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Thanks very much for the great responses! I finally figured out how to throw a grenade at an area. I'm sure after some more trial and error, I'll discover more intricacies. I still haven't been able to make it through a mission without having at least one member of my team die. I know it's cheating, but I usually just reload the last "safe" file and proceed from there (with the new knowledge of the threat of course). I've transitioned all my soldiers to rifles except one (who has a heavy machine gun). The rifles give me many more options, and I move to pistols in the close in fight (where I formerly used the SMG). The game is way too addicting though, and I spent all last night dreaming about clicking in moving along colored dots...anyone else have that problem?

I'm active duty USAF living in Korea. I read about Silent Storm in one of my gaming magazines, and since I enjoyed X-com. I decided to purchase a copy of Silent Storm over the internet. Installed it a few days ago and after tweaking the graphics settings a little, am on my way. I have a few questions now that I've completed two missions. I apologize if this is not the proper forum to ask... 1) How do you throw grenades or shoot your weapon at a door or other object? A few times, I encountered enemy that was "red" (because I couldn't see them) and I wanted to chuck a grenade in the middle of their group. They were very close, so I don't think range was the issue. My engineer (strength of 10) had the 'nade. Another time, I couldn't get through a door (it wasn't boobytrapped because my other engineer was there and she had previously detected and disarmed a boobytrapped door), and I wanted to blow the door up, but I couldn't figure out how. Each time I equipped the gun or grenade, all I got was a finger symbol or the red circle with the slash through it. 2) A few times, there was a game clue on the table, but my character couldn't pick it up. Was his/her intelligence too low? 3) How do I train on a new weapon? I picked up a new machine gun, but the familiarity to my soldier was zero. Should I just use it and he will train up automatically? 4) I've been reading on this forum about numerous patches, but I don't want to make the game unrealistic by adding super weapons or by increasing my characters' abilities beyond reasonable levels. What patches are essential (don't need 1.2 since I already have it) to improve game play without creating a "win button?" (Right now I'm playing on the easy level to familiarize myself with the game, then I'll increase the level). 5) When I'm back at "headquarters," only my team leader can trade with the weapons guy. So I have to trade back and forth with my leader and the other 5 team members. Is that the intent? I guess that's all for now. If this post is not appropriate for this forum, please let me know. Thanks!

Yes, I tried to install the patch again and received the same error message. So I came back to the trusty forums and did a little more browsing. Someone else posted the same question earlier, and I discovered since I have the English version, I already have 1.2 installed. Now I'm going to look in the forum to try to discover the "heirarchy" of weapons and opinions on the optimal team composition. I currently have 3 snipers, 2 soldiers, and an engineer. Not sure if this is best...

Thank you Sir! I accomplished all three steps and have zero lag!!!

I just installed Silent Storm and played the tutorial with a little bit of lag, but not enough to ruin the game. When I started the campaign however, the lag became atrocious, and it does not allow me to continue. I am playing Silent Storm on my laptop, an AMD Athlon XP processor 3000+ with 512MB DDR SDRAMM. Also, when I try to install the ver 1.2 patch (UK), it says the game is installed improperly. I uninstalled and then reinstalled, and I still get the same message. What am I doing wrong? Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.