Windows XP, Windows 7, Virtual PC, SHIII

[don1reed]

Right you are, Pisces.
P = pole (N)
X = Celestial body, at declination
Z = Zenith, at Latitude

[java`s revenge]

I really dont understand the problems with win7 / sh3 and mods

I have installed win7 ultimate 2 weeks ago and am playing sh3
without errors.

I run sh3 as winxp service pack 2 and don`t have any trouble.

[don1reed]

Howdy, Java.

Is your SH3 one of the originals or is it a newer version that has patch 1.4 built in?

[Buddahaid]

I had to buy the starforce free version to install SH3 on my Windows 7 Home 64bit system, and it works just fine. The OS was not compatible with the DRM software being the only problem.

[java`s revenge]

It is the original dvd from 4 years ago..

[SteveW1]

SH3 will run on Win 7 as long as you have the starforce free version and install the game to a non program files folder eg. C:/Games/SH3

I have been running SH3 on Win 7 since the first Beta release of WIn 7 with no problems by using those 2 steps.

Steve

[CaptainHaplo]

Good Points - but my DVD is the original with starforce - however you can get around that entirely by using the SH3 no-dvd exe that is SANCTIONED by UBI and posted/stickied here on Subsim by Neal.

*No other discussion of cracking games allowed - that was a one time thing with the permission of Ubisoft.

If you follow those directions - you never start SH4 till its patched and the no-dvd files added - meaning it never tries to install Starforce on your pc.

Also - and I did not mention it - but thanks to SteveW1 - do NOT install to program files. Install to a different directory! Windows 7 has some quirks if you do the default location.

[[SJ]nailz]

I wasn't paying much attention whilst installing and I let it install to the default directory and it runs fine from there, it's probably more to do with UAC than the game.

[don1reed]

Shazam! It works! (at least for me) Using the advice and directions above wherein I placed the install into "C:\Games\" followed by the "no cd" procedures.


THANK YOU, Gentlemen.

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

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Also - and I did not mention it - but thanks to SteveW1 - do NOT install to program files. Install to a different directory! Windows 7 has some quirks if you do the default location.

Yes, like [SJ]nailz says below. Those 'quirks' are really a feature from Microsoft. They try to protect your system from undesireable modifications to system files(which "Program Files" is considered also) by virus/worm attacks (and perhaps the thinks-he-knows-what-he-does-user). This is a good security measure in principle (hence I do not advice to turn off UAC, or make your useraccount have administrator abilities forever like it does in XP), but a real annoyance if you deliberately want to change game files due to modding.