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Originally Posted by Pisces
3: This is your problem, my bet. SH3 is built with resolution 1024x768 in mind. The stock version doesn't handle modern higher resolutions. Especially in combination with Win7, and/or widescreen resolutions, the game blocks on this. It cannot set the propper resolution and crashes or hangs. A solution to this is manually set your desktop resolution to 1024x768 temporarily. See if your videocard settings allow you to set a lower resolution for the game and automatically scale up the image (while maintaining 4:3 aspect ratio). My Nvidia 9600M GT allow this. (NVidia Control Panel/Display/Adjust Desktop Size and Position)
[Edit:] I see you have an ATI device. Sorry, don't know how to set this on them.
There are or is a widescreen/hires fix for SH3. I don't know exactly what the name is, or can provide a link. But FK usually comes with these answers so she should know more.  But I'm sure a search on it would make you succesfull also. It's probably in the download section somewhere. |
I've never played SH3 with anything but an ATI card - never had the game freeze up and go to black on loadup, on XP or Win7. Never had to temporarily change my desktop resolution either just to get it to start properly, altho I did a whole lot of tweaking in that area when I was using the Res Fix... that was mostly so it would not rescale to WS format and stretch out the 2D graphics, and also in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to resolve the screenshot/CTD issue with the mod. Which I only encountered in Win7, but not in XP.
But yes the Res Fix is available here in Subsim Downloads if you search for it. AFAIK the issue with it causing CTD when screenshots are taken has never been resolved, but your mileage may vary... not everyone seems to have a problem with it.