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06-22-17, 06:01 PM | #1 |
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Black screen after intro movie?
Just picked up Silent Hunter 4 from Steam. Monitor goes black after the intro movie. I can hear the game music. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Much appreciated. IDSW
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06-22-17, 07:51 PM | #2 |
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Did you let the DirectX9c with the game install? It will not overwrite anything (Windows won't let it), but it will "add" a couple of missing files that the game needs to function correctly...
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06-23-17, 04:40 AM | #3 |
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06-23-17, 09:41 AM | #4 | |
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06-23-17, 10:23 AM | #5 |
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Hi IDSW
Check out also that your screen resolution matches the in game graphics option. Your GPU settings also need to be checked out as well. Post #239 Changing The Nvidia GPU Settings Post #240 Changing AMD Radeon GPU Settings Later AMD GPU's will be different but the principle objective is the same. If none of these actions work, have you recently had a Windows 10 update? Peter
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06-27-17, 09:01 PM | #6 |
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Were you able to resolve the issue? I'm having the same trouble as well and nothing seems to be working. I just reinstalled DX9.0 from the resource in the game's folder and the one linked in a post here. Also changed the options in my control panel.
My SH5 game does the same thing now too after it crashed earlier today which prompted me to try SH4. I was playing a campaign and it crashed and won't display anything after the intro movies for some reason. It opens up, plays the intro movie and then black screen with music. A bit frustrating.. I kinda sorta hate Ubisoft right now. This is after my previous campaign would not update when sinking ships off the British coast / spending hours sinking the capital ships by Scapa Flow.. *pulls hair out* |
06-27-17, 10:28 PM | #7 |
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What OS do you have Sintrix, and where is SH4 installed (5 too, for that matter).
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06-27-17, 11:40 PM | #8 |
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welcome aboard firsttime poster!
Sintrix!
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06-28-17, 12:50 AM | #9 |
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Apparently on my end it was an issue with needing to reinstall my video card drivers of all things.. I guess I've heard of weirder things! SH4 and 5 now work though. So bizarre.
I'm running Windows 10 though and both game folders are in my Steam folder. Something like D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Silent Hunter 5, I believe off the top of my head. Aktungbby: |
06-28-17, 08:49 AM | #11 |
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When that happens to me I have to go to my documents folder and change the main.cfg to turn v-sync on and that fixes it. "Synchronized=Yes"
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06-28-17, 04:00 PM | #12 |
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THEBERBSTER: Thanks for the warm welcome and all of the resources. Long time lurker and reader but first time poster here!
I was kidding about the Ubisoft hate, it was just temporary anger purposefully over dramatized over the state of things. I realize my tone and mood don't translate well through text >.<. I am a bit upset that they haven't released a SH6 by now though! It actually seems that putting compatibility mode on for Windows 7 is doing the trick getting the game to properly display instead of it being the video card driver update I initially thought it was, but now my game crashes rather frequently and I'm not sure if that's a corrupt game save, corrupt files, or what. Just now it immediately crashed when I tried to open the map and I recall that triggering a crash last night as well. If nothing seems to work I'll have to try using that XP virtualization! james_nix: I'll try that. Thank you! Everyone: I'm mainly talking about SH5 now and I don't want to hijack and derail this thread any further so I'll be sure to make a post over on that proper forum if I continue to have issues! |
06-28-17, 05:24 PM | #13 |
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The Steam SH5 has some "special" issues. I have it also, and it can be a bother to get going properly. You ~have~ to follow THEBERBSTERS' link in his signature, and do the update as described. There is an updated post for that also... Good luck in your endeavors, Oberleutnant zur See
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09-16-17, 04:13 PM | #14 |
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Had same issue and just got mine working. Go into your Main.cfg files in both the Documents>SH4 and your install directory and change these values to your default desktop graphic card values. In my example:
[VIDEO] Resolution=2560,1440,144,22 DynamicShadows=Yes FullScreen=Yes Synchronized=Yes TextureResolutionHigh=Yes My resolution was set to 2560x1440, with 144Hz refresh rate. I don't know what the 22 is. |
09-16-17, 05:17 PM | #15 |
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Hi mrf
While the resolution can be changed to suit your resolution the 22 always remains constant regardless. Peter
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