New Graphics Card Issue - Please Help

[K Gunz]

Hello everyone,

I hope someone can offer some advice here. I have just upgraded my graphics card from an ATI 6100 (basic card) to a NVIDIO EN9600GT. It seems to work fine with online games but will not open my SH3. Everytime I try, it gets to an almost complete load bar prior to the 'not so long ago' screen and then crashes.

I am in port and about to start patrol 8. I am running GWX2.1 with a multitude of Mods including SH3 Commander, Weather and SH3 Generator. These were all running fine before I installed the new graphics card. Has anybody else experienced this and how did you solve it? Or is there some setting that I must change so that it recognises the new card - if so would somebody be able to give me instructions? I am running a VISTA system. Any help appreciated.

Regards

[Contact]

Hello everyone,

I hope someone can offer some advice here. I have just upgraded my graphics card from an ATI 6100 (basic card) to a NVIDIO EN9600GT. It seems to work fine with online games but will not open my SH3. Everytime I try, it gets to an almost complete load bar prior to the 'not so long ago' screen and then crashes.

I am in port and about to start patrol 8. I am running GWX2.1 with a multitude of Mods including SH3 Commander, Weather and SH3 Generator. These were all running fine before I installed the new graphics card. Has anybody else experienced this and how did you solve it? Or is there some setting that I must change so that it recognises the new card - if so would somebody be able to give me instructions? I am running a VISTA system. Any help appreciated.

Regards

Hi,

Try to reinstall SH3 from scratch, it might help..

[danurve]

I don't know Nvidia jazz but before you installed the drivers for your new card I'm wondering if you uninstalled the ati-catalyst. There is a utility that removes all trace driver elements, not just from add/remove.

[FIREWALL]

I don't know Nvidia jazz but before you installed the drivers for your new card I'm wondering if you uninstalled the ati-catalyst. There is a utility that removes all trace driver elements, not just from add/remove.


Good Catch danurve :up:

Thats probably his problem. You beat me to the draw. :D :rotfl:

[Wartzay]

I don't know Nvidia jazz but before you installed the drivers for your new card I'm wondering if you uninstalled the ati-catalyst. There is a utility that removes all trace driver elements, not just from add/remove.

Good Catch danurve :up:

Thats probably his problem. You beat me to the draw. :D :rotfl:
here's a link to it! :up:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745

my advice to run this, clean out the old ati drivers and then reinstall SH3

[FIREWALL]

I don't know Nvidia jazz but before you installed the drivers for your new card I'm wondering if you uninstalled the ati-catalyst. There is a utility that removes all trace driver elements, not just from add/remove.

Good Catch danurve :up:

Thats probably his problem. You beat me to the draw. :D :rotfl:
here's a link to it! :up:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745

my advice to run this, clean out the old ati drivers and then reinstall SH3

Thx Wartzay :up: This is a good software tool for everyone to have. :yep:

[StarLion45]

:o Oh my God what a tool.
I downloaded it and cleaned up everything , and after that I downloaded and installing new drivers from the same site too:lol: for my graphic card NVIDIA 8600 GT GE Force 512 mb ram . Hmm , I know , but it works fine for me:lol:
So now I wanna thank KGunz for this post . Thanks a lot KGunz:sunny:

HAPPY HUNTING EVERYONE!!!

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[K Gunz]

Hi everyone,

Thanks very much for the great advice but unfortunately, this appears not to be a free disk clean device:cry:. I become very concerned when a site supposedly provides a free service only to then insist on you becoming a member. Are there any other suggestions out there which may be able to help me?.

Regards

[K Gunz]

I have tried the advice, including the disk cleaner and I am now a lot poorer. I have been unable to open the disk cleaner and I am also unable to open SH-3 (I have sound but a black screen at the entry menu screen). I have also tried installing SH-4 and have the same problem. Any advice appreciated as it looks like early retirement is in the offing.

Regards

[nirwana]

Might be a shot in the dark but set 3D to high performance in the setup utility which comes with the driver installed. Then turn on advanced settings and play with the profile settings of sh3 to get a descend balance between performance and quality. Depending which supermode im playing i set AA 16q or 8q, supersampling, tripple buffering, dynamic shadow and 1280x1024 in the main.cfg with a 8800gtx. Even with this gfxcard i got a black screen and CTD after loading with standard 3D setting to high quality.

[Reece]

It dies in a career but does it go ok in both Museum & Naval Academy?:-?

