How do you install PA without deleting existing SHII?

Ruzbasan · Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 3

I currently have SH2 installed and fully modded. I want to have a seperate installation of PA without deleting or overwriting SH2 so I can play both games.

I have read on the forum that you can have a seperate installation of PA without having to uninstall or overwrite SH2. But no instructions are given how to do this.

When I try to do this I run into a major problem. Since SH2 is already installed, when I insert the SH2 disk to begin a second install of SH2 for PA, a menu pops up only allowing me to uninstall SH2. It does not give me an option to install SH2.

Can anyone give me instructions on how to install PA without deleting my SH2 install so I can play both games?

Thanks for any help.

Ruzbasan

wolfeel · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:04 am Post subject:

Ruzbasan,
Hope this helps.......

(Start with a clean install of SHII).........
1. Create a new "folder" on your system ...name it "Pacific Aces" or whatever you want to call it ...(anything other than "Silent Hunter II")

IE: C:\ProgramFiles\Pacific Aces

2. Copy ALL of your existing Silent Hunter II files, folders, patches, etc. to the new folder that you created in step #1.
3. Copy the Silent Hunter II Icon from your desktop...paste it to your desktop and rename it to match the folder you made in step #1. Right click the icon, select "properties" and change the target to go to the "exe" file in the folder that you created in step #1.
4. Go to Add/Remove programs in Control Panel and uninstall Silent Hunter II.
5. Check to make sure that your original Silent Hunter II folder has been deleted....if not....delete it.
6. Run scandisk and defrag
7. Reboot system
8. Install Silent Hunter II (make sure to specify a different folder than the one you created in step #1)...the game default should be fine for most systems.
9. Install v1.1 interop patch
10. Install Project Messerwetzer v1.02 patch

You will now have two versions of the game....

Sixpack · Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 1429 Location: Friggin' Holland

Or you could simply do what I did:

Cut and paste the entire SH2 map somewhere else on your HD. I put the entire SSI map in 'my documents'

Then install PA in the 'default' place (as the game suggest @ autorun/install) .

Both games work okay here.

McBeck · Joined: 23 Feb 2001 Posts: 1660 Location: Denmark

As I understand this:

1) You have a fully modded SH2 install you would like to keep.
2) You want to play PA too.

The reason you are unable to install a second version of SH2 if because the SH2 installer checks the registry for SH2.
If it can find SH2 installed, it will not allow you to install it again.

Workaround:
1)Backup the registry keys conserning SH2.
2)Delete the keys.
3)You should now be able to install SH2 to a new location.
(I suggest you keep a copy of a clean install)
4)Restore the keys
5)Install PA to the new SH2 folder.

R Hardman · Joined: 31 May 2001 Posts: 805 Location: 29 Palms, Ca.

McBeck · Joined: 23 Feb 2001 Posts: 1660 Location: Denmark

Ruzbasan · Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 3

Thanks for the quick answers everyone, you have a great game community here.

I found the following procedure on another post and it worked well:

1.rename the original SH2 folder to "Silent Hunter 2_orig"
2.Insert SH2 CD and select uninstall (nothing is removed, only reg keys)
3.Install SH2 and patch 1.1
4.Rename this installation into "Silent Hunter II Pacific Aces"
5.Rename "Silent Hunter 2_orig" to "Silent Hunter 2"
6.Install PA into "Silent Hunter 2 Pacific Aces"

It worked very well.

Thanks everyone for your info.
Ruzbasan

Ruzbasan · Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 3

By the way, the above procedure was provided by a message on the forum from Seeadler.

Thanks Seeadler for the providing the install procedure above.

Ruzbasan

HKLE · Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 21

Hi folks

I do not know, if this is working for everyone. I simply copied the full contents of my SHII folder into another one with a different name, ran the exe file from Pacific Aces over the new folder and started the game from the exe file (SH2.exe in the shell subfolder). Everything seems to work fine ?

No fondling with registry. no deleting, no nothing except this ...

MadMike · Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 533

I have PA installed over my original SH2.
However, now I'd like to reinstall SH2 (while keeping PA). How can I easily go about this?

Yours, Mike

IYAAYAS!

AdamWarren · Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 7:57 am Post subject:

Floater · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 2300 Location: England

I've never had any problem just installing again into a different place. You don't need to rename or uninstall anything unless you run into problems.

MadMike · Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 533

Thanks guys, but both ideas didn't seem to work, overwrote everything back to original SH2 (likely a misplaced file on my part).

Floater wrote- "I've never had any problem just installing again into a different place. You don't need to rename or uninstall anything unless you run into problems."

Floater, can you be more specific?

Yours, Mike

Crash Dive · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 569 Location: San Diego, Ca.

I just renamed the "SSI" folder that had Pacific Aces installed in the program files folder to "Pacific Aces" Uninstalled through the control panel Add/Remove programs then opened and closed cdrom drive and reinstalled Silent Hunter 2 Then start Pacific Aces from the the shell or sim folder in it I don't remember which one has the proper shortcut. After installing there will be a new icon for SH2 on the desktop. :wink:

MadMike · Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 533

Crash Dive,
Thanks, that did it. Joking

The icon is in the shell folder. (renamed and placed on desk top)

Yours, Mike

IYAAYAS!