I hope this is the correct place to post this thread.
Hi all, thank you for this forum and the opportunity to learn from very experienced and dedicated UB Sim enthusiasts.
I have a problem, and I feel very lame and noobish that I have been unsuccessful in installing SH3...
I thought I closely followed the necessary steps provided on this forum to get SH3 to run on Windows 10 and tried several times with no success.
This message keeps popping up:
https://i.gyazo.com/12bab328a1e95943562fef0b3ec4ae97.pngNote: I didn't take notes during the install attempts; I will attempt the installation again and make detailed notes. I will say that when trying to find out how to install SH3 for Win 10 or even in compatibility mode for XP or Win 7, I was googling several sources and may have used a file from a different source.
1st problem: I cannot register the game. The link provided during installation no longer works. Is this a problem? If it is a problem, how do I resolve it?
Because I knew Subsim supports all things Sub-related for gaming, and I was frequent on that forum many years ago, after reading their review of SH3, at the bottom was a link to buy the SH3 DVD game from a vendor on Amazon. I am in the USA. I did purchase it on Amazon, it was shipped, I think, from Arizona. I thought I received a USA DVD SH3 game. After several attempts to install Patch 1.4b DVD US, and failing, I took a closer look at the SH3 file contents and noticed notes for EMEA, so I used the Patch 1.4b DVD EMEA and said the patch was successfully upgraded and showed that on the SF3 app.
The Starforce removal tool at first didn't work. I tried 2 versions, and I think finally both said "no file or driver found." (I'm not sure, I can't remember .
I would appreciate a DEF member fluent in English and with good experience solving difficult SH3 on Windows PC intall/setup issues to contact me first via email ( I think you can email via this board), and we could arrange either a TS or Skype session. I currently do not have Discord setup.
A donation to DEF is appropriate if we can get this solved :)
Background:
I am not a young guy; I first played 688 attack sub back in the DOS days, and SH2 during its heyday, however, life got too busy for gaming except for the occasional FPS shooter.
I am much older now, and wanted to try a bit of immersion in a better sub sim than SH2, and I read that SH3 is the way to go, so here I am. Note, I was able to get SH2 to run fine on my win 10 pc using compatibility mode. However, since I tried installing SH3 now SH2 won't work. SH2 is currently uninstalled.
All help is appreciated, comments welcomed, and since I already said it's my lame failure to not arrive on DEF with a working copy of SH3, keep the arrows and poison darts lol...
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