Apologies for my overreaction mates.
I used the following information to correct the problem:
http://forum.lastos.org/index.php?th...indows-7.1821/
scroll down to this entry:
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I edited my post a while back (got some things wrong), forgot to mention it back then.
Anyway, the registry changes are rather trivial. The same entries are added that would be added if you went disabling GameUX entries one-by-one with Compatibility Administrator. But something's wrong with Win7 compatible version of Compatibility Administrator and it puts the entries in the 32-bit part of the registry, where they're ignored.
About the stubborn cache kept somewhere by the OS that tracks compatibility related settings and may be refreshed on the per-app basis if the settings don't take effect immediately (always the case except if the application has never been run before), there's this undocumented command line parameter taken by sdbinst utility, the one that is used for installing user-created compatibility databases:
Code:
sdbinst -c
Run this from administrative Command Prompt and you don't have to do the thing on Compatibility tab for every game in question (
source - thanks to dippy dipper for pointing it out).
Attached Files:
I DL'ed the "GameUX_AppCompatFlags.7z" from this post and ran 2 files to change registry:
"GameUX_DisableShims.reg"
"No_GameUX_Service_Location.reg"
I then ran the command code:
"sdbinst -c"
as an administrator.
SH3 now starts immediately.
I have also verified that only one instance of the exe is running
and resource and memory usage looks good.
Thank you!