SH3 Wont Load

[bill clarke]

Guys as a result of an upgrade I had to reinstall the game, then the patch 1.4. played it once and it worked fine, I then installed the gramaphone mod, and the smoke mod (which I had before) now it gets to half way through and I get a message saying SH has a problem and needs to close, and this is in a microsoft message format.
What is wrong

Update: uninstalled the game and reinstalled then patched to 1.4, no mods, andj ust as I thought it would work it failed again.

System Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+
1.80GHZ
1.00GBRAM
Video Card Winfast A360 TDH G Force FX5700

[zoinks]

what did you upgrade? driver issue maybe? no problems before the upgrade?

[bill clarke]

No, no problems before, new mother board and CPU and now have Win XP prfessional.

[HW3]

Try cleaning your registry. I've found bad entries in there that fouled things up, and once cleaned out, the game worked again.

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by bill clarke

Update: uninstalled the game and reinstalled then patched to 1.4, no mods, andj ust as I thought it would work it failed again.

You probably haven´t deleted the main dir after uninstalling SH3, right? If so, uninstall it again, manually delete the main SH3 dir, then reinstall. The files that caused the trouble weren´t removed by the uninstaller...

[bill clarke]

Originally Posted by Gizzmoe

You probably haven´t deleted the main dir after uninstalling SH3, right? If so, uninstall it again, manually delete the main SH3 dir, then reinstall. The files that caused the trouble weren´t removed by the uninstaller...

How do I do that ? and noew another game, Hoyle word games that my wife plays just did the same thing, half way through the game she got a message that the game encountered a problem and needed to close. so it must be something else, maybe win XP Pro ?

[bill clarke]

Originally Posted by HW3

Try cleaning your registry. I've found bad entries in there that fouled things up, and once cleaned out, the game worked again.

I don't feel to confidant about playing about in there.

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by bill clarke

How do I do that ?

Open Windows Explorer, go to "c:\program Files\ubisoft", left-click the SH3 dir, the press the "Delete" or "Del" key. Or right-click the dir, then select "Delete".

so it must be something else, maybe win XP Pro ?

Maybe. We can check that later if SH3 still doesn´t work after the reinstallation.

[zoinks]

new mb and cpu...new mb probably requires a format and fresh install of windows. your current windows is set up for your old parts, irq, chipset drivers, etc. i myself would have done that first but i've been building for some time. you'll have all knds of problems if you load drivers for your new stuff and don't uninstall the old. good luck.

or did you do that already...not sure what you've done. do you have problems with other apps or just sh3?

[bill clarke]

Originally Posted by zoinks

do you have problems with other apps or just sh3?

Yep another game my wife loaded (hoyle word games) quit part way through, same thing got a message saying in had encountered a problem and needed to close.

[bill clarke]

Originally Posted by Gizzmoe

Open Windows Explorer, go to "c:\program Files\ubisoft", left-click the SH3 dir, the press the "Delete" or "Del" key. Or right-click the dir, then select "Delete".

Maybe. We can check that later if SH3 still doesn´t work after the reinstallation.

what about Gameshadow ? I noticed that it was not deleted, and the game tried to reinstall it, could that be the problem ?

[zoinks]

if you're having problems in other apps, it sounds like something is wrong with the set up of your new hardware. you might need the latest video drivers or something along that line. please answer these questions:
after you installed the new mb and cpu, did you then reformat your hard drive and then install windows xp pro? sp2? install chipset drivers? latest sound and video drivers?

i'm not sure how tech savvy you are especially if you not comfortable going in the registry, so i'm thinking setup problem.

go to control panel -> system -> hardware tab -> device manager
do you have any yellow ?'s or !'s any conflicts showing?

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by bill clarke

what about Gameshadow ? I noticed that it was not deleted, and the game tried to reinstall it, could that be the problem ?

That´s unlikely, SH3 doesn´t need Gameshadow. As you wrote, SH3 worked ok, then you installed some mods and it stopped working. The uninstaller doesn´t remove all files, so some of the mods were still there when you reinstalled it. That´s probably the reason why it doesn´t work anymore.

[bill clarke]

Originally Posted by zoinks

if you're having problems in other apps, it sounds like something is wrong with the set up of your new hardware. you might need the latest video drivers or something along that line. please answer these questions:
after you installed the new mb and cpu, did you then reformat your hard drive and then install windows xp pro? sp2? install chipset drivers? latest sound and video drivers?

i'm not sure how tech savvy you are especially if you not comfortable going in the registry, so i'm thinking setup problem.

go to control panel -> system -> hardware tab -> device manager
do you have any yellow ?'s or !'s any conflicts showing?

No Zoinks, none of those, the guy that installed the systems is very cluey, knows his stuff, so I am assuming he did all you said.

[zoinks]

so when the guy finished doing the work for you, sh3 and all your apps were still loaded on your system? was there any problems in the device manager?

try using other programs and see if its more a system problem than a sh3 problem. if more programs like the hoyle game don't work you might ask that guy for help again. hoyle should not crash.

btw, you are experiencing CTD - crash to desktop. the windows message you are getting is a generic microsoft message. ctd's are not so bad usually. most times its just software.