How I got SH4 running on win 10

harlikwin · 05-07-17, 11:18 AM

Well I figured I'd post this in case anyone else is having issues.

First, this was the gamers gate version of the game.

It uses the Tages client to run the serial. However my Tages kept erroring out when I tried to run the serial.

The fix for this is simple, goto the tages website and download the newer drivers (x64 in my case)
http://www.tagesprotection.com/main....ge=minimum.htm

Restart the game and it worked. I had the intro movie. But an immediate crash. I tried the various compatibility settings, but still it just immediately crashed. I settled on the XPsp2 compatibility settings as "what it should be" I also tried the high DPI setting button, again no joy, but I left that on.

Manually edited the Main.cfg files. There are 2 of these, one located in the SH4 data/cfg directory, and another one in the documents/sh4 directory. This was based on a youtube vid I found.

What worked for me, was to turn all the video settings to "no" so full screen = no, synchrnized = no, Dynamic shadows = no, Texture resultionhigh=no.

At this point the game booted in windowed mode at crappy res... Progress.

Then while in game I changed the gfx settings to allow full screen. and changed the resolution from 1024 to 1900. Exited out of the game and restarted. Then I slowly turned up the gfx settings.

Now I'm running at pretty much full GFX.

Hope this was helpful for anyone who has had issues.

Now I just need to figure out which mods are the good ones.

05-07-17, 11:18 AM	#1
harlikwin Swabbie Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 11 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	How I got SH4 running on win 10 Well I figured I'd post this in case anyone else is having issues. First, this was the gamers gate version of the game. It uses the Tages client to run the serial. However my Tages kept erroring out when I tried to run the serial. The fix for this is simple, goto the tages website and download the newer drivers (x64 in my case) http://www.tagesprotection.com/main....ge=minimum.htm Restart the game and it worked. I had the intro movie. But an immediate crash. I tried the various compatibility settings, but still it just immediately crashed. I settled on the XPsp2 compatibility settings as "what it should be" I also tried the high DPI setting button, again no joy, but I left that on. Manually edited the Main.cfg files. There are 2 of these, one located in the SH4 data/cfg directory, and another one in the documents/sh4 directory. This was based on a youtube vid I found. What worked for me, was to turn all the video settings to "no" so full screen = no, synchrnized = no, Dynamic shadows = no, Texture resultionhigh=no. At this point the game booted in windowed mode at crappy res... Progress. Then while in game I changed the gfx settings to allow full screen. and changed the resolution from 1024 to 1900. Exited out of the game and restarted. Then I slowly turned up the gfx settings. Now I'm running at pretty much full GFX. Hope this was helpful for anyone who has had issues. Now I just need to figure out which mods are the good ones.