Windows 8.1 problems

Shooter7 · 08-17-14, 03:28 PM

Hi, first posting for me. I got SH4 a couple years back as a gift, and while I was able to get it to load up and kind of function on my old Dell laptop with Win7, it would crash on me or lock up or not save my game or whatever. I finally decided to get a new machine, but this one has Win 8.1 on it. I put in the disk and tell it to install, which it doesn't seem to have any problem going through the motions with that, but after it finishes the game won't start up at all. You tell it at the end of the install to finish and run SH4, but it just goes away and nothing else happens. I have found that it drops a file in my documents and there are files in the c drive it looks like. I have not been able to find an exe file anywhere, and no icon shows up on my desktop. So, I don't know if this is the right forum or not to be asking this, but I would really appreciate some assistance with being able to get my game running on this machine. I have read that others are running the game on Win 8.1, so it should be possible. I just really liked what time I could get playing it on my old Dell and would love to play it on a machine that should be able to handle it without crashing.

The new rig I have is an Asus G550JK.
Republic of Gamers
Intel Core i7 4710HQ (2.50GHz)
8GB Memory 750GB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 2GB GDDR3
1920 x 1080
Windows 8.1 64-bit

Let me know if there is more info I can give to help, but be advised, I have my limitations when it comes to tech. I have read some threads on here before I signed up and got kind of lost when people starting delving in deep with doing stuff with their files. So... thank you in advance for whatever help you can provide.

08-17-14, 03:28 PM	#1
Shooter7 Watch Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 25 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Windows 8.1 problems Hi, first posting for me. I got SH4 a couple years back as a gift, and while I was able to get it to load up and kind of function on my old Dell laptop with Win7, it would crash on me or lock up or not save my game or whatever. I finally decided to get a new machine, but this one has Win 8.1 on it. I put in the disk and tell it to install, which it doesn't seem to have any problem going through the motions with that, but after it finishes the game won't start up at all. You tell it at the end of the install to finish and run SH4, but it just goes away and nothing else happens. I have found that it drops a file in my documents and there are files in the c drive it looks like. I have not been able to find an exe file anywhere, and no icon shows up on my desktop. So, I don't know if this is the right forum or not to be asking this, but I would really appreciate some assistance with being able to get my game running on this machine. I have read that others are running the game on Win 8.1, so it should be possible. I just really liked what time I could get playing it on my old Dell and would love to play it on a machine that should be able to handle it without crashing. The new rig I have is an Asus G550JK. Republic of Gamers Intel Core i7 4710HQ (2.50GHz) 8GB Memory 750GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 2GB GDDR3 1920 x 1080 Windows 8.1 64-bit Let me know if there is more info I can give to help, but be advised, I have my limitations when it comes to tech. I have read some threads on here before I signed up and got kind of lost when people starting delving in deep with doing stuff with their files. So... thank you in advance for whatever help you can provide. Last edited by Shooter7; 08-17-14 at 03:54 PM.