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Originally Posted by Albrecht Von Hesse

Well, my Alienware showed up (finally! ) this Tuesday. I've been transferring and setting up Silent Hunter III on it (which hasn't been fun, considering it's Windows 7) and have encountered a few quirks and annoyances in doing so.

For instance, I originally clean installed into a folder I'd named SH3 vanilla, located as C:\Silent Hunter III\SH3 vanilla. The installer kept coming up with an error, stating that the indicated install location folder was incomplete, write protected, etc. I finally got it to work by removing all spaces and replacing them with underscores, like so: C:\Silent_Hunter_III\SH3_vanilla



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~Albrecht von Hesse

Windows can be annoying when it comes to spaces in folder and file names. Especially when it somehow involves (Dos) command-line parameters. The solution in those cases is to write such space-containing paths inside double quotes:

"C:\This folder path to\Silent Hunter 3\should work fine"

But normally application installers should be able to handle these issues. Especially since the default install location is inside "Program Files", which contains a space. It does seem like the Ubisoft developers decided to deliberately choose to name the install folder "SilenthunterIII". In SH4 and SH5 they named it "Silent Hunter #". Odd behaviour really.