Help with bugs that prevent me from playing

THAbombaa · 06-22-20, 02:21 PM

Ahoy skippers,

I've only just bought SH4 after i saw some videos thanks to youtube recommendations however i am experiencing some major problems.

I have the main game and also the u-boat DLC, however when i try to play, i cannot start a campaign.

I get stuck on the "From where do you want to start" screen, nothing happens when i press Start.

Also, when i tried doing the tutorials, i found out my periscope is bugged and it keeps going up, then teleporting down. I cannot raise the thing myself for some reason too.

I'm sorry if i copied a previous thread about these things, i couldn't find anything on either of these problems.

Aktungbby · 06-22-20, 03:43 PM

HAbombaa!

KaleunMarco · 06-22-20, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by THAbombaa

Ahoy skippers,

I've only just bought SH4 after i saw some videos thanks to youtube recommendations however i am experiencing some major problems.

I have the main game and also the u-boat DLC, however when i try to play, i cannot start a campaign.

I get stuck on the "From where do you want to start" screen, nothing happens when i press Start.

Also, when i tried doing the tutorials, i found out my periscope is bugged and it keeps going up, then teleporting down. I cannot raise the thing myself for some reason too.

I'm sorry if i copied a previous thread about these things, i couldn't find anything on either of these problems.

welcome.
as a newbie, you may find THEBERBSTER's help post to be exactly what you need.
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=219029
read it carefully, starting with the Installation area.
good luck.

propbeanie · 06-22-20, 09:25 PM

Besides what KaleunMarco mentions (excellent reading), did you install the DirectX v9.0c and the Windows Media Codecs when installing the game?

THAbombaa · 06-23-20, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by propbeanie

Besides what KaleunMarco mentions (excellent reading), did you install the DirectX v9.0c and the Windows Media Codecs when installing the game?

I did not get the prompts to do so, it just installed via steam and i could enter the game just fine, apart from the two problems i'm having.
I can pilot a boat in quick missions and fire deck guns and stuff like that, but i cant use the periscope and the main campaign doesnt start off.

Are these really problems with directX and WMC? I'll try to manually download them to be safe.

Thanks!

KaleunMarco · 06-23-20, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by THAbombaa

I did not get the prompts to do so, it just installed via steam and i could enter the game just fine, apart from the two problems i'm having.
I can pilot a boat in quick missions and fire deck guns and stuff like that, but i cant use the periscope and the main campaign doesnt start off.

Are these really problems with directX and WMC? I'll try to manually download them to be safe.

Thanks!

in a word, yes.
SH4 requires Directx9.n as well as the WMC's.
failure to install them will lead to weird problems, such as what you are experiencing.

propbeanie · 06-24-20, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by THAbombaa

I did not get the prompts to do so, it just installed via steam and i could enter the game just fine, apart from the two problems i'm having.
I can pilot a boat in quick missions and fire deck guns and stuff like that, but i cant use the periscope and the main campaign doesnt start off.

Are these really problems with directX and WMC? I'll try to manually download them to be safe.

Thanks!

The newer Steam installs might not prompt you, but if you get a page about which components to install, such as Adobe Reader (a really old version) and the old Ubisoft game server, then that would have been the screen for making the choice. If you can shoot the deck gun, they you have DirectX v9 installed. Besides, the DirectX v9.0c download installer no longer functions correctly in a Windows 10 OS... "Legacy"... In the meantime, you didn't mention whether you had read what KaleunMarco pointed you to. Where did you install Steam and where is your game Library folder for Steam? The default is for them both to go into the C:\Program Files (x86)\ folder structure, which is not a good place for a DirectX v9 game. It does almost sound like you are running out of RAM to use in SH4 though. Do you have a lot running in the background of your Windows install? Have you ever heard of the 4 Gig Patch for SH4? There are several choices, two being NTCore's 4GB Patch and Large Address Aware. There is an older version (just as viable) in the SH3 Downloads section 4 Gig patch for SH3. All three files do the same thing, which is flip a couple of bits in the SH4.exe file so that Windows can see that the file can access more than 2 gig of RAM. The only pre-requisite is that you have a 64-bit version of Windows from Vista or later.

THAbombaa · 06-24-20, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by propbeanie

The newer Steam installs might not prompt you, but if you get a page about which components to install, such as Adobe Reader (a really old version) and the old Ubisoft game server, then that would have been the screen for making the choice. If you can shoot the deck gun, they you have DirectX v9 installed. Besides, the DirectX v9.0c download installer no longer functions correctly in a Windows 10 OS... "Legacy"... In the meantime, you didn't mention whether you had read what KaleunMarco pointed you to. Where did you install Steam and where is your game Library folder for Steam? The default is for them both to go into the C:\Program Files (x86)\ folder structure, which is not a good place for a DirectX v9 game. It does almost sound like you are running out of RAM to use in SH4 though. Do you have a lot running in the background of your Windows install? Have you ever heard of the 4 Gig Patch for SH4? There are several choices, two being NTCore's 4GB Patch and Large Address Aware. There is an older version (just as viable) in the SH3 Downloads section 4 Gig patch for SH3. All three files do the same thing, which is flip a couple of bits in the SH4.exe file so that Windows can see that the file can access more than 2 gig of RAM. The only pre-requisite is that you have a 64-bit version of Windows from Vista or later.

Hi, thanks for the reply.
Indid read the entire thing and also tried the different things they wrote about in that thread to no avail.
My steam is installed on my C drive SSD, however i installed SH4 in a seperate folder on my D drive HDD.

I shouldn't be running out of RAM, as i can't see this thing taking up more than the 16 gigs of RAM i have in my rig, being a pretty dated game. This is of course unless it doesn't use more than the two. I tried LAA mod, but i hadn't heard of the 4 gig mod so ill try that next.

Again thanks. I've been scraping by thanks to the steam refunds ive been asking for multiple times now after trying to fix the game. Getting pretty tired of it and losing hope, guess some things arent meant to be huh

06-22-20, 02:21 PM	#1
THAbombaa Nub Join Date: Jun 2020 Posts: 4 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Help with bugs that prevent me from playing Ahoy skippers, I've only just bought SH4 after i saw some videos thanks to youtube recommendations however i am experiencing some major problems. I have the main game and also the u-boat DLC, however when i try to play, i cannot start a campaign. I get stuck on the "From where do you want to start" screen, nothing happens when i press Start. Also, when i tried doing the tutorials, i found out my periscope is bugged and it keeps going up, then teleporting down. I cannot raise the thing myself for some reason too. I'm sorry if i copied a previous thread about these things, i couldn't find anything on either of these problems.

06-22-20, 03:43 PM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,874 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	welcome aboard! HAbombaa! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

06-22-20, 09:25 PM	#4
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 9,749 Downloads: 440 Uploads: 2	Besides what KaleunMarco mentions (excellent reading), did you install the DirectX v9.0c and the Windows Media Codecs when installing the game? __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayer/s" - Jimbuna