Windows 7?

[Pablo-Polo]

Hi, I installed Silent Hunter 3, when I try to start the game, I get a message "can note initialize 3D engine" and the windows troubleshooter says that SH3 is not compatible with Win 7, I've tried the compatibility to XP sp2 and 3, starting in 640 480 nothing works.
My computer: Asus P6 T Deluxe V2, I7 920, 6 GB RAM, ATI 4890 1GB memory, Win 7 Ultimate.

I was going to get another hard drive and install win.XP think someone that works better, earlier when I had Vista as SH3 did not work there either.

Can anyone come up with some suggestions

[moscowexile]

That used to happen to me. Moving your monitor frequency up to 60Hz will sort it out. Someone on this thread or the other Windows 7 thread describes how to do it.

[TarJak]

Try this thread: http://subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=162165

You need to ensure you have your screen refresh rate set at 60Mhz which you probably need to do manually. Description in the above thread.

You might also need to drop AA settings altogether as I had to.

[brendan]

Originally Posted by moscowexile

The only event that I can identify as being symptomatic is that the game always crashes after about 20 minutes or so of play. I think that this may have something to do with the graphics because the CTD always occurs shortly after I have torpedoed a couple of large tankers, which are then blazing away furiously with copious volumes of smoke, either in the individual mission Paukenschlag or in a carreeer mission from Lorient. I do this so as to test the computer as I know I can slot a couple of tankers pretty quickly using the "turkey shoot" off the US coast 1941 or hitting a large convoy southwest of Kinsale Head, Ireland, 1941. Other than that, the game runs hunkey dorey right up to the CTD: no glitches or frame stuttering, freezes etc.

This always happens with modded GWX3. The same set up never caused any problems with XP.

However, I should like to add that since writing last, I have installed the latest version of LSH. So far, I've had no CTD.

Touch wood!

I get a similar problem, I have the no starforce pre patched sh3 with gwx3. I have win 7 premium 64 and an intel gma hd graphics card (?). Had to change resolution to 1280X 768 to get around the 3d engine thing. the game runs, i can play for a while, but at first the screen would go black like a crash, but then come back every time. eventually it crashed with an error message saying the computer shut down to pevent damage, and restarted in safe mode. I changed the monitor refresh rate to 60 hz, the graphics card was already there. since then the game still runs but will crash to desktop suddenly without any noticable cause. i have some optional gwx mods added thru jsgme, will try removing some of them but i think its something else, any ideas?

[clara2g]

Hello, I'm running SHIII+GWX3 Gold in Windows 7 64 bits.

Initially I was unable even to start the simulator, the solution for me was to copy an XP installation to Windows 7.

I thought it worked, the simulator starts and seems to work OK, I played all the Naval Academy missions, but, when I try to start the first missions of a new career or a single mission, the game crashes when the loading red bar is almost complete

Any ideas?

Thank you and sorry for my bad english

[Panser]

Originally Posted by clara2g

Hello, I'm running SHIII+GWX3 Gold in Windows 7 64 bits.

Initially I was unable even to start the simulator, the solution for me was to copy an XP installation to Windows 7.
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Any ideas?

Delete the SH3 folder in My Documents. You will lose any and all career saves but it may be a corruption in there causing an issue. Restart the game and see how it goes.



If that doesn't work...


Uninstall everything to do with the game, check to make sure the C:/Program Files/Ubisoft/Silent Hunter 3 folder (or whatever the original install path is), has gone.

Delete the SH3 folder from "My Documents"

Run something that'll clean the registry of old and broken links. Try CCleaner, it's freeware and pretty good.

Reinstall SH3, patch it to 1.4b and remove starforce following the guide available elsewhere on the site, if necessary.

When starforce is successfully removed (if you had it in the first place), run the game and see if it works now. If it does, quit and install GWX and happy hunting

[Pisces]

In addition to Panser's suggestion, when you reinstall, I suggest to not install it in the Program Files folder. Makes modding alot easier.

[clara2g]

Aaaw, thank you for your detailed aswer Panser first I tried to delete the SH3 folder in My Documents but it didn't work.

Then I tried the clean & reinstall method and the game works fine even with GWX3 Gold, but, when I added my other mods the problem returns, so it's a mod problem (weird thing because disabling all my mods before the reinstall didn't solved the problem).

Solved disabling Manos Environment Mod (MEP) which was the only mod in conflict with others.

Thanks a lot Panser!!!

Good hunting

Originally Posted by Pisces

In addition to Panser's suggestion, when you reinstall, I suggest to not install it in the Program Files folder. Makes modding alot easier.

I was doing it already, but thank you anyways Pisces

[pickinthebanjo]

When I installed my copy to windows 7 the only difference that I noticed was that I have to manually set screen resolution to SH3 defaults every time I play.

On another note, I also installed SH4, and U-boat missions to windows 7 and I noticed it works fine too. Just bought all three from steam, I was impressed at how they were just as easy to mod.

[Panser]

Originally Posted by Pisces

In addition to Panser's suggestion, when you reinstall, I suggest to not install it in the Program Files folder. Makes modding alot easier.

Good catch; that's probably the most imprtant step for people not using a Steam version

[Sgt_Raa]

i installed sh3 on a win 7 home premium 64 bit system runnin onboard nvidia graphics... aint had a prob... i think the prob is that yours is an rc copy.....
i had probs with RC... defrag killed my install lol

[BDF]

I'm having the same problem I've seen some others having. I bought a new computer which had Windows 7.

I installed the game and then downloaded the 1.4b patch (for the DVD version of the game). When I try to run the game I get the following error message: This application can be launched with a release version of Microsoft Windows 95/OSR2.1/98/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP Server 2003 only.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? I see some people have just bought a new version from Steam. As much as it chaffs me to do so... would it be best for me to just pay the $9.99 to download it from Steam? And if I download it from Steam will it be compatible with Windows 7? I'd hate to pay twice for the same game and it still not work.

[dannygjk]

on my win 7 machine, it won't allow SH3 to start. it says the game protection software is incompatible with win 7

[Cambaz]

I just build up a new system and loaded new windows 7 Professional 64 bit and can't load SH III to my new system is there any way to load and play SH III in Win. 7 64 bit ??

P.S: No starforce

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by Cambaz

I just build up a new system and loaded new windows 7 Professional 64 bit and can't load SH III to my new system is there any way to load and play SH III in Win. 7 64 bit ??

P.S: No starforce

It's just like installing the other (32bit) system you succeeded with in the other thread. Make sure you install it (SH3, Patch 1.4, GWX mod, SH3 Commander) as administrator. What exactly were your "can't load" symptoms? You already know not to install it in Program Files.