How I Installed GWX Knight's Cross Edition on Arch Linux
I always love to play some war games especially about World War 2 where there's some historical weapon or machinery we can use at. i found myself quite fond of playing a submarine simulator games with a good mechanics, i don't really care about the graphics at all.
I easily managed to run the games with steam using proton and it ran smoothly i'd rather say. not so long after quite some times, i discovered this megamod for Silent Hunter 3 called GWX - Knight's Cross Edition. it's a successor to the Grey Wolves eXpansion.
I started doing some research on how to install it on the internet but not finding very much, then i joined their discord server and lucky me, i saw someone creating a post about it. i started by preparing all the necessary resource in order to get anything in place.
Installing Necessary Resources
It's as easy as it says, i can just install the launcher from the AUR using a helper. i always use yay:
yay -S --noconfirm faugus-launcher
It's gonna compile it since it's not a binary files unless there's a bin prefix to it. it's not gonna take long for it to install. after installing the launcher, i can start to install the megamod files from here. (and remember to download 7zip).
total 21116 drwxr-xr-x 8 yzuaf yzuaf 4096 Aug 12 07:15 . drwxr-xr-x 3 yzuaf yzuaf 4096 Aug 12 06:45 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 16896 Jun 14 2005 anim.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 13312 Jun 14 2005 BezierWaypoint.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 377856 Feb 14 2003 binkw32.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 86016 Oct 11 2011 CameraBehavior.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 18944 Jun 14 2005 CameraManager.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 195072 May 9 2010 d3d9.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 205 Sep 14 2014 d3d9.ini drwxr-xr-x 29 yzuaf yzuaf 4096 Mar 8 23:15 data -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 489984 Aug 29 2002 dbghelp.dll drwxr-xr-x 9 yzuaf yzuaf 4096 Mar 12 01:50 documentation -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 16896 Jun 14 2005 DrawLib.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 81920 Mar 1 2000 EaxMan.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 45056 Jun 14 2005 EffectManagers.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 151552 Nov 12 2014 EnvSim.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 24064 Jun 14 2005 EventCamera.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 61440 Aug 12 07:37 FileManager.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 41472 Feb 13 2012 hsie.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 1182 Jul 2 2012 HSIEContents.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 6374 Feb 20 2026 hsie.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 36372 Dec 9 2014 HSIEoptions.chm -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 323584 Jul 6 2011 HsieOptionsSelector.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 73728 Jan 27 2005 Intro.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 1197568 Aug 8 2010 JSGME.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 218 Mar 12 02:17 JSGME.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 162794 Apr 24 2005 'JSGME Silent Hunter III Explorer example.jpg' -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 458752 Feb 11 2005 Kernel.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 36864 Jun 14 2005 LipsSync.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 49152 Jun 14 2005 MessageNet.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 11264 Jun 14 2005 MissionEngine.dll drwxr-xr-x 17 yzuaf yzuaf 4096 Mar 12 02:12 MODS -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 15872 Jun 14 2005 movietex.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 499712 Mar 19 2003 msvcp71.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 348160 Feb 21 2003 msvcr71.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 393216 Jun 14 2005 Multiplayer.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 544768 Sep 30 2006 MultiSH3.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 65536 Jun 14 2005 Particles.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 22016 Aug 16 2004 property.dll drwxr-xr-x 2 yzuaf yzuaf 4096 Dec 30 2025 Screenshots -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 147456 Feb 1 2012 SH3Collisions.act drwxr-xr-x 15 yzuaf yzuaf 4096 Mar 6 21:22 'SH3 Commander' -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 147456 Jun 14 2005 SH3Controllers.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 11751354 Jun 14 2005 sh3.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 866803 Aug 20 19:43 sh3enhancer.log -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 1384448 Aug 12 07:34 sh3.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 450560 Jun 14 2005 Sh3MissionEditor.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 282624 Jul 6 2012 SH3Sim.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 73728 Jul 22 2012 SH3Sound.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 167936 Jun 14 2005 SimData.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 217088 Jun 14 2005 Sound.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 45056 Jun 14 2005 StateMachineCtl.act -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 77824 Jun 17 2004 StateMachine.dll drwxr-xr-x 4 yzuaf yzuaf 4096 Mar 6 21:22 Support -rw-r--r-- 1 yzuaf yzuaf 65536 Jun 14 2005 Utils.dll
All of the above is the files after i unzip it.
NOTE: I have to run the original Silent Hunter 3 from the steam 1 time before doing anything.
Putting it Together
All these below i have to do it in the following order.
Create The Main Entry
After finished downloading all stuff above, i open the launcher and here's the step:
- open the launcher, and create new entry
- fill in the title, it's not gonna matter.
- enter path:
/home/user/Games/GWX-KnightsCross/sh3.exe - fill the prefix from steam for the prefix field:
/home/user/Faugus/gwx---knights-cross-edition - choose
GE-Proton-Latest
Create HsieOptionsSelector Entry
Do something similar with the main entry.
- enter title, whatever.
- path:
/home/user/Games/GWX-KnightsCross/HsieOptionsSelector.exe - select the same prefix as before.
- same proton version
- run the entry and i leave everything by default.
Create MultiSH3 Entry
Same as before.
- enter the title.
- path:
/home/user/Games/GWX-KnightsCross/MultiSH3.exe - prefix is the same.
- same proton version.
- after entering all fields, run the entry.
Final Step, SH 3 Commander Entry
This is the last entry we need.
- create the title.
- add this path:
/home/user/Games/GWX-KnightsCross/SH3 Commander/SH3Cmdr.exe - same prefix.
- and same proton version.
- run it.
Conclusion
Run the SH3 Commander if i want to play in order to manage all the career entry. you may wanna have multiple career. and remember to enter the name and the starting year at the games similar to the ones you choose before. and please note that you have to buy the original games first on steam, and do not merge this megamod with the ones from steam. you have to create a separate directory.
