FOTRS will not activate - Please help!

[lotharbucheim]

Hi everyone,

It has been many years since I played SH3-GWX and loved it. I have finally come back to Silent Hunter and am desperate to play SH4 with the FOTRS super-mod. The fact that so many people are prepared to put so much effort in to improve the games is amazing.

I am not great with PC’s...but have read, and re-read the instructions for how to load SH4 on Windows 10, and how to activate the FOTRS.

My SH4 was bought directly from the Ubisoft site.

FOTRS is activated and showing in JSGME but when I open the game (via the SH4 .exe icon) the game seems to open stock. There seems to be nothing to indicate that the FOTRS is activated.

I haven’t opened the game beyond the titles screen (except for changing the game resolution).

I have downloaded DirectX9C (as far as I can tell).
I have set SH4.exe to ‘run as an administrator’.
I have activated the LAA to SH4.exe
I have deleted the SH4 Folder as instructed

I am obviously missing something/being dumb....but I just cannot see it.

I would be very grateful if someone could advise me what I’m missing, as I am desperate to get on patrol !

Specs:

MSI B350 PC MATE USB 3.1 AM4 RYZEN Motherboard + AMD RYZEN 5 1 2600 19MB CACHE Up to 3.9GHz CPU + 8GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Antec VP500P 500W 80+ Efficient Continuous Power Silent Power 1 Supply
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 OC OVERCLOCKED Edition 6GB GDDR5 1280 1 Core VR Ready Graphics card
Samsung 960 EVO 250GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive 1 (SSD) MZ-V6E250BW / Max Read : 3200 MB/sec / Max Write : 1500
MB/sec
Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1TB HDD / 7200RPM / 64MB Cache 1 SATA 6.0Gb/s / 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

I am attaching some pics showing what I am seeing on-screen, in the hope that someone can help me out.

Many thanks in advance for any advice.