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Originally Posted by HF_Warbucks

~S~ Gentlemen,
I'm not really sure if this is the right place to post this message, but here goes. Your help in any way will be much appreciated.

I've just purchased the retail version of SH5, and after reading some of the bad reports about the game I get the feeling that I've been had. After waiting with anticipation for the installation to complete, I started a new campaign. The guy wakes me up and tells me that the captain wants to see me up on the bridge.

I walk to the ladder in the control room and look up. I can see the night sky through the hatch. I go up both ladders and through the hatch and then everything goes completely black. The Captain speaks but I cannot see him. In fact, I can't see anything at all outside of the boat, including all of the other stations and the external camera. If that's not bad enough, I cannot get off the bridge because I cannot find the hatch again.

Also, I cannot see anything through either of the periscopes, that is if I'm lucky enough to find my way back inside the boat.

As with all games that I play, I have my graphics completely maxed out. My computer should easily run SH5 as it is way over the system requirements for this game. It can easily handle SH3, IL2 1946, FS9 and FSX with maxed out graphics.

I posted this message on the UbiSoft SH5 forums and only one guy replied. He implied that I needed to install DirectX 9c. I had my doubts about that because I'm running Windoze 7 Ultimate 64 Bit. It appears that my version of DirectX is as recent as it gets. Willing to try anything to make the game work properly, I took his advice and installed DirectX 9c. Unfortunately, nothing has changed. I'm still stuck on the bridge in complete darkness and unable to find the hatch.

Have I purchased an expensive drink coaster to put my cans of beer on? I hope not because it will cost a small fortune to buy the entire matching set for parties.

System Specs;
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07 GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
RAM: 6 Gb Corsair triple channel
Video: 2 ATI Radeon HD 5700 series (Crossfire)
Hard Disk:
1 Terrabyte Seagate 7,200 rpm SATA2 + 150 GB Western Digital Raptor 10,000 rpm SATA2

Regards,
Captain War

HF_Warbucks greetings.

This type of failure appears to be a bug in the game. I say this because I had installed a ATI 5870 and presented the fault, then bought a Nvidia GTX580 and casually showed the same type of failure.
They say it's a bug, because the game speed time about 12 hours, the fault disappears.

It is obvious that I save the game when I installed the Ati and then opened the game with the new Nvidia, it may be that the failure was produced by ATI to be saved and so when you open the save, with Nvidia is also
This failure makes it sporadically and when you save a game, when you start the save, it appears this flaw.

Test HF_Warbucks reinstall your two video cards and when you see failure, speed up time in the game, about 12 hours and see the black screen disappears. This test should do it while inside the submarine ...


Excuse my poor English!!!