intervention, Mr. Pancoast.
Got that box checked as well.
I found two of my profiles (2 Kaleuns) in the folder
"documents/personal documents/SH3" and deleted them instantly.

Regarding the new installation:
The CD asks me to install the install shield wizard first - which I have just completed.

After accepting the the license contract setup wants me to name the the target folder, where the program shall be installed to.


I created a folder named "silenthunter3" so the final path looks like this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\silenthunter3


Now the program asks me to select a program folder for the game and suggests "Ubisoft\Silent Hunter III", but my newly created one is not selectable
and the ubisoft folder is not located in my self created "silenthunter3"-Folder.
So, what to do here?

[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by ubootmate

Yup, correct intervention, Mr. Pancoast.
Got that box checked as well.
I found two of my profiles (2 Kaleuns) in the folder
"documents/personal documents/SH3" and deleted them instantly.

Regarding the new installation:
The CD asks me to install the install shield wizard first - which I have just completed.

After accepting the the license contract setup wants me to name the the target folder, where the program shall be installed to.


I created a folder named "silenthunter3" so the final path looks like this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\silenthunter3


Now the program asks me to select a program folder for the game and suggests "Ubisoft\Silent Hunter III", but my newly created one is not selectable
and the ubisoft folder is not located in my self created "silenthunter3"-Folder.
So, what to do here?

Sorry, I should have been more specfiic; do not install anywhere in the Program Files, etc. paths.
Only install directly to a folder outside of them. I.e., instead of the path you have listed, make one on your main hard drive.
I.e., c:\silenthunter3 < - note the removing of the programfiles path. c = whatever your main hard drive is called.

[ubootmate]

Originally Posted by John Pancoast

Sorry, I should have been more specfiic; do not install anywhere in the Program Files, etc. paths.
Only install directly to a folder outside of them. I.e., instead of the path you have listed, make one on your main hard drive.
I.e., c:\silenthunter3 < - note the removing of the programfiles path. c = whatever your main hard drive is called.

Fine, no problem, got that down too.
But the question remains even after creating "c:/silenthunter3" :

After installshield Wizard accepted this particular path to install the game to, he asks me to selest a program folder for the game and suggests "ubisoft\Silent Hunter III" or select one from the existing ones - and unfortunately the newly created is not one of the selectable ones....