Silent Hunter Series: Woeful, Brilliant or Both? - Page 2

scott_c2911 · 10-27-13, 04:35 PM

This is going to be a long thread just to warn everyone. It started many years ago when I was a child with a Windows 95 PC and Silent Hunter 1. The game didn't work! I was extremely unhappy and I may have shed a few tears. This is the experience I was to have with all of the future releases of Silent Hunter but maybe without the tears and more profanities as I grew older. Silent Hunter 1 did eventually play on a Windows 98 PC that had a 64mb shared graphics capability and I must say I spent an unbelievable amount of time playing it. It was awesome! I was immediately hooked on the whole Submarine Simulator idea.
Then Silent Hunter 2 came along with its revolutionary graphics and new Windows ME PC. Guess what? It didn't work either. I wasn't that bothered this time as going to war against my own countrymen (I'm from the UK) did go against the grain a little.
While I was studying Marine Biology at university I spent my student loan on a Windows XP Laptop and bought Silent Hunter 3. I regretted that more. The money could have been better spent down the "boozer" but at least I had Silent Hunter 2 to fall back on. Silent Hunter 3 didn't work at all but Silent Hunter 2 did. The bugs made the game practically unplayable though!
Now several years on I have bought Silent Hunter 4 and Silent Hunter 5 (last week!) and wish I hadn't have bothered! I have spent thousands of pounds on PCs, Laptops, Graphics Cards and RAM and the only one out of the FIVE games that works is Silent Hunter 3 on an old Windows XP PC with far too much RAM hanging out of the Motherbaord and a fairly good Graphics Card in the PCI slot.
Why would I bother you may ask me? The small slices of the games I was able to sample between the Blue Screen of Death and the annoying Crash to Desktop errors was so brilliant that I believed time and time again that it was me that was causing the games to stop working by having inferior PCs, parts or software or by not having a degree in IT. I have spent the last 8 years or more trying to get Silent Hunter 3 to play at reasonable standard of stability. I have all the GWX mods, the V1.6 patch , the latest graphics drivers, the latest direct X and the bloody game still crashes. I custom built this PC I'm writing this post on to play it from the recommended specs on the box but it still crashes. BUT I STILL TRY TO PLAY IT because it is quite simply brilliant when it works!
I search through the forums trying to find a fix, I learn't how to edit .cfg files so the game is even more realistic. Everything I know about computing has come from this site and I have learnt it all to play one game. It still hasn't worked! I have no choice but to come to the conclusion that its the games that are at fault.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, UBISOFT can you make a game that actually works without any hard working third party modders having to repair it for you post release. You tease and you tease with your awesome graphics and immersive gameplay then CTD and its all over!

Microsoft can do it for pity's sake (Microsoft Flight Simulator Series) and they can't even build a stable OS since XP!
Does this sound like your experience with Silent Hunter? I'm willing to bet it is!

10-27-13, 04:35 PM	#1
scott_c2911 Engineer Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: West Midlands, Uk Posts: 203 Downloads: 71 Uploads: 0	Silent Hunter Series: Woeful, Brilliant or Both? This is going to be a long thread just to warn everyone. It started many years ago when I was a child with a Windows 95 PC and Silent Hunter 1. The game didn't work! I was extremely unhappy and I may have shed a few tears. This is the experience I was to have with all of the future releases of Silent Hunter but maybe without the tears and more profanities as I grew older. Silent Hunter 1 did eventually play on a Windows 98 PC that had a 64mb shared graphics capability and I must say I spent an unbelievable amount of time playing it. It was awesome! I was immediately hooked on the whole Submarine Simulator idea. Then Silent Hunter 2 came along with its revolutionary graphics and new Windows ME PC. Guess what? It didn't work either. I wasn't that bothered this time as going to war against my own countrymen (I'm from the UK) did go against the grain a little. While I was studying Marine Biology at university I spent my student loan on a Windows XP Laptop and bought Silent Hunter 3. I regretted that more. The money could have been better spent down the "boozer" but at least I had Silent Hunter 2 to fall back on. Silent Hunter 3 didn't work at all but Silent Hunter 2 did. The bugs made the game practically unplayable though! Now several years on I have bought Silent Hunter 4 and Silent Hunter 5 (last week!) and wish I hadn't have bothered! I have spent thousands of pounds on PCs, Laptops, Graphics Cards and RAM and the only one out of the FIVE games that works is Silent Hunter 3 on an old Windows XP PC with far too much RAM hanging out of the Motherbaord and a fairly good Graphics Card in the PCI slot. Why would I bother you may ask me? The small slices of the games I was able to sample between the Blue Screen of Death and the annoying Crash to Desktop errors was so brilliant that I believed time and time again that it was me that was causing the games to stop working by having inferior PCs, parts or software or by not having a degree in IT. I have spent the last 8 years or more trying to get Silent Hunter 3 to play at reasonable standard of stability. I have all the GWX mods, the V1.6 patch , the latest graphics drivers, the latest direct X and the bloody game still crashes. I custom built this PC I'm writing this post on to play it from the recommended specs on the box but it still crashes. BUT I STILL TRY TO PLAY IT because it is quite simply brilliant when it works! I search through the forums trying to find a fix, I learn't how to edit .cfg files so the game is even more realistic. Everything I know about computing has come from this site and I have learnt it all to play one game. It still hasn't worked! I have no choice but to come to the conclusion that its the games that are at fault. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, UBISOFT can you make a game that actually works without any hard working third party modders having to repair it for you post release. You tease and you tease with your awesome graphics and immersive gameplay then CTD and its all over! Microsoft can do it for pity's sake (Microsoft Flight Simulator Series) and they can't even build a stable OS since XP! Does this sound like your experience with Silent Hunter? I'm willing to bet it is! __________________ KLt S. Cooksey commanding U-2528 ... .. -. -.- / - .... . -- / .- .-.. .-..