Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Rate This Thread
Hop To
#3096149 - 09/18/10 01:29 AM Screen goes black when Silent Hunter III starts  
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 2,631
Hackl Offline
Senior Member
Hackl  Offline
Senior Member

Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 2,631
Kelowna, BC,Canada
As soon as the intro movie is over the screen goes black. This is a new downloaded game I had huge problems with Starforce and Windows 7 with my disk of Silent Hunter III. Now this! What's wrong now? System is windows 7. Also where do you activate this? I haven't come across that screen yet. Thanks.

Inline advert (2nd and 3rd post)

#3096292 - 09/18/10 08:21 AM Re: Screen goes black when Silent Hunter III starts [Re: Hackl]  
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 2,631
Hackl Offline
Senior Member
Hackl  Offline
Senior Member

Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 2,631
Kelowna, BC,Canada
I read I have to patch this with 1.4 not the DVD one !! I tried that but I get an error that says the game is an unknown version???? The thing I find most confusing is where do I put the activation key in. The key they give you in the mail. Or do you even need to put that in?

#3098182 - 09/21/10 10:24 AM Re: Screen goes black when Silent Hunter III starts [Re: Hackl]  
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 1,921
kilosierra Offline
Member
kilosierra  Offline
Member

Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 1,921
The very north of Germany
hm, haven`t installed SH3 for ages, do a search for the GWX mod, IIRC they had a great tutorial about the patching sequence.

GWX 3 is a very good mod btw. makes the game it should have been out of SH3.

As for the screen going black after the intro is IIRC caused by a missing or old video codec. Unfortunatly I don`t remember which package it was.

Maybe a search on subsim.com will help.


i7 6700k @ 4,5 GHz
GTX1070
Asus Z170 Pro Gamer
16 GB RAM
500 GB Crucial CT500MX200 SSD
Toshiba DT01ACA300 HDD
Samsung SyncMaster BX2450 LED
W10 64
#3102488 - 09/27/10 08:48 PM Re: Screen goes black when Silent Hunter III starts [Re: Hackl]  
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 138
Bastido Offline
Member
Bastido  Offline
Member

Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 138
Did you install Directx9.0c to Win7? You need to do that for compatibility with some older games on Win7. Did you set the exe to run as admin and maybe also disable desktop composition and themes? You didn't need to buy the game again because there is a crack to remove Starforce from SHIII.

#3104184 - 09/30/10 04:43 AM Re: Screen goes black when Silent Hunter III starts [Re: Hackl]  
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 2,631
Hackl Offline
Senior Member
Hackl  Offline
Senior Member

Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 2,631
Kelowna, BC,Canada
I gave up and reinstalled XP I have another little problem with it though ...I posted it also

#3140871 - 11/19/10 11:48 PM Re: Screen goes black when Silent Hunter III starts [Re: Hackl]  
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 8,556
Li'lJugs Offline
Hotshot
Li'lJugs  Offline
Hotshot

Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 8,556
St. Cloud MN USA
Not sure if this will help, but with SHIII, the Steam version, I have to go into the Nvidia control panel, and make sure I have "Let game decide" button checked.


Hi, I'm Larry and this my brother Dayrle, and this is my other brother Dayrle.

Moderated by  RacerGT 

Quick Search
Recent Articles
Support SimHQ

If you shop on Amazon use this Amazon link to support SimHQ
.
Social


Recent Topics
CD WOFF
by Britisheh. 03/28/24 08:05 PM
Carnival Cruise Ship Fire....... Again
by F4UDash4. 03/26/24 05:58 PM
Baltimore Bridge Collapse
by F4UDash4. 03/26/24 05:51 PM
The Oldest WWII Veterans
by F4UDash4. 03/24/24 09:21 PM
They got fired after this.
by Wigean. 03/20/24 08:19 PM
Grown ups joke time
by NoFlyBoy. 03/18/24 10:34 PM
Anyone Heard from Nimits?
by F4UDash4. 03/18/24 10:01 PM
RIP Gemini/Apollo astronaut Tom Stafford
by semmern. 03/18/24 02:14 PM
Copyright 1997-2016, SimHQ Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.6.0