Silent Hunter IV will not run upon clicking Icon

RJBub1 · 08-17-15, 03:55 PM

Hey everyone, I've had a problem with SHIV for the last few months.
I was playing it fine about a year ago, then I got a new MSI Computer. I put the disc (it was with the U-Boat add-on) in the slot, and I got ''You have new apps that can open this type of file'' or something like that. So, I clicked that, and then clicked Run SH4autorun.exe (or whatever its called),
and the installer popped up. So I clicked accept with the agreement, basically did it normal. After its done installing, I click the desktop icon and
What? Nothing happens? It does the little disc loading/thinking ''icon'', and then disappears (the loading ''icon''.) I go to task manager, and it says under processes and NOT apps, Silent Hunter IV (32 bit). I end the task and repeat the process. Same thing. I research on the ubi forums and here, and it says not to install under the program files x86. So I uninstall it, reinstall it in its own folder, and repeated the process of clicking it and hoping to play the game. Again. The loading ''icon'' spins and loads, and nothing happens except seeing my desktop normal. By now, I'm angered. I have played the game for at least a year, and now a SHIV is not working on a GAMING computer. That was when I had Windows 7. A few months later, I pick up a virus and have to reset my PC. After that, I remember about SHIV, and do everything again, and then... nothing. Again and again nothing. My PC also installed Windows 8, on my computer. (And SHIV was working on my old computer on windows 7.) So then I try every single option in troubleshooting. Nothing works. By now I'm thinking, maybe my disc is bad. So I go on amazon and buy and download the regular wolves of the pacific. After all this, installing, the SAME thing happens AGAIN. And I am just furious now, I spent $9.00 for a game that won't even run. Here I am now, still figuring it out. I need help to figure this out, ANY help is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Crannogman · 08-17-15, 04:25 PM

I had a similar thing happen when I reinstalled on a new hard drive (same system othwerwise) a couple weeks ago. Oddly enough, I can still open it through Steam...

Sorry I have no answers for you

ColonelSandersLite · 08-17-15, 04:48 PM

You're going to need to post your specs if you want any chance of somebody helping you out.

RJBub1 · 08-17-15, 04:54 PM

CPU: 4th generation Intel Core i7/i5 Processor

OS: Windows 8.1

Memory: 2 x DDR3L-1600 MHz,max 16GB

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Drive: BD Combo / DVD Super Multi

Aktungbby · 08-17-15, 04:59 PM

RJBub1!

RJBub1 · 08-17-15, 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

RJBub1!

Thanks!

merc4ulfate · 08-17-15, 05:31 PM

First question. The hard drive you are installing this onto is it the same hard drive you had before or did you scrap it and are using a completely new hard drive?

If this is the same hard drive you had before the new OS did you do a complete format of the entire drive before installing the new OS?

RJBub1 · 08-17-15, 05:39 PM

When I had SHIV working, it was on my old computer. That computer's screen is now blue and black (Literally.) So I got rid of that one, and did not take the hard drive. So I am using a completely ''new'' hard drive - I have had this computer for 8 months figuring the problem out and still haven't figured it out.

08-17-15, 03:55 PM	#1
RJBub1 Mate Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 52 Downloads: 159 Uploads: 0	Silent Hunter IV will not run upon clicking Icon Hey everyone, I've had a problem with SHIV for the last few months. I was playing it fine about a year ago, then I got a new MSI Computer. I put the disc (it was with the U-Boat add-on) in the slot, and I got ''You have new apps that can open this type of file'' or something like that. So, I clicked that, and then clicked Run SH4autorun.exe (or whatever its called), and the installer popped up. So I clicked accept with the agreement, basically did it normal. After its done installing, I click the desktop icon and What? Nothing happens? It does the little disc loading/thinking ''icon'', and then disappears (the loading ''icon''.) I go to task manager, and it says under processes and NOT apps, Silent Hunter IV (32 bit). I end the task and repeat the process. Same thing. I research on the ubi forums and here, and it says not to install under the program files x86. So I uninstall it, reinstall it in its own folder, and repeated the process of clicking it and hoping to play the game. Again. The loading ''icon'' spins and loads, and nothing happens except seeing my desktop normal. By now, I'm angered. I have played the game for at least a year, and now a SHIV is not working on a GAMING computer. That was when I had Windows 7. A few months later, I pick up a virus and have to reset my PC. After that, I remember about SHIV, and do everything again, and then... nothing. Again and again nothing. My PC also installed Windows 8, on my computer. (And SHIV was working on my old computer on windows 7.) So then I try every single option in troubleshooting. Nothing works. By now I'm thinking, maybe my disc is bad. So I go on amazon and buy and download the regular wolves of the pacific. After all this, installing, the SAME thing happens AGAIN. And I am just furious now, I spent $9.00 for a game that won't even run. Here I am now, still figuring it out. I need help to figure this out, ANY help is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

08-17-15, 04:25 PM	#2
Crannogman Watch Officer Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Kansas City, Missouri Posts: 343 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	I had a similar thing happen when I reinstalled on a new hard drive (same system othwerwise) a couple weeks ago. Oddly enough, I can still open it through Steam... Sorry I have no answers for you __________________ "The sea shall ride over her and she shall live in it like a duck" ~John Ericsson

08-17-15, 04:48 PM	#3
ColonelSandersLite Captain Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 481 Downloads: 71 Uploads: 3	You're going to need to post your specs if you want any chance of somebody helping you out. __________________ My SH4 LP

08-17-15, 04:54 PM	#4
RJBub1 Mate Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 52 Downloads: 159 Uploads: 0	My comp specs CPU: 4th generation Intel Core i7/i5 Processor OS: Windows 8.1 Memory: 2 x DDR3L-1600 MHz,max 16GB Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 840M Drive: BD Combo / DVD Super Multi

08-17-15, 04:59 PM	#5
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,963 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	welcome aboard! RJBub1! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

08-17-15, 05:31 PM	#7
merc4ulfate DILLIGAF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: florida Posts: 2,058 Downloads: 210 Uploads: 0	First question. The hard drive you are installing this onto is it the same hard drive you had before or did you scrap it and are using a completely new hard drive? If this is the same hard drive you had before the new OS did you do a complete format of the entire drive before installing the new OS? __________________ Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. ~Isaac Asimov~ Mercfulfate 将補日本帝國海軍

08-17-15, 05:39 PM	#8
RJBub1 Mate Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 52 Downloads: 159 Uploads: 0	-- When I had SHIV working, it was on my old computer. That computer's screen is now blue and black (Literally.) So I got rid of that one, and did not take the hard drive. So I am using a completely ''new'' hard drive - I have had this computer for 8 months figuring the problem out and still haven't figured it out.