black screen
 

hey guys.. i have a problem here

i reinstalled sh4 after a long time and plied the 1.4 patch after it
rebooted my compy and tried to play it
it works fine untill after the video ( loading screen )
there it turns all black but i an hear the music playing
so i have vista normally i dont have any problem with that

i checked the run as administrator also compitable mode set to xp (sp2)
same result..

whats wrong? can anyone help me with this problem?

EDIT: IM ABOUT TO REINSTALL SH4 WITHOUT THE PATCH ILL KEEP U UPDATED

pc specs:

OS: windows vista home premium
PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core prosessor 6000+ (2 CPU'S), ~3.0 GHz
MEMORY:3582Gb (4Gb installed)
DirectX version: DirectX 10

Graphics: Nvidia 8800GTX
Driver: 7.15.00.11.6925 (12-12-2007) <--i thought this wa the latest

You need to go to your nvidia control panel and set Antialiasing to application controled run the game once then you can set the antialiasing to what ever you had before. if it doesn't work with the setting you had before try different settings. If it was on 4X set it to2X or 8X I don't know why but it should work as it worked for me.

If Karbo's solution didn't work and you have some big codec packs or ffdshow on your pc, then run a forum search with "ffdshow". That'll give you more possible solutions. It's known that the main menu background video and ffdshow don't get along very well.

yea i remember that as u tell me this so i uninstalled thewhole codec pack and the problem is still there, still black screen

i thank u very much it first didnt solved the problem but app controled is balanced ( doest work ) i set it to the highest settings.. and there it is sh4 uboat missions is also installed :D
im running this and it working like a charm, only a few short questions,

I knew with pressing the num delete key you can get rid of the meters and stuff .
but what key to press to get rid of the arrow or the simbol of where i am or do i ave to addapt an cfg file
its so long ago when i played it i cant remember this..

and another question, are the mods for sh4 1.4 still working under uboat mission (1.5 ) or are there new mods for 1.5?
is this also for all the reskins?

thnks for all the help so far guys :)

The graphic drivers are probably the issue. I too use Nvidia and have had constant BSOD with nvlddddd something or another. It seems that if i had postprocc checked it would crash, so I unchecked it.
I use to get the black screen with the 174 drivers, so I reverted back to 169 version.
I'd say that the drivers are so buggy that if your not setup just so it will crash, play with them till the game stops crashing.

This is with a EVGA8800GTX on Vista64