There are several things you can try.

Disable Autorun. Download and install TweakUI:
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ertoySetup.exe

Start it, go to My Computer, Autoplay, Drives, deselect your CD ROM and click Apply. Then go to My Computer, Autoplay, Types and deselect Enable Autoplay for CD and DVD drivers, click Apply. Exit the program, reboot and try to install SH3.

Update/reinstall the chipset drivers of your board:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_...xp64_6.86.html

If that helped your next problem will be that the version of Starforce that comes with SH3 doesn´t run under WinXP 64-bit, so you can´t start SH3. There is no official solution for that. Use Google to find a fix.

red u-boot under water
 

Hello all, as this is my first post I would like to greet everyone :cool:

To the point. Everything with SH3 graphics is ok on my comp but there's one thing that I really don't like and, as I remember, I havent met this problem in the previous installations. Well, the problem is that my u-boot and all ships are red underwater :roll: I really find it kinda strange - above water everything is ok but with camera underwater these red shadows look realy nasty.

My graphics is GF6600GT (with latest drivers).
I'd be very grateful for any help.

Greets,
naiver

Cant seem to pause the game for any extended period of time with out the game locking up. I happens as well on the opening screen.....it I leave for about 10+ minutes...It will be locked up....most of the time.:nope: (p.s....not screen saver...it's set to 50 minutes, dont know if that would cause it)


Pentium 4 128 GHZ CPU
512 Ram
6600 GT (latest driver)

All of the sudden my attack periscope now takes forever to dry off (for the water to run down and view clears up)--it stays blurry for a really long time (45 sec to minute) even at shallow periscope depth making taking shots and tracking a pain-it clears up eventually and then when a wave hits its back to blurry for another minute!!! My Observation scope is fine and doesn't do this--only the attack scope. this is just killing me because it just started happening for no reason yesterday--have been playing for over a month and it was fine. I didn't install any new mods that would affect graphics-- I have latest video drivers and have tried the sedona and extreme forceware 84.xx drivers. No major changes to my system except changing sound acceleration (which i tried changing back)for SWAT 4 to run. I am using:

SH3 Commander 2.6(tried starting without to see if it would fix it--didn't)
Grey Wolves 1.1a
Das Boot Clothes
TDC Slideout for attack scope--this should be a must have btw!(been installed and working fine)

Anyone else had this problem -- there is no slowdown or system lag--the damn thing just stays blurry so i can't see through it...it happens in carreer and single missions and i noticed it yesterday when continuing my career(in base patrol 6). no changes to SH3 Commander config...confused....Anyone run into this--or is there a mod to install little windshield wipers on the attack scope?
thx

I've been having these until recently so here is how i fixed it for those who might benefit--

write down the menuid # when the error pops up --
search on that number in the menu1024.ini file or dials.cfg
see what it refers to, i.,e. periscope stuff or tdc layout, etc. then search on that to see if you find anything suspicious. usually the menu numbers are duplicated or out of order:

Mine turned out to be a double numbering of G3F I140 -- so I had to renumber everything after G3F I140. I was using:

GW 1.1a
SH3 Comm 2.6
TDC Slideout for attack scope
4Dials slideout

now everything runs flawlessly. no errors

Sound Issues
 

Hi,

I have just completed a reinstall from disk - 1.4 - NYGM mod and everything was fine as I pootled across the sea.

I then ran into a warship which dropped some depth charges and then as they exploded my sound went insane. It was like it was being put through a filter, had echos, screeches, white noise etc.

I exited from the mission and then it suddenly went really mental, just very loud white noise.

I tried loading the mission from my save and the sound was still bad.

All my drivers are fine, everything is ok and the game always used to work.

I will try uninstalling the NYGM mod to see if that helps, but beyond that does anyone have any suggestions?

thanks,

/Mad

in my periscope view on my notepad where it says ship,all it says is "contact" not the name of the ship,im wondering do i have to change something in the cfg file:hmm: ,it gives the range to target,AOB and speed okay.im playing with weopons officers assistance and not manual targeting.

This is just me guessing, do you have TGW mod?

I have it to and I crossed the option when installing the mod something about Names of the ships

I like the Contact idea because now i have to come close to identify the ship.
only the target manual is also showing Contacts everywhere is this normal?:hmm:

Indeed it's because of you enabling "Generic ship contact names" in the GW options.If you want ship names back ,re-install GW and un-tick that options.

can i just deactivate the Greywolves mod in the enabler? then where do i go from there? to un-tick the "generic ship contact names" in GW options.BTW thanks for the quick reply.

Don't exactly know what you have to do if you used JSGME mod enabler...I was talking about the actual "setup-install" .When you install that ,you have to choose some options(one of them being the ship contact names).

Coldplay
 

Does anybody know where I can get the 'speed of sound' Mod, that gives a realistic delay on distant explosions?

http://server3.realsimulation.com/u-boot/SH3Mods/ look for "average joes torpedo and deck gun speed of sound mod"

Thank you.:D

With all the posts on these forums from people complaining that they can't get SH3 to run on their systems, I'm beginning to wonder what DOES work?

I'm awaiting delivery of my new system with an AMD Athion 64 X3 4200+ dual-core 2.2 GHZ processor. Graphics card is an ATI Radeon X1600 XT. Will that run SH3?

If you are currently running SH3 with no problems, what system are you running?

:hmm: