Black screen at start up in SH3, Vista 64, same as others...
 

Hi, I'm kinda new, was here back in 06-09 but my life went nuts... I had to re-sign under new name. I'm Just getting back into gaming & SH3 is the 1st game I want to play again.


I'm having the same black screen after intro movie, then all I get is a mouse pointer & music, same as others... but I can't find the K-Lite Codec Pack or any codec!


I had XP b4 & all worked well with sh3, however I could not get game to install w/vista so I gave up a while ago. I then heard that the SH2 & SH3 combo packs have no starforce BS & works in all windows OS. So I got a copy & was happy to see that it installed into my gaming folder (not that X86 BS). It has file ver. 1.4.0.1 which I found out that means it's 1.4B???


I tried all res from 800x600 on up & no dice. I'm not sure what to do next but I've gone too far to turn away now! I want to try & continue my saved games from B4 or start over if I must. Please help!! (add "puss in boots" face here)

Thanks

BTW, under the compatibility tab, I set the game to run in XP SP2 mode & to run as admin. Under security tab in permissions for administrators, I set it to full control.

Also, how do we upload pics for our Avatars? Thanks again in advance.


GD

Welcome aboard - again!:salute:

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I personally don't have a clue besides what you allready did. But knowing your Graphics chip/card and driver version might help others.

Good idea - It's a Laptop: Dell XPS m1530 w/a Nvidia geforce 8600m gt. Driver ver. 8.17.12.8562/date 10/15/2011.

All other system req. are met or exceeded. Thanks

could you have loaded a corrupted 'save?':hmmm:

if so, reload to a previous one.

Thanks, but I'm still in the phase 1 stage of trying to get the game to work.

Soon I hope to try & get my old saved games on a carefully guarded thumb drive to load.

Wish me luck... I got a feeling I'm gonna need it.

You can do this, good luck :up:

Thanks :arrgh!:

I can't get this game to run... just to be sure that I have a shot, I'd like to know if others w/my OS - Vista 64 &/or laptop - Dell XPS m1530 w/a Nvidia geforce 8600m GT, have ever gotten this game to run??

Thanks, GD

I run SH3 in a quad-core Acer laptop pretty similar to your laptop, Win 7 64-bit. The only major difference seems to be the amount of memory in the video card. My Acer has 512 MB, your Dell seems to have 256 MB. I remember trying SH3 in my previous laptop that had 128 MB of memory for the video card. The game ran but so slowly that it was not playable. I think your system might a bit slow on the graphical side to run SH3 properly.

The technical specs in Mobygames say that 512 MB is required:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/window...r-iii/techinfo

We are talking about SH 3 unmodified, don't we?

Well, it even ran on my laptop with NVIDIA 9300 with 128 MB of graphic RAM.

Please try to install a codec pack and DirectX Version 9.29

Then let's see what happens...

The intro video is really working?

My old XP system was slower in every way then my laptop, so I don't think that's the problem, at least not w/vanilia SH3... but I'll keep this in mind. Thanks

The intro video is indeed really working. I will install those & cross my fingers.

Thanks again.

GD,

please report back whether it works or not. There are other reasons left why it won't start. We'll figure out...