A question about the Steam version and the Generic Patcher

[AADrcw]

I do apologize if this question has been answered somewhere in the forum but my countless searches yielded no results.

I have the Steam version of SH5. I have taken a very long break (playing DCS World) and Decided to come back and experience some of the new mods and what not for SH5.

I went to install the Wolves of Steel mega mod and I am having a issue with the Generic Patcher. I followed the steps to get a non Steam exe listed elsewhere on this forum and got the exe but when I run the patcher I am getting a error when it gets to patching the exe saying that it can't access the file because it is in use by another process. I have tried everything and no matter what I do it always says that. It will let me continue with patching everything else but I have no way to tell if the exe was actually patched.

Am I stuck on not being able to use any of the mods that require the generic patcher or am I doing something wrong? Is that error normal?

If there is no longer a work around can I buy the digital download version from Amazon? Would that be the same as the disc version?

Thanks for any help!

[vdr1981]

Try this...http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=3007

[AADrcw]

I just went and tried it on a fresh restart and it still gives me the error. I looked through my processes and I didn't see anything Uplay related. Is there a process that Uplay uses that isn't obvious?

EDIT to add I am also getting a error that the exe is different then expected. I used only the files from the tutorial on how to do this so I don't know what I am doing wrong

[Sjizzle]

Originally Posted by AADrcw

I just went and tried it on a fresh restart and it still gives me the error. I looked through my processes and I didn't see anything Uplay related. Is there a process that Uplay uses that isn't obvious?

EDIT to add I am also getting a error that the exe is different then expected. I used only the files from the tutorial on how to do this so I don't know what I am doing wrong

did u read here ?

[AADrcw]

Originally Posted by Sjizzle

did u read here ?

Yes I did, I followed that guide step by step exactly. I even reinstalled everything 3 times retrying it just to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

Every time I try it no matter what I do I get the in use by another process message. I even tried to copy the exe to my second HD and pointed the config of generic patcher to it there and it still says its in use.

I also tried TheDarkWraiths method and I couldn't get the patch to install to get the exe, It just kept saying wrong version.

[AADrcw]

here are 2 screen caps of the errors I am getting.