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Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: 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?
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Estes 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.
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: JB73 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
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Yeager on May 19, 2005, 01:15:40 PM
you do realize this software was written by poles.....:aok
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Schaden 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.
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Sandman 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 (http://www.star-force.com/).
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Estes 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.
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Sandman on May 19, 2005, 01:59:28 PM
FWIW, mine works fine on a DVD burner.
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Schaden on May 19, 2005, 02:27:18 PM
Keep getting killed on mission 3 or 4 when I get too cocky......
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: SkyLab 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.....:aok


racist..........move along.
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: weaselsan 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?
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Saintaw on May 19, 2005, 05:51:42 PM
smartarse.

Estes, contact them and they will give you another CD key.
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Estes 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.
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Saintaw on May 20, 2005, 12:41:42 AM
My guess would be the incompatibility  with some CD-R. Glad it's working now :)
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: beet1e 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 ˝km 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.
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: -tronski- on May 20, 2005, 03:58:21 AM
Worked fine with my Pioneer dvd burner, but then I've had problems with other starforce protected games...(Finally got around Superpower 2 with a no-cd download)

When I bought WW2OL when it originally was released, the cd-key wouldn't authenticate because the publishing company handn't passed on the codes to WW2OL :rolleyes:  

 Tronsky
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: mora on May 20, 2005, 04:28:06 AM
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Originally posted by Yeager
you do realize this software was written by poles.....:aok

What software was written by poles?
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Estes on May 20, 2005, 09:18:06 AM
Alright, Im going to hijack my thread for a second.

This is seemingly the most difficult thing for me so far. Whenever I see a ship, and I approach, I'm always facing the wrong way. And I have to turn around and end up getting spotted.

Is there an easier way to approach ships and be facing toward them?
Title: Silent Hunter 3 techincal question
Post by: Saintaw on May 20, 2005, 09:22:57 AM
What do you mean by "facing the wrong way"? You mean you're travelling backwards?