Thanks, guys!
The really wierd thing is, all my other programs/sims/games run fine, four-A.
ONLY Silent Hunter III is failing to, not only load, but just plain
not start-up.
I click on the icon and
nothing happens. At all. Like it dosen't even exist. The file size looks okay. The install and registry show no oddities.
I'm running Direct-X 11 as of now, and that's the only thing that might have changed or been upgraded on the system. But, as I say, that gave no issues for anything else, (and many GPU intensive programs give better framerate with it.)
I've exhausted about 20 different forum threads in various places looking for a solution. Was primarily looking at the Starforce-issue threads, at first, but my copy does not have Starforce, and no sign of it being installed on my system from anywhere else. (I avoid it like a depth-charging destroyer.)
Silent Hunter IV runs fine, IL2 Sturmovik 1946 runs fine, so I figure it's not some odd Ubisoft issue.
-C.B.