Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific takes players to the depths of the Pacific Ocean as the skipper of an American submarine. Ubisoft has released a new v1.4 patch adding new graphics features, several gameplay changes, and the usual bugs and crash fixes...

CHANGES:

* Rendering distance increased to 20km, with appropriate improvement for visual sensors capabilities
* Dynamic loading of game units has been implemented, considerably improving loading times
* Improvements to Water rendering
* Improvements for enemy ships detection of steam torpedoes
* Damage taken by hulls submarine is shown in the damage interface
* Entries in Captain�s Log are now limited for better performance
* Screenshot names now contain the date they were taken on
* End patrol ports are now displayed on the map
* Objectives on the navigation now change color when completed

BUG FIXES:

* Destroyer/Submarine collisions always leading to the destroyer being sunk
* Fix the periscope animation problem
* Save & Load issues with the submarine crew
* Magnetic/Contact Detonator switch now working properly
* Improper display of the TBT interface for widescreen resolutions
* Loss of torpedo aiming track when crossing the International Date Line
* Deck gun Metric/Imperial system issues
* Repeating objectives bug
* Correct date when loading a save from career

This version requires:

� WinXP/VISTA Only
� DirectX 9.0c
� 2 GHz Pentium 4, AMD Athlon, or equivalent
� 1024 MB RAM
� 128MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with Pixel Shader 2.0 capability
� DirectX 9.0C compatible sound device
� DVD-ROM 4x or faster
� 6.0 GB hard drive space
� Windows-compatible mouse required
� Internet connection for play on Ubi.com (minimum 56k modem or broadband)

2. INSTALLATION

Please make sure that you are installing the right patch for your game version.
This patch can be applied on Silent Hunter 4 Original Version, on Patch 1.1 Patch 1.2, or on Patch 1.3

This patch will upgrade your version of Silent Hunter 4 to Silent Hunter 4 Patch 1.4.

1. Before installing Silent Hunter 4 - Wolves of the Pacific Patch 1.4 please close all other programs.

2. Run patch installation file.

3. Follow the instructions.

Upon installation you can run the game either from windows start menu ('Start' -> 'All Programs' -> 'Ubisoft' -> 'Silent Hunter 4 - Wolves of the Pacific' -> or use 'sh4.exe' file from the game installation directory (By default, the game will be installed into "C:Program FilesUbisoftSilent Hunter 4").

Note 1: The save games and replays that were made with the original version of Silent Hunter 4 or with Silent Hunter 4 patch 1.1 or 1.2 will be incompatible with the new patch version.

Note 2: In Base autosaving are compatible between original version, Patch 1.1, Patch 1.2 and Patch 1.3.

Note 3: Multiplayer (LAN or Online) connection between the original version of Silent Hunter 4, any of the previous patches and the new patch version is not possible.

3. DOWNLOAD LOCATIONS (219 Mbs):

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Yay!

Cool. Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the heads-up! I would have missed it for a few days or so..anxious to see how it plays now. The repeating objective thing was killing it for me.

Yeah, the repeating objectives thing sucked. So did that international dateline bug. Both of those had work-arounds from Ducimus available at Subsim, but I'm glad they are finally fixed properly.

The faster loading seems to be quite noticable, so good work on that Devs!

As far as the water rendering, I gave it a look but I'll probably reload the ROW mod as soon as I find out it's compatible with 1.4.

I've downloaded it..but when trying to run the patch I get "Setup.exe has stopped working"...

I'm using Vista...anyone know if the patch can be run in Vista?

EDIT: Nevermind...corrupt download...(yay!)..

Ramming doesn't seem fixed according to reports.

Glad it's working Beach.

@Tater: You mean we still have titanium periscopes?

Patched fine on WinXP-SP2 over 1.2.

I gave up on Vista until theres a solid SP1 and I hear good things from the FalconAF folks.
Seemed like you need special patches, tweeks, and still bugs with several flight sims and Vista.
Minus of course, MS-FSX.

I'm looking at SH4 Gold at Amazon that includes the addon -- will I need to patch?

I really don't have an answer for that, but since the last patch released was awhile back, I believe before the expansion pack was released, I would think off hand NO.

nope. the gold contains the uboat addon. there have been no patches after that.

I'm going for it then. My IL2:1946 has SecureRom and I've had no problems from it.

Wow, very unusual to see another "Neal" on the forums

You right there, Neal!

I looked my first and last name up on a people search one time and found over 1100 instances....
It was unusual for me to meet another Neal outside family (3 of us named after 1) until the 70's,
maybe late 60's.
What kicks me is how many people see me spell my name and still spell back Neil. Oh well!

One of my best friends from the Army is named Neal.

Guess the name didn't seem to strange to me.

It's not a strange name, IMO. There's just a LOT more Bobs and Daves in my generation, from the 50's.

Well I got it and first thing had to synchronize and still on some screens the mouse is very drunk,
the game very slow to notice button of key input, they have to stay down maybe 1/2 second. I have
an older PC, 2600 Sempron with right now 1G RAM and Fx5200 video with graphics set LOW and no music.
I have another G of RAM that was out over power problems when I also ran an ATI X800 off 350W PS.
The X800 seems to have gone bye-bye so the RAM or power situation may be good, perhaps better play.

I have no problems with mouse when on the Nav or Attack maps (btw, how to zoom the Attack map?) and
not terrible out on the bridge. Go to targeting and drunk mouse again, takes forever to fire shots
and get the periscope down and moving the reticle is always big jumps.

I'll be spending lots of time in the essentials thread just looking for what you actually press to
do things not explained in the on-disk manual at all, and the training missions just don't cover.
When you're being shot at isn't the time to figure out how to raise, lower, and traverse a gun!

So far, I liked Aces of the Deep a lot better! I've read posts at subsim where others were asking
why things from earlier versions (I and III) were dropped for example and noted bugs in 2007 that
I dunno if they were fixed or not so I quit reading! I guess I'll have to pay attention to dates
on posts here as well and look for later changes.

Hello - I'm new to sub sims (IL2 fan) but I found used SHIV Gold Edition at GameStop for $20 so I purchased it based a lot on the many cool screen shots I have seen on this forum. I'm slowly reading the Essentilas thread but off tha bat will the Gold Edition run fine as is?

Thanks

Reno

Thanks Wireman! I have to tell you I'm still getting the hang of this sim BUT the graphics are pretty amazing! I'm SO impressed by the water, waves and sunlight shimmer on the boats under the water - that is cool.

So what is TMO and RFB?

Also my first Instant Action was a hoot! I was in the middle of three IJN destroyers!!!!! LOL - what a crappy skipper I am!