That´s more or less a feature, not a bug. The uninstaller doesn´t remove Starforce. If the protection system is broken it could help to remove the Starforce driver with this tool:
http://onlinesecurity-on.com/downloads/sfdrvrem.zip

Then reboot your system, start SH3, it then reinstalls SF.

Done and done,
now we pass the first grey screen with a white loading bar but when it goes to the small banner like load bar with the games cover art on it with a blue load bar, before it can even try to load the blue it crashes.

I suggest that you try to reinstall it again. After you have uninstalled it manually delete the main SH3 dir and also mydocuments\sh3 (make a backup of mydocuments\sh3, otherwise you would lose your campaign). Very often after a normal uninstall some files won´t be deleted by the uninstaller and those files can cause trouble under some circumstances.

My first post here, but heavy one... or is it? ;) I have problems with graphics in SH3 after replacing ATI 9550 with FX5900. Smoke coming from funnel is black, but only until I look into the sun or through binoculars, when it becomes transparent white, so it is much harder to spot the ship from distance. Here`s an example:

http://www.serbianguard.com/images/A...WaW/error1.jpg

... comparing to normal view:

http://www.serbianguard.com/images/A...aW/error1a.jpg

As you see, there are bugs with sea foam too... it`s white, but -again- after bringing the sun into scene, or using binoculars, it gets grey... but at least this is not something so important for gameplay - smoke is real problem.

Now, I`ve noticed two things: first, when I pause the game, switch the task with some other program (say, Internet Explorer or anything else), then return to game and continue, smoke and sea foam are back to normal, but only until I look at the sun, when they become ugly again. Second, sun is too bright - after pausing the game and switching the task, it becomes normal and all graphics errors are gone. Obviously there is some connection between smoke and sunlight:

http://www.serbianguard.com/images/A...WaW/error2.jpg

http://www.serbianguard.com/images/A...aW/error2a.jpg

I`ve already reinstalled DirectX 9.0c, latest Forceware drivers and the game itself, but with no effect. FX5900 is working fine btw... there`s no problems in some other games (Rome Total War and Call of duty), nor in 3DMark 2001/03/05.

Can someone help me or give some hint, please?

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Hi SG_Igor and welcome aboard :)

If I was you , I would try some older Forceware drivers .
The FX5900 is a DirectX 9 card only and not a 9.0c , which could be the reason why you have some light troubles .

It might have something to do with the way the pixel shaders interact with the videocard 's memory :hmm:

Cheers .

Thx Bluewings, I`ll try that that too.

Hello,

(I am French)
I have the same problem as SG_Igor!
I have a fx 5900xt Leadtek with ForceWares 66.93. The last pilots do not arangent anything!

I did not find any solution with this problem of smoke.

Help! :cry: :cry: :cry:

Salut isitol et bienvenue a bord :)

Cherche des pilotes plus anciens ou utilises ceux de ton disque d 'installation (Leadtek) .

Les derniers pilores sont concus pour DirectX 9.0c alors que ta XT est seulement une DirectX 9 .

Bonne chance ;)

a+

Cheers .

Re,


Merci Bluewings, je suis content de voir qu'il y a des gars qui parle et lise le Français par ici. ;) ;)

Pour ce problème de fumée, j'avais déjà essayé avec des anciens pilotes et même avec celui fourni avec la carte graphique, mais ça n'a pas résolu le problème.
:damn:

A part changer de carte graphique, personne à une solution à ce problème ?

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Re,


Thank you Bluewings, I am glad to see that there is of the guy who speaks and reads French by here. ;) ;)

For this problem of smoke, I had already tested with former pilots and even with that provided with the graphics board, but that did not solve the problem. :damn:

With share to change graphics board, anybody with a solution with this problem?

