After reading through most of the comments and complaints here, I must say that I am seriously depressed.
My Acer Aspire laptop had a HD failure and I lost everything including my career in SH3. This computer was using Windows Vista 32bit.
Now I have a new computer (HP Pavilion) with Windows Vista 64bit and needless to say everything I've tried with SH3 doesn't seem to work.
The interesting thing is that SH3 wouldn't work on my older Acer either at first try. Then I installed a game called
Sniper Elite - which wouldn't work either. However,
Sniper Elite, being somehow connected to Star Force, brought me to the website which allowed to download the software I needed to make this game work on my computer. After that I figured I'd give SH3 another try and to my amazement it worked!
Now, I did the exact same thing on my new HP Pavilion -
Sniper Elite works just fine - but SH3 doesn't. I've installed SH3 and then wanted to play it and I keep a getting message that this game won't function because it requires Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000 or XP to properly run. I've tried different compatibilities and administrator functions and nothing works.
I'm seriously annoyed and enraged about this. Why don't these guys release a patch for Windows Vista 64bit? How hard can that be?
And while they're at it how about a proper patch that fixes this god damn stupid save game issue in SH3.