[REL] Silent Hunter 4 Corruption Management System (SH4CMS)

[Red Devil]

you may be right. I am therefore putting myself up for Republican candidate for Subsim!!!

[Admiral Halsey]

Wait does this fix the save game corruption problems? Because if so finally I can play Op Monsun again!

[Rockin Robbins]

Admiral, what this does is, after or even before you uninstall all your mods, it will use a repository of original stock game files in a directory called \SH4Pristine to make your game installation perfectly mirror that directory. It will remove any extra files you have and ensure that each file is identical to the original stock file immediately after installation.

Then you can install your mods and be sure you are playing a perfect file installation. In fact, if you have reinstalled mods exactly as you had them before, you can just load up your last save and resume playing as if nothing had ever happened.

As far as the save game files in your \Documents\SH4 directory, SH4CMS doesn't touch that. You are still dependent on your system of backup saves to fix random game save file problems, same as you are for Microsoft Excel. All programs in Windows occasionally save a corrupt file. Whether the problem lies in Windows Explorer, buried in the operating system itself, in Silent Hunter 4, whatever, it's all executable code and not legally modifiable for anyone but the owner of that machine.

Under Windows 10, Microsoft can sample your code, decide it's been altered and delete it from your machine without your consent (actually you've already given them your consent legally although you know nothing about it) and without notifying you before or after their action.

I think you'll find that if your game is completely free from corruption, mod soup, or anything that alters original game files that SH4 will run much better. To that end JSGME is a fault detector, but it can't actually fix the problem once it identifies it. SH4CMS is a guaranteed fix, at the expense of 5.5 GB of hard drive space.

[JoeSnow]

Very impressive program!

[Alstack]

This is an excellent tool for SH4. Makes repairing your overzealous modding a breeze!

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Alstack

This is an excellent tool for SH4. Makes repairing your overzealous modding a breeze!

"Overzealous modding!" That's a perfect description for what we do in the FOTRSU modding team and exactly what caused me to write SH4CMS.

[gutted]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

All programs in Windows occasionally save a corrupt file.

I know you hate MS and windows, but thats stretching it. The problem with Silent Hunter's corrupt saves lies squarely with Silent Hunter.

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Under Windows 10, Microsoft can sample your code, decide it's been altered and delete it from your machine without your consent

Wrong.


If by chance Windows Defender quarantines a file it thinks is a trojan/keygen/or crack, it is not deleted. You can easily undo it and then tell it to ignore the file in the future.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by gutted

I know you hate MS and windows, but thats stretching it. The problem with Silent Hunter's corrupt saves lies squarely with Silent Hunter.



Wrong.


If by chance Windows Defender quarantines a file it thinks is a trojan/keygen/or crack, it is not deleted. You can easily undo it and then tell it to ignore the file in the future.

Not wrong. Your EULA gives Microsoft full rights to every file on your machine to do with what they want, including deletion, collection for "evidence" and modification. Running the software is your consent to that agreement. Since the files are compacted and encrypted before they are sent to Microsoft you have no way of telling what information they collect or what they do with it.

Your only option is to blacklist all Microsoft telemetry servers, and there are dozens of them, changing periodically like criminals do, to different "safe houses." In addition, Windows ignores your wishes and bypasses the HOSTS file when sending the packets of info to their home servers.

Windows 10 would have been identified as a Trojan and eliminated by MSE two years ago. Now your operating system IS a Trojan. Even if Microsoft were totally on the level, criminals, by hooking Microsoft's spyware system can operate totally undetected and undetectable on your machine. This is precisely what cost Sony billions of dollars in their infamous Rootkit Scandal. It's wrong. It's Microsoft. What was once a crime is now virtue.

[JoeSnow]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Not wrong. Your EULA gives Microsoft full rights to every file on your machine to do with what they want, including deletion, collection for "evidence" and modification. Running the software is your consent to that agreement. Since the files are compacted and encrypted before they are sent to Microsoft you have no way of telling what information they collect or what they do with it.

Your only option is to blacklist all Microsoft telemetry servers, and there are dozens of them, changing periodically like criminals do, to different "safe houses." In addition, Windows ignores your wishes and bypasses the HOSTS file when sending the packets of info to their home servers.

Windows 10 would have been identified as a Trojan and eliminated by MSE two years ago. Now your operating system IS a Trojan. Even if Microsoft were totally on the level, criminals, by hooking Microsoft's spyware system can operate totally undetected and undetectable on your machine. This is precisely what cost Sony billions of dollars in their infamous Rootkit Scandal. It's wrong. It's Microsoft. What was once a crime is now virtue.

Having been a computer repair guy for--well--25+ years, I approve this message.

[propbeanie]

bump... can't let this one fall off the front page!

[Rockin Robbins]

I've been rebuilding my Ubuntu system for easier backup and am just about ready for the next step in SH4CMS.

There was a bit of a scare a week ago as Microsoft announced that it would be eliminating the cmd window from Windows altogether. But IT specialists all over the country, who realize that many operations (like SH4CMS!) just can't be done in the GUI, freaked out on Microsoft. They folded. For now.

I'm convinced that Microsoft Windows is very consciously and willingly committing suicide. I still can't figure out why, but that doesn't matter. I wonder how many of us will still be running Windows in 10 years.

[propbeanie]

Probably 90+% of IT guys with network have mixed systems, and ~have~ to have CMD for configuration... I don't understand eliminating it anyway, unless they feel they can no longer "secure" it from hacks... They need to turn off that "connection sharing" kind of stuff first.

[Rockin Robbins]

Figured this thread needed to rise to the top again, as I've received some PMs on installing SH4CMS. Enjoy and please ask your questions in this thread to keep it near the top. Sure wish the moderators would sticky this thread. Would help clear my inbox!

[Rockin Robbins]

An interesting question raised in another thread. Anybody think SH4CMS is stolen material, plagiarized from others' work? Yes, it's a strange question but I was accused of that.

Anybody who believes that their work is contained in SH4CMS without permission or proper attribution, please post in this thread or (horrors!!! My inbox has to be cleaned out daily now to avoid being full) PM me so we can work out permissions and give you proper credit.

I have just reviewed my supporting text and installation instructions and I believe that all work of others is properly credited. If that is not the case let's fix it. I love to credit people whose work I use because those people are important.

[Rockin Robbins]

I am going through SH4CMS to see what can be improved. Found one error: the default menu for SH4 is not \Wolves of the Pacific, but \Silent Hunter 4 Wolves of the Pacific. Changes are being made.

Interestingly, the batch language is interpreted differently under WINE 2.1 than it is under Windows 7 Pro 64. I'm going to be asking some questions over at the WineHQ website about that. I use some pretty advanced syntax with SH4CMS and it trips up WINE under Linux. Might be a cue for the guys over at WineHQ to sharpen their game up a bit.