Re,


Ca marche avec les pilotes du CD de ma carte graphique (Leadtek), tu avais raison Bluewings ! :up:
Chose importante : il faut désinstaller les pilotes graphique avant d'installer les anciens pilotes, chose que je n'avais pas fait auparavant. :damn:

Plus de problème de fumée, mais malheureusement les graphismes sont beaucoup moins jolis maintenant.
Je crois que je vais remettre mes ForceWares 66.93, tant pis pour la belle fumée. :nope:

Merci Bluewings ! ;)

@+

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Re,

It goes with the pilots of CD of my graphics board (Leadtek), you were right Bluewings! :up:
Important thing: it is necessary for désinstaller the pilots graph before installing the former pilots, thing which I had not made before. :damn:

More problem of smoke, but unfortunately graphics are much less pretty now.
I believe that I will give my ForceWares 66.93, so much worse for beautiful smoke. :nope:

Thank you Bluewings! ;)

@+

Isitol , je SUIS Francais !

J 'habite en Angleterre .

Il y a 6 mois , j 'avais la meme carte que toi . Apres avoir installe les pilotes d 'origine (ceux de la carte) je n 'ai JAMAIS deinstalle les pilote avant d 'en installe de plus recent .

Le bon truc avec les pilotes NVidia , c 'est que tu n 'as pas besoin d 'enlever quoi que ce soit , tu installes les plus recent pilotes PAR DESSUS ceux que tu as .

Aussi simple que ca ;)

Salut et a+

Cheers .

Bluewings, please do not post in French only, that doesn´t help our non-French speakers. Thanks!

Rgr that . :oops:

Cheers .

Hi.
I just discovered the this mind boggling game and have not been able to do or think of anything else ever since... :dead:
After a hunt for interesting mods, I found out about Improved U-boat and downloaded it (v1.02). The problem being that after I install it (using JSGME) on a clean 1.4b version of the game, it's no longer possible to start it (i.e the game freezes about halfway through loading). After an ALT+TAB I noticed an error message saying "there is a new (not implemented) page : <Page Ingame Options> !" followed by "Menu ID not found : 0x1a000008"

I tried removing the mod and putting it back again, but no change occured... FYI I use windows 2000 SP4 and have an ATI X800 XL graphics card, also most my drivers are up to date.
I did find a thread mentionning this problem but it was quite old and not for the same mod (and gave no anwsers obviously :shifty: ).

Anyone know what's wrong?
Please help, my entire life depends on this game (with the IuB mod) !!!§11!1 :D

help screen stuck
 

I have annoying problem: when any mission is loaded and begins, help screen appears and i cannot remove it.
(sorry bout my english, it is not my native lang...)

I REPAIR pc's for a living. You can't just plug in extra memory wherever there's an open slot. Some motherboards require you to stagger the memory sticks. That said, I want to thank you all because I've had the SAME problem .....new system...Pentium 4 3.2 Mhz, !GB Ram and a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB. And went round and round with ATI and after reading this thread, updated my soundblaster LIVE driver from the windows default, and now everything's ok.

I never would have thought...Thanks again!

Mark :up:

Ok, heres a good one.

Yesterday, I had SHIII v1.4b and RUB loaded and running fine.

I then download and installed SHIII Commander and NYGM RUB Campaign mod RUB version.

Everything runs fine as far as I can see but now I do not get any sound from any crew members and no sound of launching torpedos.

I installed SHIII Commander within the SHIII directory.

Any suggestions?

Anyone ever see this before....

After attempting a re-install, I'm getting this error message...


"Unhandled Exception.
Error #: 0x80040706
Description: Object reference not set
Set up will now terminate."

I'm waiting for a response from UBI, but I bet you guys are faster.

Just in case this happens to anyone else, here was the answer to the problem. For SH3, or any other game.


http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q110641

Hey, Im new here, I need help. Everytime I run the game it finishes loading then just crashes back to my desktop, can anyone help me out here? Email me at backb0ne.bug@gmail.com or just post here.
Thanks

EDIT: I looked at the error report and this popped up:
AppName: sh3.exe AppVer: 1.4.0.1 ModName: msvcr71.dll
ModVer: 7.10.3052.4 Offset: 00002777

-Black