SH5: Bugs, glitches, and issues thread

[Hinrich Schwab]

Originally Posted by Silent Steel

Some suggestions.
The following applies if you don't have an American or English keyboard. I've found this working (at least for me).

If you install an American or English keyboard layout (in Windows language settings) and then run SH5 with that layout keys work.

To toggle kbd layouts you can even set whatever hotkey(s) you like (Language settings > Advanced settings tab in Windows).
Then - to know which layout you are running you can even set it to show in the bottom right corner of the screen.

Depending on what kind of kbd you have (e.g. German/French) this can be a bit tricky as the keys you see don't all correspond to the American/English kbd layout.
(Maybe this is why I got me an American keyboard )

For screen shots - Try Ctrl + F11

Perhaps I haven't communicated my problem effectively. I am talking about the distortion as seen in this image:http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...111132101.jpg/

[TheDarkWraith]

that's different...looks like something dealing with either screen resolution or your graphic card's settings

[Hinrich Schwab]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

that's different...looks like something dealing with either screen resolution or your graphic card's settings

What's funny is SH4 does this as well while SHIII does not. SH4 runs perfectly and I have SH5 running to where any issues are no longer worth griping about. However, as everyone can see, I cannot take screenshots that come out at all.

[Silent Steel]

Originally Posted by Schwartzritter

What's funny is SH4 does this as well while SHIII does not. SH4 runs perfectly and I have SH5 running to where any issues are no longer worth griping about. However, as everyone can see, I cannot take screenshots that come out at all.

What GPU are you running?

[Hinrich Schwab]

Originally Posted by Silent Steel

What GPU are you running?

NVIDIA GeForce GTS360M with the latest release drivers.

[Silent Steel]

Originally Posted by Schwartzritter

NVIDIA GeForce GTS360M with the latest release drivers.

Are you running CCC?
If yes - disable it and check again.

[Hinrich Schwab]

Originally Posted by Silent Steel

Are you running CCC?
If yes - disable it and check again.

CCC? Are you referring to Catalyst Control Center? That's AMD/ATI. I just stated I have an NVIDIA card.

[Silent Steel]

Originally Posted by Schwartzritter

CCC? Are you referring to Catalyst Control Center? That's AMD/ATI. I just stated I have an NVIDIA card.

Sorry about that, brain overload...
Was thinking about nHancer. If so - disable and check.

If it's still not running properly try updating your driver.

Shouldn't this work try an older driver. I've had problems like this when I had an nVidia GPU and seen that sometimes older drivers work better with certain softwares.

Make sure you uninstall the driver completely.
To make sure everything really is deleted from your HD you could try to uninstall with CCleaner (http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/).
After uninstalling all nVidia entries let CCleaner scan for leftovers.
Then install the new driver.

[Hinrich Schwab]

I do not have nHancer so that cannot be the issue. Since I have the latest release driver, my only option is to roll back the drivers. Quite frankly, that is simply too much trouble just for screenshot options. Likewise, since I am seeing it with SH4, which I have had over a year, I doubt that rolling back the driver will be of much help.

[Gimmilan]

Hey everyone. Again i am running into some crashes. This time its when i want to load a game when i am already playing.

Does somebody know where it come from ?

[The Masta]

Hello

Everytime I try to start a mission, it loads and then crashes without any error message.

I'm running it on:
Win 7 64
HD5830
4Gb ram
The only thing I applied is the 4gb switch, no mods yet.

I already tried reinstalling the visual c++ and updating my GPU drivers (went from 11.12 to the 12.1 preview)

So if anyone can help me get SH5 working, I'll be grateful.

[Silent Steel]

Originally Posted by The Masta

Hello

Everytime I try to start a mission, it loads and then crashes without any error message.

I'm running it on:
Win 7 64
HD5830
4Gb ram
The only thing I applied is the 4gb switch, no mods yet.

I already tried reinstalling the visual c++ and updating my GPU drivers (went from 11.12 to the 12.1 preview)

So if anyone can help me get SH5 working, I'll be grateful.

Hi Masta and welcome to the forum

Are you updated to v1.2.0?

If not run this one;

C:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 5\Support\GameUpdater\gu.exe

This should get you updated to v1.2.0

Cheers

[The Masta]

It is 1.2.0

[Silent Steel]

Originally Posted by The Masta

It is 1.2.0

Hi again Masta,

First - check your settings in the Main Menu Options. All of them.
Try to turn down your graphics as well as sound settings.
Exit SH5 and start it up again.
Does it run correctly now?
If not your problems could be caused by a corrupt/bad install.

You could try to uninstall SH5 and re-install

1 Make a backup of the; C:\Users\Documents\SH5\data\cfg folder. Save it on your HD.
2 Delete the; C:\Users\Documents\SH5 folder. A new one will be created when you install again
3 Uninstall SH5
I can recommend you uninstall using the CCleaner
After uninstalling with CCleaner you can let it do a scan for possibly remaining files. You can download CCleaner here; http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/
IF CCleaner finds remaining SH5 files - delete them
4 Reboot
5 Re-install SH5
6 Make a copy of your saved backup of the 'C:\Users\Documents\SH5\data\cfg folder' and paste it into; the 'C:\Users\Documents\SH5\data folder
7 Reboot your PC
8 Launch SH5

Does it run now?

[The Masta]

Apparently my windows thoughht it would funny to stop working so I had to make a fresh installation and now my SH5 works.
Must've been some software problem.
Thanks for the help anyway.

Are there essential mods I need which aren't mentioned in the "Guide for Beginners" thread?