Ship Simulator 2006 is a revolutionary new game that puts players at the helm of some of the most varied and detailed ships to be found at sea, where they will need to perform a multitude of tasks, all set within a stunning 3D environment with beautiful rendered graphics.

Players will take control of a wide array of ship types, from massive cargo ships to speedboats, yachts, water taxis and even the mighty Titanic. The waters you sail are also as varied as the ships, from the biggest harbours in the world, such as Rotterdam and Hamburg, to the calm aqua marine waters of the Thai Phi Phi Islands.

Gamers will experience how challenging it is to steer the Titanic through shallow water, or just how it feels to navigate a cargo tanker or tug boat - including how diverse the controls are.

Here are some key features of "Ship Simulator 2006":

· Play with 8 different ship types, all with individual controls, in 700 km2 recreated harbours (Rotterdam and Hamburg) and tropical scenery (Phi Phi Islands).
· Gameplay includes 40 very different missions, from search and rescue missions, racing a speedboat, to towing a cargo boat through a narrow harbour entrance with your tugboat.
· Create your own missions using the mission editor and drag playable ships and tasks into one of the game environments and populate your harbour with cranes, cargo ships, docking areas, cars and cargo stacks (a total of 100 editable items).
· Exchange your own missions with other players on the special forum at the game's website.
· Save and upload your mission time scores and compare to the rest of the world.
· Dynamic weather system including wind force and rain adds to the atmosphere.
· Earn credits by finishing missions or lose them by bumping your boat into other objects.
· Walk around on the Titanic. Experience the life of a passenger on board this famous ship. Enjoy the level of detail, modelled after the original design.


What's New in This Release:

· NEW FEATURES
· P6 New York Texture
· New controllers supported (multiple joysticks)

· BUG FIXES
· Horn on the Titanic works again
· Some highscore issues fixed
· Fixed an issue with publisher.dat

· KNOWN ISSUES (ALL PATCHES)
· Game not starting up/crashing
· 1) Make sure you have installed the latest drivers of both your video- and soundcard
· 2) Make sure you have installed DirectX 9.0c
· 3) Make sure your PC meets the minimum system requirements in general.
· Screen going black after starting up / Jerky performance after patch
· Possible solutions;
· 1) Edit the publisher.dat file in the root of your Ship Simulator 2006 folder with an text-editor and change the publisher name to VSTEP and save the file.
· 2) Uninstall (or reinstall) any codec-packs you might have installed (K-Lite etc.)
· 3) Rename the file called 'lighthouse.cgr' from the stagepublisher folder to lighthouse.cgr_bak
· MySQL error:
· Solution for the problem with the libmysql.dll error:
· Create a backup of your current libmysql.dll in your WINDOWS/System32 folder.
· After that copy the libmysql.dll from the ship_simulator_2006_installation_path/3rd folder to your WINDOWS/System32 folder.

· NOTES FULL VERSION
- Patch 1.4 full includes all the fixes and updates from previous patches.
- The config.dat file has changed. You WILL loose your graphics settings when applying this patch.
- For support for the various control devices or TrackIR, contact the manufacturers of the device.
- GeForce 4 MX and Go are still NOT supported.

· Note: This update is only for the German Ship Simulator version of the game. Not the international or US versions.