Game not work.

[Greenpencil]

I don't know, but my Silent Hunter 3 won't work. I clean install the game, no modifications or anything, start it up and the screen flickers pink and green. Then the computer restarts itself. (I didn't install any patches)

I think it's with my drivers not up-to-date.

Oops, sorry for not introducing myself.

More info soon, it around min-night here..

[slow_n_ez]

Hate to be the one to bring this up but mine did that a year or so ago.... the video card was over heating and finally just fried .... SH3 is graphic demanding and takes your card to its limits ....... I would susgest removing the side cover off the computer and see if your heat sink fans are full of dust ... easy to blow out with compressed air ... others have just used a vacume cleaner to suck them out ..... leave the side cover off and put a small table fan blowing air in fast to help move air faster ......... one way to know if your computer if getting way too hot is just place your hand in the back in front of the power pack exhaust fan .... if its hot .. well .................

[Greenpencil]

No, I think it's the graphic card itself. I played it on my Intel GMA 64Mb fine, but extremely laggy, and this new one might not be supported. (Nvidia 6200, I have an old PCI computer, 3.06 Ghz, 1 Gigabyte of RAM.)

[Greenpencil]

I tried to delete the intro movies, but it didn't work. I tried putting the game on my mother's computer and it worked but it's really laggy with only 512mb of RAM, can anyone help? Other games also crash halfway through loading.

[The Munster]

I would suggest you upgrade your Graphics card to at least 6800 but the higher the better.
Btw, are you from Pluto the Planet ? Have never come across anybody from there before. Is there a Shuttle service and do they have a midnight there ? Sorry for all these questions.

[NiclDoe]

Go for the Nvidia 8800 thats the best without a lag period. And yes its the graphics card. just read the box on the back where the requirements r at and you can go from there.

[andylegate]

Hrmmmmmm........

My graphics card is an old Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 with 256 MB of ram on it.

Also my computer is at 3.2 GHz, but only 512 MB of RAM!

I do have some lag, but only when there are a lot of ships near me and I'm trying to use time compression and if I'm really close to a ship when it explodes (the fire and smoke affect) but not to the point where the game is unplayable.......

Of course I'm using the latest driver, Forceware 163.71 and I keep the guts of my computer clean as possible........

Still, the 6 to 7 minute load times are making me want to upgrade my ram.

[panzer 49th]

Its the graphics card mine does it every once and a while.

[Greenpencil]

Heh, I bought this game in 2005 and it didn't work, but then I bought a videocard, 5700 FX I think, but it didn't work either, and then bought ATI Radeon 9250 but didn't work either so I bought 6200 and stuck with it.

Should I buy a new computer, or stick to this one?

Note again: I have a PCI Computer and 6200 was the BEST one they had in stores.

[andylegate]

Wait a second.....

Your graphics card. Is it Extended PCI? or AGP? or is it regular PCI?

I don't know if this game will work with regular PCI. My card is 8x AGP. And Extended PCI is a relatively new thing.

You may have to upgrade your computer mother board and graphics card. (so yes, a new computer)

[Greenpencil]

Regular Pci. =( I guess I need a Vista-crumbs computer.

[andylegate]

Regular Pci. =( I guess I need a Vista-crumbs computer.

You could always just upgrade!

A motherboard like mine is around 50 to 60 bucks. The CPU with it (Pentium 4 3.2 GHz) is around 60 to 70 bucks. And you can get the AGP graphics card for as low as 65 bucks.

So it'd cost less than a whole new computer. But then you'd either have to know what you're doing, or have a friend that does.

But, if you're going to get a whole new computer, then go big! That way it will be at least a year (maybe) before it's out of date. Ha!

[Greenpencil]

I see your point, but I have absolutely no idea how to install a motherboard or CPU. All I know is Ram and Video Card.

You mentioned AGP Card, there's only 3 PCI slots on mine?

[TarJak]

If you are going to upgrade go straight for a PCI/E compatible motherboard and graphics card. I had a similar problem with a new AGP card on an old motherboard and ended up spending about AU$1200 on the upgrade including moving to Dual core CPU, SATA HDD's, DDR3 RAM along with a nvidia 7900 graphics card. It's worth it and you don't have to go for the latest and top of the range in everything either if the budget is tight!

[Greenpencil]

Oh no, this computer crashed and I had to restore everything on it. Now my dad says I have to buy a new computer... My cousin bought a computer for CAN $1000 and it had an intel GMA card at 224MB, 2 Gigabytes of RAM and 3-something Ghz. Should I buy a similar one or ?