Silent Hunter III (DVD-ROM)

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I purchased Silent Hunter III on DVD several years ago. Lately, I downloaded the GWX-3 extension that are free on the web. All this will run* on Vista 32 bit.

1. Review the GWX-3 pdf manual; SHIII must be removed and specific history files (see step 3).

2. Download the Patches for SHIII; SH_3_DVD_1.1_us, SH_3_DVD_1.2_us, SH_3_1.3_us, and SH_3_DVD_1.4a_us into a directory C:\SHIII Patches.

3. Download GWX3.Zip into a folder C:\GWX3 and expand the files.

4. Anything run on Vista MUST be run as administrator (This is important! Right click the mouse button with the pointer on the icon, then select run as admin).

5. Install SHIII (run as admin) into a directory C:\SilentHunterIII

6. Install all 4 patches sequentially (run as admin).

7. Go to C:\windows\system32\drivers and delete the installed StarForce driver from the SHIII installation DVD because this driver is for XP.

I believe the driver name is stdrv01.sys. If you boot Vista with this driver installed, then you will get a message that states the driver open failed. The GWX3 manual has a link to download the StarForce drivers for Vista 32 and 63 bit. I have only installed the 32 bit version.

8. Expand the StarForce driver sfdrvup.zip into a directory. I used C:\StarForce.

9. Copy the new StarForce drivers into the C:\Windows\system32\drivers directory, The file names are: sfdvr01.sys (56 KB), and sfdrv01a.sys (62 KB).

10. Run SHIII (as admin) and it should come up in a full screen mode. Once this is successful, now we can install GWX3 so exit SHIII.

11. Run GWX3.exe (as admin); this takes awhile to install but is well worth the results. GWX3 will place a new SHIII, JSGME, and GWX 3.0 manual icon on your desktop (be sure to delete the original SHIII icon).

12. Double click on the JSGME icon and it will bring up an install list of 18 0ptions to activate in SHIII ( they can be deactivated as well). I activated GWX -Main movie -Das Boot, GWX -16km Atmosphere, and GWX - Enhanced Damage Effects. Then CLOSE the application.

Now, you can run SHIII with GWX 3.0 (run as admin)....

Regards,
Don_

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