Author Topic: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question (Read 428 times)

Estes · « **on:** May 19, 2005, 12:31:17 PM »

After all of you guys reviewed it, I had to buy it.

So, I got my copy this morning. However, it won't accept my damn CD key. I just keep getting an error. My computer well exceeds the reccomended requirements, and I do not have a DVD burner.

I only have one drive, which is a lite on CD-RW DVD rom drive.

Any ideas why it won't accept my CD key?

Estes · « **Reply #1 on:** May 19, 2005, 12:53:09 PM »

How ****in convenient is that.
I give UBI a call and they're phone systems are down for maitenece.

JB73 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 19, 2005, 01:05:03 PM »

for how cool that game looks in screen shots, it sure sounds like the most nightmare software on the planet from what this board has experienced....

at least thats how it sounds lol

Yeager · « **Reply #3 on:** May 19, 2005, 01:15:40 PM »

you do realize this software was written by poles.....

Schaden · « **Reply #4 on:** May 19, 2005, 01:43:02 PM »

It doesn't like the fact that you have a DVD writer/burner - it will only accept a DVD reader only setup - like anyone has jst that these days - I worked around it by copying the DVD onto a spare portable HD, then loading from there - no problems in installing and loading from then on.

I think there's another work around if you don't have a spare HD, check out their forums.

Sandman · « **Reply #5 on:** May 19, 2005, 01:43:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Estes
How ****in convenient is that.
I give UBI a call and they're phone systems are down for maitenece.

You could try contacting Star-Force.

Estes · « **Reply #6 on:** May 19, 2005, 01:55:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Schaden
It doesn't like the fact that you have a DVD writer/burner - it will only accept a DVD reader only setup - like anyone has jst that these days - I worked around it by copying the DVD onto a spare portable HD, then loading from there - no problems in installing and loading from then on.

I think there's another work around if you don't have a spare HD, check out their forums.

I have no DVD writer nor burner. Only a reader.

My problem is fixed though. Starforce gave me a new key code.

About a pain in the bellybutton though. And it's a hard bellybutton game.

So far, the only ship I have sank was one of the easy mode tutorial ones.

Sandman · « **Reply #7 on:** May 19, 2005, 01:59:28 PM »

FWIW, mine works fine on a DVD burner.

Schaden · « **Reply #8 on:** May 19, 2005, 02:27:18 PM »

Keep getting killed on mission 3 or 4 when I get too cocky......

SkyLab · « **Reply #9 on:** May 19, 2005, 04:41:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
you do realize this software was written by poles.....

racist..........move along.

weaselsan · « **Reply #10 on:** May 19, 2005, 04:51:06 PM »

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Originally posted by SkyLab
racist..........move along.

Polish is a race? I thought it was a Nationality?

Saintaw · « **Reply #11 on:** May 19, 2005, 05:51:42 PM »

smartarse.

Estes, contact them and they will give you another CD key.

Estes · « **Reply #12 on:** May 19, 2005, 07:20:18 PM »

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Originally posted by Saintaw
smartarse.

Estes, contact them and they will give you another CD key.

Already did that. The lady I talked to at starforce got me up and going in about 2 minutes.

Wonder why the cdkey that came with it didn't work though.

Saintaw · « **Reply #13 on:** May 20, 2005, 12:41:42 AM »

My guess would be the incompatibility with some CD-R. Glad it's working now

beet1e · « **Reply #14 on:** May 20, 2005, 02:49:58 AM »

A must-have movie in your DVD collection ought to be the outstanding "Das Boot". The prologue of this movie tells us that of 40,000 men who set off on U-Boat missions in WW2, 30,000 never returned. After playing SH3 for some weeks, it became clear why this was the case! One of the single missions in the game (I think it's Norvik) puts you in a sub at periscope depth in a Norwegian fjord, with a destroyer only ½km away!!! Once detected by the destroyer, you can't dive, and escape seems impossible. I have never been able to get out of this one, never mind sink the target ship - the Warspite.

SH3 has always worked fine with my TDK DVD burner.