movie/intro problem

[kaizerkat]

Hello everyone. I have a problem that I'm hoping someone can help me with. Recently, I recently purchased a Dell computer and an external multi-player DVD unit in order to run SH3. I have also installed Invidia 6200 graphics card. With my old computer, when I downloaded the SH3 game, I had no problems, but with my new Dell, I have been having issues with the intro. For example, it would load up normally, but to go into the actual game my screen would be black. I paid a computer technician to see what he could do and he said that he did something with the intro/movie file where he bypassed the movie and that seemed to fix the problem.

I downloaded a few mods and got a menu ID error message so I then uninstalled the game and now, instead of getting a blank screen, I get after the protection tool runs immediately I get a scrambled screen that flashes for a few seconds and then freezes which I have to turn off the computer in order to just to get back on the desktop.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on and what I should do? Thanks and good hunting.

[Gizzmoe]

Deleted both wmv video files from data\movies\intro.

[irish1958]

Gizzmoe suggests deleting the movie files from the data\movies\into .
This doesnt work for me. I had to do a fresh install of SH3. I then saved the movie folder in my documents. Whenever these files get deleted by a mod or just corrupted, I reinstall this folder in my SHIII data file. My computer won't load the game unless the movie files are present, intact, and run at startup. I just hit the enter key and bypass them when they start as the game loads.
irish1958

[HunterICX]

I had an similar problem too, but not only in SH3 but in all my games the Intro movie (mostly .WMV) didnt work

after a while i noticed that i had to upgrade my Windows media player till the latest..that worked for me
maybe you should try that.

so try to Upgrade your Windows media player to the last version avaible

GL