Windows 7?

[mkj189]

when I play Silent Hunter 3 going into the black when I came past the intro to the game and have it load the game is played in black and I get an error message that says a program fault in the program was not working ....?

[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