Silent Hunter 4 & Windows 10

[LCQ_SH]

Hi everyone.

So I upgraded my rig, and after reading everything and tested everything I could, I concluded that my laptop doesn't want to run SH4 in any resolution but 1024x768 in windowed mode. On that resolution, it works like a charm (intel grpahics, as it doesn't like my nvidia, although it doesn't need it), but now I'm out of ideas. The big question is if there is a solution for that. (I've tried the cgf files, I already checked the net framework thing, and all good, LAA, etc.) Mostly, everything was covered and I ran out of ideas...

Some of my specs.
GTX 1660 Ti
Windows 10 10.0.18363 18363 and 16GB RAM.

Many thanks to all.

[propbeanie]

With my 'modern' Win10 laptop, I have the Windows display settings the same as the "Native" resolution of the display monitor, and have the game set the same. I do not have a dual-card set-up like you though... but anyway, matching that, and then I right-click the SH4.exe file, and choose "Properties", and then the "Compatibility" tab. Just for SnGs, I chose "Run as an administrator" (it should not be necessary), since I was there, but the thing that helped it to actually function correctly was to click on the "Change high DPI settings", and I chose "High DPI scaling Overide - Overide high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by: <Application>". That did the trick for my laptop.

[LCQ_SH]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

With my 'modern' Win10 laptop, I have the Windows display settings the same as the "Native" resolution of the display monitor, and have the game set the same. I do not have a dual-card set-up like you though... but anyway, matching that, and then I right-click the SH4.exe file, and choose "Properties", and then the "Compatibility" tab. Just for SnGs, I chose "Run as an administrator" (it should not be necessary), since I was there, but the thing that helped it to actually function correctly was to click on the "Change high DPI settings", and I chose "High DPI scaling Overide - Overide high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by: <Application>". That did the trick for my laptop.

Awesome man, fatastic! Simple as that. Hopefully, that simple trick could be posted somewhere and save a lot of time for the 'new computer windows 10' guys.

All the best!

[P|A|ntZ]

I had this issue initially after installing SH4, it would seem to be launching but then blank screen.

It turns out my Windows setting was running apps not in their native resolution. If you go into Settings > Display, there's a setting to zoom text, apps, etc. Make sure this is set at 100%. After I adjusted that, the game runs fine.

I hope this helps other Win10 users that have the same issue and are frustrated.

[Aktungbby]

P|A|ntZ!I see the infamous seven-year-itch has brought U 2 the surface after a loooong silent run!

[K9us]

Originally Posted by LCQ_SH

So I upgraded my rig, and after reading everything and tested everything I could, I concluded that my laptop doesn't want to run SH4 in any resolution but 1024x768 in windowed mode. On that resolution, it works like a charm (intel grpahics, as it doesn't like my nvidia, although it doesn't need it), but now I'm out of ideas. The big question is if there is a solution for that. (I've tried the cgf files, I already checked the net framework thing, and all good, LAA, etc.) Mostly, everything was covered and I ran out of ideas...

Originally Posted by propbeanie

With my 'modern' Win10 laptop, I have the Windows display settings the same as the "Native" resolution of the display monitor, and have the game set the same. I do not have a dual-card set-up like you though... but anyway, matching that, and then I right-click the SH4.exe file, and choose "Properties", and then the "Compatibility" tab. Just for SnGs, I chose "Run as an administrator" (it should not be necessary), since I was there, but the thing that helped it to actually function correctly was to click on the "Change high DPI settings", and I chose "High DPI scaling Overide - Overide high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by: <Application>". That did the trick for my laptop.

Had the same issue as LCQ_SH, and can more or less confirm that propbeanie's solution seem to work or at least is part of the solution. I was gonna satiate my FotRSU cravings and installed SH4+Uboat through Steam on my Win10 v2004 Build 19041. Refused to start on anything but the default 1024x768x60hz.

I naturally manually installed DirectX9 from the SH4\DirectX folder and applied the Large Address Aware.exe utility from FotRSU. I also tested various combinations of settings in the SH4.exe compatibility options, but the only one that seemed to work was the one that propbeanie mentions:

Change high DPI settings > Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by: Application.

So now I'm currently running at least the FotRSU menu screen at 2560x1440x144hz and maximum graphics, using ONLY that particular setting above. Everything else is default/unchecked. And it makes sense that I had to change that setting, because I have both bad eye sight and high DPI monitors, so I scale them to 150%, and I have the "fix scaling for apps" set in the Windows advanced scaling settings. Probably something there that messes with the DPI which makes SH4.exe not work properly.

The next step is to figure out if anything else is needed in the compatibility settings to actually run the game and not just the menu :P

[propbeanie]

I am going to have to remember where I "hide" this picture, because I just spent fifteen minutes trying to find it again... lol - oldmanitis




The "Disable fullscreen optimizations" might be what you're missing, if you hadn't clicked it. Another thing about the game, is that things would probably be easier to read at 1920x1080, set from inside the game. You could keep your 2560x1440 Windows settings, just set the game lower, since they are both 16:9 resolutions. You wouldn't need the 150% zoom then, which I am not certain the game would run at anyway...

Are these compatibility settings needed for everyone?
I'm running SH4 Gold from Ubisoft and it runs just fine at 1920x1080 @ 240Hz.
Just want to make sure if I need to do this to avoid any future problems as I havent played SH4 in ages.

[Aktungbby]

Chunky Moe!

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by Chunky Moe

Are these compatibility settings needed for everyone?
I'm running SH4 Gold from Ubisoft and it runs just fine at 1920x1080 @ 240Hz.
Just want to make sure if I need to do this to avoid any future problems as I havent played SH4 in ages.

No two computers are alike, so your mileage may vary. Some folks have to tick all of the boxes, some none...

[j13emperor]

Guys,

Need your help.
Haven't played the game for a while. I have a steam version of a game, but it just don't work. Crashes occur when trying to start new campaign, and game freezes when clicking on "Graphics Settings".
Upon entering museum I get a tab up top with ship type but the screen is black.
I tried everything that suggested here, DPI set correctly, run as admin and have properties on win7. DX9 installed as well.
I suppose, that it may have something with GPU, but cant find out, what's wrong.

P.S.
SH3 and SH5 same issue.

i9-10900K
32GB RAM
RTX 2070 SUPER
Win 10 x64