[u-960]

Hi.I had and still have a problem like that but it doesn't crash i just wait and it loads after about 5mim.

Does your game crash or jam if its jam on the loading screen then you might need to wait a few mins. I also run GWX2.1 on Vista:ping:

[K Gunz]

Hi Guys,

Great advice but not there yet, I have played around with the resolution settings and changed the card setting from Quality to Performance. I can now open SH3 and I can start an academy mission and also the museum but, if I try a single mission the load bar gets to about half way and then it crashes. Any ideas guys? :roll:

Regards

[nascar]

Hello K Gunz, i think i had the same problem as you. I disabled in jsgme the location for holtenau and brunsbeattel locks. Then the problem was gone. I hope it helps you also.

[K Gunz]

Hi Nascar,

Thanks for the advice. I am running an unmodded patched to 1.4 version at the moment and I have nothing installed in JSGME. I don't think the problem is the same as yours. Thanks anyway.

Regards

[Subject]

I have tried the advice, including the disk cleaner and I am now a lot poorer. I have been unable to open the disk cleaner and I am also unable to open SH-3 (I have sound but a black screen at the entry menu screen). I have also tried installing SH-4 and have the same problem. Any advice appreciated as it looks like early retirement is in the offing.

Regards:roll: why didn't you pick up ATI's own - and free! - removal tool? Available on their site, as well as part of your drivers installation...

As a cleaning tools, you may have wanted this: http://www.ccleaner.com/
Free too and a very smooth tool...

Sorry for being late! http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z15/subject_rod/smilies/biggrin2.gif


When I upgraded to nVidea a couple of months ago, I had the same symptoms as you. Could run many things, but SH3/SH4 crashed as you described it.
Somewhere I read a guy having the same thing and he solved it by pressing the graphics card very firm into it's socket.
Use a hand on the back of your motherboard to press the two together, don't forget to turn of power and removing powercord first.

It did the trick for me. Has been running steady as a rock since.


Of course now my motherboard has been upgraded too and I noticed the PCIe-socket came with a much deeper socket? it clearly allows the gfx-card to be inserted deeper and the pressing procedure hasn't been necessary at all??

Your motherboard shouldn't by any chance be a MSI?

[TheDarkWraith]

how did you uninstall your old ATI card? Add/remove programs for the drivers? It would be best to:
Uninstall the ATI software. Reboot the system letting it boot up with the default vga drivers (if it asks to automatically find and install drivers click cancel). Check ATI's website for a utility that cleans out all traces of their drivers and download and run it. Reboot.
uninstall the card using the device manager and clicking on display adaptors and then right clicking on the ATI card and selecting uninstall. Shutdown. Install new video card. Reboot to default vga driver. Finally install the latest nForce drivers (ensure that the driver version supports your card!). Should work. That's how I did it when I upgraded from the X800XL to the 8800GTX but I have XP Pro but that shouldn't make much of a difference :D

[K Gunz]

Hi Racerboy,

Thanks for the advice, I could not find an uninstall utility to remove all ATI programs from my Vista 32 bit package. Still, I have searched everywhere for ATI files and removed them. There is still no joy I am afraid. Any ideas?

Rgds

[Reece]

I would say that if you can open the museum & the academy missions the only thing missing is the cities & locations, the museum has the ships & U-boats, the academy has all except the cities, locations, traffic (scripts), I think the single player missions use the campaign files so I would start with checking the Lnd mis files & locations.:-?
Have you got a new installed 1.4b game or a rolled back version that could be corrupt.:doh:

[K Gunz]

Thanks very much for all of your advice Karleuns,

I tried the complete uninstall in the end and still no joy. I took my machine back to the shop where I bought the card from (Antech in St Ives, Cambs), they laboriously searched for the solution and found it.

Right click on SH3 icon on desktop - select Compatability tab - under Privilege Level heading, select 'Run this program as administrator'.

In the Compatability mode heading I currently have 'Windows XP (Service Pack 2)' also selected.

I now am able to access SH3 once more, unfortunately all of my career info is gone. I now have to start from scratch. But hey, that is a small sacrifice for being able to get back to my beloved U-83 :D.

Rgds to all

[Wolfehunter]

K guns if all else fails then you will have to format your hardrive and reinstall Vista.

Back up all your stuff and do this as a last resort. I know its a pain. But maybe the only way with a fresh OS install.

Even with Windows XP sometimes it only could handle so many hardware changes before it had some issues.


Vista might be worse? :hmm: