News: SHMF has been alive for almost 6 years thanks to a few dedicated members. Serial key and crack. However, most visitors were ungrateful and did not appreciate the reliable hosting of mods for our SH games. Hence, the domain: silenthuntermods.com has been abandonned, and the forum itself has been saved on another subdomain in order to save some valuable posts. However, the mods. Well, there ain't room for them on the server, so the download links don't work anymore for most of them, unless the mods will be put up elsewhere by the modders themselves. Personally, my own mods will be stored at mediafire, asap. Regards, Carotio.

Completely remove SH3, and Starforce: (execute the application in rar archive sfcdrvrem.rar) Go to the buttom of the page and you find the download to remove Starforce. Search for Silent Hunter 3 v1.4b [ENGLISH] No-DVD/Fixed EXE on ************* and download it. Its a zip-file (rld-sh14.rar) containing the following files: SH3.EXE, MISSIONENGINE.DLL, SIMDATA.DLL, UTILS.DLL & STATEMACHINE.DLL 3. Install SH3 and remove the disc from the drive after installation, make sure the game does NOT run after installation. Patch to 1.4b (execute application silent_hunter_3_dvd_1.4b_emea) and make sure the game doesn't start after patching. Extract the contents of the zip-file into SH3's install directory and let it overwrite the files it needs to overwrite. At this point you should be able to play the game.

The Steam version does not have Starforce. Ubi had to remove Starforce from games after a $5 million class action lawsuit from a gamer who had damaged hardware due to it, from a SHII disk.

There were even bans at the Ubi forums due to the badmouthing of Ubi and the makers of SF. The irony, Ubi details how to bypass the DRM in their forums yet they implement it for other games. That said, have you tried upgrading DX9? I run the Steam version on Vista 64 at 1680x1050 (there is a.dll you have to download and install for widescreen resolutions) and on Win 7 at a resolution I can't remember right off. I can't remember if I set it to widescreen or not. Go over to SubSim.com and there is are thread about this very thing.

How I got Silent Hunter III to run on windows 10 After racking my brain out trying to get Silent Hunter to run on Windows 10 I solved it. Probably will work for windows 8 also. What I did was go to the control panel and select my Graphics card icon (Nvidia in my case) open it up and select 3G settings.