Still patrolling with SH3 + GWX, good fun. Never had much interest in SH4 (which i have) or 5.

I think I've played them all over the years and SH IV would be my favourite mainly because I got fed up of German boats. Every subsim seems to be German boats. As a Brit I want to play British subs.

What I need is a mod giving me T and S-Class subs and a campaign in which to use them. I'll dream on.

Do not make it political please

I believe I'm making it patriotic. I have no interest in turning anything political. If the mods believe I am then they can delete my post/reprimand me and I will abide by that.

Blitzkrieg: The install shield run time does not install on the install wizard. So the game and patch will not install on my Win 7 machine from the original Disk.

Agreed.

I've never cared for U-Boat sims, always prefer to skipper American boats in the Pacific. Therefore SH4 is my favorite.

Chucky is right and I agree. I would love to have a British sub sim especially a cold war era one. BLiTZKRiEG, I believe you are a new member so I think its just that you don't know everyone here yet. Chucky is being patriotic and practical.(Two things I admire and try to be myself btw ) Most everything is German when it comes to these types of games and many of us who have simmed a long time desire to see something new or rarely used in sims. We get fatigued with the overly used themes.

I would still be playing SH3 if I could get my copy to work because I want to play Grey Wolves and I enjoyed SH3 back in the day. I spent hours upon hours following Subsim "how to" threads to a T to try and get it running on Windows 7. One particular sticky's instructions included a link to a file that I supposedly needed and though I checked it, it ended up have a virus which majorly messed with my pc and took several weeks to get recuperated from. That left a bad taste in my mouth plus my old copy has the starforce drm stuff which can be a pain so after that experience I just don't want to try anymore. Perhaps I can try again with a better tutorial but I just don't have the heart to try. Eventually I'll probably just purchase the newer digital copy of SH3 on Subsim so that I can avoid the problems altogether. I really enjoy SH4 as well. I think SH3&4 are the best. I just recently tried reinstalling SH5 with mods and finally got to where that's playable. It really is silly how broken that piece of software is out of the box. I do love being able to walk around the sub compartments and having the newer graphics such as the volumetric clouds but it still seems kind of quirky even with mods.

Sub sim has a newer digital copy of SH 3 ? If so, I'll Buy. as long as it works.

I have SH3 from Steam and it works fine on my machines running both Windows 7 and 10. If using 10 you will need to run the program in compatibility mode for Windows 7. Both SH3 and 4 are offered from Steam at $9.99 each.

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I enjoyed SH III until SH IV came out. Loved SH IV partly because it brought back fond memories of hours spent playing Microprose's Silent Service (C64) back in the '80s lol. Agree with Chucky, would love to see some Royal Navy subs done.

Thanks, Guys.

I think the Subsim copy of SH3 for sale was a later version published that does not have the crummy Starforce DRM and that includes that last official patch from Ubisoft. Apparently its easier and less problematic to get up and running on Windows 7. The Steam version is okay too like others have said for newer operation systems. If you own these it should be a lot easier to install Grey Wolves Expansion and have SH3 up and running on a new system.

Grey Wolves expansion ? I bought and installed the SH III game from steam I agree its a later version or a later patch, but does seem to be running well. One question through should I also install the 1.4b patch ?

Always!

In your case (Steam) the 1.4b patch is installed already.

Look here for details: [TEC] PATCHES FOR SiLENT HUNTER III [SH3] and their appropriate installation

Can you provide a screenshot?

Have you really followed the installation-instructions TO THE LETTER?

See: http://www.donitzeliteflotilla.com/forum/index.php?topic=54.0

That is the most impressive, comprehensive and frightening installation guide I've ever seen.

I don't know whether to commend you or call the police

LOL

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That was never in high numbers, so not really historically accurate - and really something that submarines (anglo-american) and U-Boote (GER) should avoid at any cost. No wonder why... Sure I remember playing GATO/TENCH-classes and sinking Kaibokans, but that fun was nothing compared to what we play nowadays...



This sounds as if you have never undergone a lengthy DC-attack and never actually tried the fun to "dance with the escorts", did you?
Then you would appreciate the way lower underwater sensor-profile of the Germans. As USAs (which are much rather fleet boats than actual subs) you would be toast right next Hedgehog-attack.



GFX? Really? I mean: R-E-A-L-L-Y?

Crew management: SH3 has one thing that SH4 has unfortunately never seen: S3C - The Silent Hunter III Commander, where you can configure crew-management and far more. Really recommendable!

Cheers!