3D Engine trouble

chanbasti · 03-11-10, 06:40 PM

Hi all. I recently bought SH3 cause i hate SH4 and the SH5 DRM is stupid. anyway...i got it all installed and installed Commander and GWX 3 Gold, then when i went to launch the program for the first time this little error message pops up: Cannot initialize 3D Engine.
Any solutions to this would be much appreciated.

-Sebu

03-11-10, 07:25 PM

Did you try to lauch SH3 before you added anything?

frau kaleun · 03-11-10, 08:20 PM

You have to open SH3 at least once without going through Commander in order for Commander to work. Not sure why but I think the game has to create files the first time you load it that Commander needs to access when you run it for the first time.

Anyway I always forget that after a fresh install. I don't think you have to load a mission or start a career, just open the game and let it load one time and then exit. Then open Commander.

03-11-10, 08:30 PM

If you don't start SH3 at least once,
you have no SH3 folder in your Documents folder.
SH3 Commander looks for that folder doesn't it?

chanbasti · 03-11-10, 09:15 PM

nah i got it to work now. had to set my monitor refresh rate 60Hz

TarJak · 03-11-10, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chanbasti

Hi all. I recently bought SH3 cause i hate SH4 and the SH5 DRM is stupid. anyway...i got it all installed and installed Commander and GWX 3 Gold, then when i went to launch the program for the first time this little error message pops up: Cannot initialize 3D Engine.
Any solutions to this would be much appreciated.

-Sebu

Are you by any chance running Win7? If so then that's the problem I had. I tracked it down to being a problem with the screen refresh rate. For some reason Win7 interprets what WinXP says is 60Mhz as 59Mhz. To fix it you have to set up a custom screen res with a screen refresh rate of 60.001Mhz You can do this with nVidia control panel.

You may also need to make sure that you let the application control the AA as until I did that, whilst I could get the game to run, all I saw was a black screen with the menu music playing in the background.

Check this thread out for other possibilities: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=162165

EDIT: good to see you got it to work.

03-11-10, 06:40 PM	#1
chanbasti A-ganger Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: US eastern seaboard Posts: 75 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	3D Engine trouble Hi all. I recently bought SH3 cause i hate SH4 and the SH5 DRM is stupid. anyway...i got it all installed and installed Commander and GWX 3 Gold, then when i went to launch the program for the first time this little error message pops up: Cannot initialize 3D Engine. Any solutions to this would be much appreciated. -Sebu

03-11-10, 07:25 PM	#2
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Did you try to lauch SH3 before you added anything?

03-11-10, 08:20 PM	#3
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	You have to open SH3 at least once without going through Commander in order for Commander to work. Not sure why but I think the game has to create files the first time you load it that Commander needs to access when you run it for the first time. Anyway I always forget that after a fresh install. I don't think you have to load a mission or start a career, just open the game and let it load one time and then exit. Then open Commander.

03-11-10, 08:30 PM	#4
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	If you don't start SH3 at least once, you have no SH3 folder in your Documents folder. SH3 Commander looks for that folder doesn't it?

03-11-10, 09:15 PM	#5
chanbasti A-ganger Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: US eastern seaboard Posts: 75 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	nah i got it to work now. had to set my monitor refresh rate 60Hz