Reinstall problems, can anyone help?

Olsin · 08-21-11, 05:40 AM

Hi guys .. I've recently installed SH3 on a windows 7 system. I changed the default installation path and it installed and ran just fine.
8 patrols into my first campaign a ran across a convoy at the western approaches. The weather was terrible and the initial contact was quite close so after shadowing it for an hour and finding it's heading and speed i backed off and set up my own waypoints so that i could intercept it later on that night (contact was late morning).
I'd got well out of visual distance so decided to save the game and carry on the next day.
I know of the bug that'll sometimes mess up a reload after such a save but i've never had any problems with it. I've actually saved a game with a convoy right over top of me and theres been no problems reloading.
Anyway...yeps..the reload this time messed up. I tried a few more times to reload the saved game but it'd CTD within 20 seconds of the game loading everytime.
I went back to the career and deleted that saved game so that the current save game was while i was still in base and tried to load that. again it wouldn't have it. Same problem.
So i deleted that whole patrol and the saved games of the previous patrol back to being in base, Exited SH3 and rebooted my computer and restarted SH3.
The current save game still wouldn't load.."Damn" i thought..."i've broken something". So i decided to uninstall SH3 together with all saved games, rebooted the computer and tried to reinstall. As soon as i clicked on the "browse" button to change the default directory it CTD'd with the message that idriver.exe had failed (or something like that).
Then i uninstalled or deleted everything i had that was associated with SH3..commander, mods, etc etc and tried again...same CTD with the same message.

I'm assuming there must be some registry entries or maybe a win 7 related problem thats preventing reinstall of SH3.
I was running SH3 + GWX3 + Magui plus half a dozen other standard mods. I haven't installed any mods lately.
Does anyone have any ideas how i could try and fix the problem?

08-21-11, 05:40 AM	#1
Olsin Bosun Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Denmark Posts: 63 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	Reinstall problems, can anyone help? Hi guys .. I've recently installed SH3 on a windows 7 system. I changed the default installation path and it installed and ran just fine. 8 patrols into my first campaign a ran across a convoy at the western approaches. The weather was terrible and the initial contact was quite close so after shadowing it for an hour and finding it's heading and speed i backed off and set up my own waypoints so that i could intercept it later on that night (contact was late morning). I'd got well out of visual distance so decided to save the game and carry on the next day. I know of the bug that'll sometimes mess up a reload after such a save but i've never had any problems with it. I've actually saved a game with a convoy right over top of me and theres been no problems reloading. Anyway...yeps..the reload this time messed up. I tried a few more times to reload the saved game but it'd CTD within 20 seconds of the game loading everytime. I went back to the career and deleted that saved game so that the current save game was while i was still in base and tried to load that. again it wouldn't have it. Same problem. So i deleted that whole patrol and the saved games of the previous patrol back to being in base, Exited SH3 and rebooted my computer and restarted SH3. The current save game still wouldn't load.."Damn" i thought..."i've broken something". So i decided to uninstall SH3 together with all saved games, rebooted the computer and tried to reinstall. As soon as i clicked on the "browse" button to change the default directory it CTD'd with the message that idriver.exe had failed (or something like that). Then i uninstalled or deleted everything i had that was associated with SH3..commander, mods, etc etc and tried again...same CTD with the same message. I'm assuming there must be some registry entries or maybe a win 7 related problem thats preventing reinstall of SH3. I was running SH3 + GWX3 + Magui plus half a dozen other standard mods. I haven't installed any mods lately. Does anyone have any ideas how i could try and fix the problem? __________________ Prediction is a very hard thing to do, especially if it's about the future .. Niels Bohr.