Help?! my mods be broke! Gahhhhh!!!!

[Hunter.R.H]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

That is not a good place to install a Silent Hunter game to, and then apply mods. The "Program Files" is a protected Windows "system" folder. As such, it will not allow changes that do not come through an "authorized" interface. Both JSGME and sh3.exe were written prior to the dawn of the use of User Access Control (UAC) in Windows. All *.cfg and several other file extensions are "rolled-back" to their original state of install, while others like the *.dds file are left alone. This results in a mix of components in your SH3 folders.

The way to avoid that is to install Silent Hunter III in a different folder. If you have no other Steam games, a re-install is probably the easy way to proceed. Use JSGME and de-activate all of your mods. Copy or move your MODS folder for safekeeping, and then use Steam to uninstall Silent Hunter III. Steam has an article "Moving a Steam Installation and Games in their Knowledge Base that can help. If you have a usable 2nd hard drive or partition (a Restore partition is NOT usable), or a fast external drive, you might be able to use the Steam option of adding another Library folder, which is easier to deal with. If not, then you'll have to do the "Move" method, which takes longer, but is easy enough also. Steam can stay in the Program Files folders, but the game cannot. All methods of moving a Steam game though will eat up a chunk of your time. Once you have the game moved though, it should take and keep mods fine.

i could imagine that this is what is causing all my issues but i'm afraid my patience has run out so i intend to take a break from this whole modding shenanigans, i do however appreciate the help