Aimlessly drifting at sea! Need help with technical issues ect

[Gunnarr]

I have not played the Silent Hunter games since I was a young teenager. I wanted to play them again, I have Silent Hunter III, and Silent Hunter IV Wolves of the Pacific. I remember from my childhood that Silent Hunter IV crashed a lot, very buggy. So we never played it much.

I didn't even know what mods were back then either.

So, here I am. Thinking to play again, I saw it on my CD rack and thought it sounded like a good idea. I have windows 7, and 1920x1080 resolution.

First, I do not know which game to play. 3 or 4. Personally I find the pacific theatre more interesting for me, (or maybe it was because my brother was obsessed with Germans it made me want to be different...) but I feel if it still is not a good game I can play Silent Hunter 3.

So here are my questions.

1. Which game should I play? 3 or 4? I would play it modded now that I know how well mods improve games. Is 3 still better overall?

2. When I tried installing Silent Hunter 3, it showed something to install checked "windows media 9 codecs" I do not know what this is. Should I leave this checked?

3. After installing, is there a way to play in my 1920x1080 resolution? I have a laptop which has a smaller resolution, but it overheats a lot... and it is not a very standard resolution on it either from what I remember, but might be wrong (least it was not a standard resolution on Railroad Tycoon 3!)

4. Eventually, I will need help picking mods to install for SH 3 or 4 , depending on which I play first.

Guess that is all the questions for now. Thank you for your time, and sorry if this is a bad place to post this, I didnt see a "General Silent Hunter Discussion" subforum

[bstanko6]

Just my opinion on which you should play, it's SH3! I love 3 because the mods are better, and vast. I love the Atlantic campaign. You are essentially the bad boy. The trouble maker... I mean your boss is Hitler!!! Need I say more! You are out to starve an island continent to make war!

[Gunnarr]

Originally Posted by bstanko6

Just my opinion on which you should play, it's SH3! I love 3 because the mods are better, and vast. I love the Atlantic campaign. You are essentially the bad boy. The trouble maker... I mean your boss is Hitler!!! Need I say more! You are out to starve an island continent to make war!

I like playing good guys though! I can pretend to be a bad guy as well , of course... sink those liberty ships!!! maybe I just find fighting the British boring... but it does not matter too much, I am mostly interested in which has the best gameplay (when including mods). So it is still silent hunter 3?

[bstanko6]

I always thought so. but just wait, a lot of guys will respond to this and give u a 4 is better speech.

[pedalboat]

Why not play both?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Gunnarr

1. Which game should I play? 3 or 4? I would play it modded now that I know how well mods improve games. Is 3 still better overall?

SH4 is more stable and has improvements that I think are cool. SH3 has had the benefit of many talented people creating many great mods. I use a supermod plus a laundry list of other mods longer than my arm. For SH4 I'm able to use fewer mods, but if more were available I would certainly use many of them as well. Most of the mods I like aren't really necessary, adding visual and audio extras that make it better for me.

2. When I tried installing Silent Hunter 3, it showed something to install checked "windows media 9 codecs" I do not know what this is. Should I leave this checked?

I do. It doesn't seem to harm anything, so I figure I might as well let it run.

3. After installing, is there a way to play in my 1920x1080 resolution? I have a laptop which has a smaller resolution, but it overheats a lot... and it is not a very standard resolution on it either from what I remember, but might be wrong (least it was not a standard resolution on Railroad Tycoon 3!)

There are widescreen mods available. I don't use any of them. Is there stretching? Probably, but I've never noticed it.

4. Eventually, I will need help picking mods to install for SH 3 or 4 , depending on which I play first.

You have only to ask. There are many (myself included) who love to spout of about this, that or the other favorite.

Guess that is all the questions for now. Thank you for your time, and sorry if this is a bad place to post this, I didnt see a "General Silent Hunter Discussion" subforum

This is the perfect place. When you're ready to play SH4 you can ask the same technical questions on that forum.

Originally Posted by bstanko6

Just my opinion on which you should play, it's SH3! I love 3 because the mods are better, and vast. I love the Atlantic campaign. You are essentially the bad boy. The trouble maker... I mean your boss is Hitler!!! Need I say more! You are out to starve an island continent to make war!

No, your boss is Dönitz. He was a U-boatman in the last war, not an infantryman, and knows how we think. We're not the bad guys, we're just a bunch of sailors doing what we're told. Is the fact that we have fun doing it our fault?

Originally Posted by Gunnarr

but it does not matter too much, I am mostly interested in which has the best gameplay (when including mods). So it is still silent hunter 3?

Actually they are very similar, being the same game at heart. As I said earlier, SH4 has improved routines and better graphics, whereas SH3 still is way ahead in the available mods department.

Originally Posted by bstanko6

I always thought so. but just wait, a lot of guys will respond to this and give u a 4 is better speech.

SH4 is better.

Originally Posted by pedalboat

Why not play both?

I do.

Sorry for quoting everything on the page, but there were things in every post that I wanted to address.

[UKönig]

Originally Posted by bstanko6

Just my opinion on which you should play, it's SH3! I love 3 because the mods are better, and vast. I love the Atlantic campaign. You are essentially the bad boy. The trouble maker... I mean your boss is Hitler!!! Need I say more! You are out to starve an island continent to make war!

You make a pretty good point!

I like to hit the exterior view, and play AC'DCs "Big guns" ...fitting tribute. Y'all should give it a try some time, if you're able.

[GoldenRivet]

"I remember from my childhood" he says in reference to SH3/4

Wow

I feel old

Of course SH3 was released 10 years ago. Sh4 not long after that. So yes guys... A game we enjoy very much today could be played by a 21 year old bar buddy who was just 11 years old when he first fired a torpedo in SH3

Dang

[d@rk51d3]

Originally Posted by Gunnarr

Hey everyone

I installed the game in a different place, (went with C drive, then Games )

I followed the instructions here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=160118

and downloaded this file from here:

http://www.gamecopyworld.com/games/p...hunter_3.shtml

rld-sh14.rar

but when I unzipped it in a blank folder, Norton detirmined the files to be unsafe and removed them. Are they viruses in that file? (maybe the download has been tampered with?)

I don't know what to do now

Been using them for years. Reinstalled again yesterday from GCW, and all good according to Avast.

[Gunnarr]

Hey guys!

I finally got it working!

I went into my norton settings and told it to individually restore those files, and to not try to remove them again.

I clicked to play, and there is no cd in, and it works!

So, problem solved!

Thank you to everyone that responded!



Now to install some mods and get so excited I do not sleep at my correct time... which is 6 AM...

oh and btw, I wanted to play Silent Hunter 3 before 4, since I don't want to feel a downgrade in graphics if I had went SH4 to SH3