Direct X is up to date, heres the card
Intel GMA X4500HD

It looks like although your card is on the upper end of the series, it probably wont allow you to play graphic heavy 3d games such as SH3, hence the 2d portions of the game are ok once it tries to open "meat" of SH3 it craps out. This is not an expert opinion just based on a quick search for the specs on your card.

Hmm odd... I was able to play SH3 on a computer with a worse card than this, but the other PC was an XP. That explains it probably?

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I really dont know. xp should not matter. You could start over and do a reinstall, follow the directions to make sure everything is removed. You may need to look up info on this site for that. try things one at a time. if the game runs without being modded/patched you will be able to isolate the problem. The info on the card that i read says it has good qualities for dvd play back and hdmi output but that its 3d gaming specs were not great. It may be enough to play the game but perhaps not.

What I did was just install the game, should I try reinstalling it, and redoing the 1.4b stuff? I did all of that to run with no DVD. So no starforce and all that.

If you can confirm that the game runs without being modded/patched then you will know that something went wrong a;long the way. You may also save yourself some time and make sure that your card can support the game. I think there is a forum dedicated to intel cards. Do a search for your card and see if you can find one. Might be easier than re-insalling everything

I GOT IT!! YEEEES!!! Thanks to all that posted in this thread. I just redid Neal's thread, AND IT WORKS!! WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! :yeah::yeah::yeah:

great! sometimes it is a simple thing that fixes it.I couldnt get Hitmans GUI to work properly and after much tinkering a tiime wasteds it was because i forgot to select manual targeting:damn:

I didnt install in program files this time. And I also ran the setup as admin.