In silent Hunter II, fortress Europe mission, the game freezes up exactly at time interval 1349hrs after all mission objectives are completed. It then crashes and comes up with screen blanker in which the only way to get out of it is by hitting ctrl-alt-del. Any suggestions and ideas? I think I have every patch that is out there.

I am having the same EXACT issue. I heard there was a bug with this mission that was fixed with the 1.1 patch. This was installed, but I am also running Messerwetzer 1.3 (under win88 SE). I doubt this is the conflict. This seems to be a coding bug. Any suggestions, we need some help!

- Brian

Went to source and found an answer myself - of course, I'd still rather play this one out...

Question
Silent Hunter II always crashes on the Fortress Europe mission. How can I skip this mission?

Answer
The Fortress Europe mission has problems on some systems. Here is how to skip the mission:

With text editor, open the file \sim\sim.ini (in the game folder)

Add the following section to the bottom:

[ULTIMATION]
Cheat = TRUE

Then, in a mission, hit ctrl-shift-~ (tilde).

That will "win" the mission automatically.