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first post of this thread has an abbreviated version of the install instructions just below the edge of your screen boundary, so you could scroll down a couple of paragraphs there, or use the Support folder in the mod's folder, and read some of the pdf files in there. GWX does a nice installer for a person, and we have not developed the FotRSU mod far enough to do the same here just yet. Maybe at some point in the future we will, but for now, no. What the installer does is unzip the mod, and then runs JSGME for you, activating the base mod. It cannot, however, uninstall things for you at a later time, so you have to be dedicated to GWX with that particular install of SH3. For Fall of the Rising Sun Ultimate Edition (FotRSU), you can either run a current copy of JSGME that you have in the intended FotRSU folder to create a "MODS" folder, or make one yourself in Windows Explorer. The big thing is 'folder structure'.
You do NOT want to have your SH4 in a Program Files folder. If you do, Windows will interfere with everything you do, and rollback all cfg and select other files to their previous state, which will render at least the mod useless, and will sometimes ruin the game install itself. You want the game installed in a folder you create yourself outside of Windows User Accesss Control (UAC). A lot of folks, when they install the game will change the path of the install with the install dialog, such as the windows pop-up with a "Do you want to install the game in this path?" and it will have "C:\Program Files (x86) \Ubisoft \Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific" and folks will change that to "C:\Games \Ubisoft \Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific" or some-such. Maybe you have Steam, and it defaults to "C:\Program Files \Steam \SteamApps \common \Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific", and a person could eliminate that "Program Files\" portion of the path (unless Steam is already installed, and then you would need a 2nd hard drive to be able to make a 2nd Steam Library folder on that. Refer to "
Moving a Steam Installation and Games" for more).
Once you have a "clean", "fresh" install of the game, you then either run JSGME, or create a MODS folder yourself, as mentioned above. Download the FotRSU mod, linked to on the first page of the thread above, and also download the "Patch" listed just below the full-mod link. The "Patch" will be eliminated with the next release. You can download the 7-zip files directly to the MODS folder if desired. You will need to download and use
7-zip to extract both the mod and the patch. Once those are extracted, then use JSGME to "activate" the mod and patch file.
Now, the thing of it with JSGME and the way it functions, all depends upon where JSGME is installed. There is a copy of JSGME v2.6 in the FotRSU mod, while if you are using the one that came in GWX, it is v2.2. Version 2.6 will "refresh" a mod list with any change, while with v2.2, you have to hit the F5 key to initiate a refresh. In either case, if JSGME is not in the SH4 folder with the MODS folder for FotRSU, you will have to navigate to the proper location. You are better off using JSGME v2.6 and have it in the game folder where FotRSU mod is in the MODS folder. That way, when you open that particular JSGME, it makes its own ini file in that and the MODS folder, and all it has to track then is the mods for that particular install.
After the mod is activated, you should have an LAA applet, and a MultiSH4 applet in the game folder. The use of LAA on the game with FotRSU is almost a requirement, since the mod will use as much RAM as it can get (Windows limits it to less that 2 gig otherwise - 1.6 gig max realistically - no matter how much RAM you have on your computer). Using MultiSH4 will allow you to change the default Save folder name for the game, which can make further modding easier, and helps keep this particular SH4 install dedicated to FotRSU. MultiSH4 oftentimes has to be used prior to LAA...
Any other questions, don't hesitate to ask. You are not retarded. There is a lot to wrap your head around just to get the game going properly on a 'modern' computer, and then you are trying to add a mod on top of that, which can make things really strange. Just look in the mod's Support folder, and you'll see a bunch of pdf files that might help a bit. Then again, if you're like me, when I see a bunch of text to read anymore, I begin to nod off... just don't do that with this post...
