Hello,
I have the Steam game of SH4 with the U-boat missions installed, to be honest this is the easiest way to get the game right now. However, it has some flaws. Follow the instructions below to ensure that your SH4 will be ready to start.
TUTORIAL PART
1. Make sure you have Silent Hunter: Wolves of Pacific and Silent Hunter: Wolves of Pacific U-boat missions bought on Steam. Links:
SH4:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...f_the_Pacific/
SH4 U-boat missions:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...Boat_Missions/
2. Now, this is the part in which you have to get a pendrive.
HAVING A PENDRIVE IS CRUCIAL FOR THIS TUTORIAL.
3. Insert the pendrive into your computer, check if it connected with it via File Explorer.
4. Open Steam, then do following: click on "Steam", then "Settings". A new Settings windows will pop up. Select "Downloads" and click on "Steam Library Folders".
5. A new window will pop up, look for an + icon right next to the box showing your C drive, then click on it.
6. A new window will pop up. It will ask for you where to add a new Steam Library Folder. From the drop-down menu, select your pendrive (you will know which one is it since it has other drive letter) and then click "Add" (it should automatically select it for you).
7. Now you have created a Steam Library Folder on your pendrive. Close Steam fully (it means to close it via the tray bar thing on your taskbar)
8. Open File Explorer, click on your pendrive, then find the SteamLibrary folder, right click, cut, then go back to your C drive, and paste it in.
9. Navigate to Steam file directory (in my case: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam).
10. Go to steamapps folder, and look for libraryfolders.vdf file. Open it with notepad. Look for the following code line: "path" "D:\\SteamLibrary" (the D letter can be various, depends on the pendrive, refer to picture 1)
11. Replace the D with C. DO NOT REMOVE THE " MARKS.
12. Save the file, then go back to File Explorer, from there navigate back to the Steam files directory.
13. Go to config folder, and look again for libraryfolders.vdf file. Open it with notepad. Do the same thing like in step 10. REMEBER TO SAVE THE FILE!
14. Now you are free to close all of your windows.
15. Open Steam, wait for it to start. Once it starts navigate to "Steam" > "Settings", select "Downloads", click on "Steam Library Folders". On the new window, click on the + icon. From there Steam should automatically detect the new library folder and select it for you. If not, select it from drop-down menu. Click on "Add".
16. Now you can install SH4 and SH4 U-boat missions. When starting the installations, make sure you select "SteamLibrary" folder from the drop-down menu on the bottom of the window.
17. Once both are installed, navigate to the SH4 installation folder (in this case it will be: C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common)
18. Go to the SH4 game folder. Once in the folder, look for SH4.exe. Once you found it, right click on it and select "Properties"
19. A new window will pop up. From there select "Compatibility". Then, click on "Change DPI settings". New window will pop up. From there, mark "Override high DPI scaling behavior". Click "Ok".
20. Once back on the compatibility tab, mark "Run the Program as Administrator" option. This will be helpful when trying to run SH4 with mods.
And voila, you are done! If I said something wrong, feel free to inform me in the replies
. Anyway see you on the hunt!
Pictures to refer to:
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https://gyazo.com/efeddbf47f7324d3afc58fa7aa3d5fe3