Black screen on SH3 (WIN7)

Herz · 12-07-09, 04:26 AM

I've looked around and I haven't found anything relating to this as of yet. I have SH3 through Steam since I bought the SH bundle to get SH3/SH4 (originally got SH3 on Direct2Drive). It worked great on Vista, but after trying to run the game on Windows 7 I get nothing but a black screen once the box notifying game launch disappears. While this black screen is up I cannot use anything. I hear system sounds already running like music from iTunes playing but cannot stop them with my keyboard music controls. I can't ctrl-alt-delete or minimize. It's just a pure black screen and everything is rendered useless unless I personally power down the machine.

What exactly is going on here? Does anyone have this similar issue? Is it with my video card? The OS? I have heard of a screen of death plaguing Windows 7 at the moment. Could this be it? Any help would be appreciated.

One thing to note is that I also have SH4 installed and JGSME running on that, but that shouldn't effect it I assume.

12-07-09, 04:26 AM	#1
Herz Watch Join Date: May 2009 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 26 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	Black screen on SH3 - WIN7 (SOLVED) I've looked around and I haven't found anything relating to this as of yet. I have SH3 through Steam since I bought the SH bundle to get SH3/SH4 (originally got SH3 on Direct2Drive). It worked great on Vista, but after trying to run the game on Windows 7 I get nothing but a black screen once the box notifying game launch disappears. While this black screen is up I cannot use anything. I hear system sounds already running like music from iTunes playing but cannot stop them with my keyboard music controls. I can't ctrl-alt-delete or minimize. It's just a pure black screen and everything is rendered useless unless I personally power down the machine. What exactly is going on here? Does anyone have this similar issue? Is it with my video card? The OS? I have heard of a screen of death plaguing Windows 7 at the moment. Could this be it? Any help would be appreciated. One thing to note is that I also have SH4 installed and JGSME running on that, but that shouldn't effect it I assume. __________________ Last edited by Herz; 12-07-09 at 07:11 PM.