SH3 works under Vista

Continued on from viewtopic.php?f=314&t=47146 (http://www.aef-hq.com.au/aef3/forum/viewtopic.php?f=314&t=47146)

Some investigation I made led me to this info, that in a nutshell says Starforce needs to be upgraded, in order to be flagged by Vista's big steel software gate.

Go to http://http://www.star-force.com/support/drivers/ for the links contained in the text below and to DL the Starforce update.



2. Versions before 5.5:
How to update protection drivers?

With so many various hardware components and software for personal computers, the StarForce specialists improve protection drivers constantly and make them compatible with newly released programs and operating systems.

If you have problems in launching a protected application, driver update can solve the problem in some cases, as well as it can improve interaction between the protected application and drivers in programs from other vendors.

The following should be done to update drivers:

* Download the zip-archive of the SFUPDATE utility.

* Unpack the archive and save the sfdrvup.exe file to some folder on a hard disk.

* Run sfdrvup.exe.

* Follow the displayed instructions

To remove Starforce if you no longer have programs on your system:

How to remove all the protection components from the system?

To remove all protection components:

* Download the zip-archive of the SFREMOVE utility.

* Unpack the archive and save the sfdrvrem.exe file to some folder on a hard disk.

* Run sfdrvrem.exe.

* Follow the displayed instructions

Once the update is made SH3 loads up nicely.

[ColKlink]

I've spent half the day reading the SubSim forums on the subject, including subjects of what you've posted Vig. I'll still can't get it to work. when I run that program it tells me there are not files to be updated, thwen when i try and run SH3, it says the same old speal about windows xp and ealier. Toatlly frustated with this game, as every other game runs fine on Vista 64bit.

Have you disabled UAC (User account control) Klink?

[ColKlink]

Have you disabled UAC (User account control) Klink?


Yep, unistalled the lot and reinstalled, still no go. That link you have up there for starforce doesn't work for me, although I have downloaded Starforce anyway.

On teh subsim forums they even suggest downloading the game of direct2drive, unfortunately that option is only available in teh US. Same with teh bundled game suggested from Amazon.

Getting frustrated as hell with this now. I've tried all variations of installing SH3 then running, Installing everything including GWX3 then running. All to no avail.

[kolts139]

Have you tried XP mate? Always seems to work 8)

[ColKlink]

Have you tried XP mate? Always seems to work 8)


my old comp has XP, so I may just have to run it on that one. :(