SH3 won’t start

[OldTrawler]

Hello.
I was playing SH3 and just before exiting I decided to change the voice to German while leaving everything else in English. I changed it and then exited the game. Now when I try to start the game the start up screen with the progress bar appears, starts to load and then kicks out to the desktop. Can anyone point me to where to look to resolve this problem. I have not had any problems with the game until now.

[blackswan40]

Hi there Oldtrawler are you using the Commander mod if so fire it up click on the monkey wrench icon options on the bottom of the screen tick box roll back SH3 on exit click apply then come out of commander mod go back in and fire it up launch SH3 with commander mod then SH3 and see if its sorted.


If you dont use the Commander Mod just keep firing SH3 up it should start one of the times you fire it up then reset voice to english
before your in your Campaign playing SH3 save and come out then fire SH3 back up if all works then set voice to German options before your in your Uboat playing SH3 game save setting and all should be ok
theres certain things in SH3 thats best not to tinker with in game like changing voice or saving game while submerged or near aircraft or near land or a escort all can result in the dreaded CTD


hoping that this helps your get squared away.

[CTU_Clay]

I have to run my sh3 commander in the administrator mode

-Clay

[OldTrawler]

Thanks to CTU CLAY & BLACKSWAN40 for your suggestions. I do not use the mods you mentioned and I was aware of and avoided the pitfalls you mentioned also. I discovered that the files for my current campaigned might have been corrupted in some way. I did that by deleting the entire folder and restarting SH3. It started. I made sure everything was set to English and exited and then restarted. I started a new campaign. I made a save and exited; restarted. So far so good. Played a few minutes and made a 2nd save; exited. Tried to restart and no dice. Now the game doesn’t allow me to make a 2nd save. I’ve tried half a dozen times with a new campaign each time. I don’t now enough about the files and where they are stashed to follow up. I’ll keep looking for clues until I find the problem or just put the game to rest. Thanks for trying to help.

[blackswan40]

Hi OldTrawler is your SH3 installed in Program/Files 86 if so thats what causing the problem Windows 10 protection inside Program/Files 86 SH3 does'nt like being installed there best to install SH3 on just drive C:/or make a Games Folder on drive C:/ and install SH3 there.

or is your SH3 the old original SH3 release or steam install

[OldTrawler]

Thanks again for the suggestions. None of them are the problem as I learned from this forum when I first installed the game not to place it there. What I discovered is that the game makes two files after exiting the campaign; patrol.cfg and patrol_01.cfg in your SH3 folder under the Documents folder. When I compared them to an old campaign I notice that the patrol file was incomplete (cannot explain why). I went through the process of deleting and restarting a campaign with the same results (game not starting). The last time, I copied the contents of patrol_01 to the patrol file and - Whaalaa! - it has continued to load and I’m able to continue this campaign. I would like to resolve the issue with the files but for now I’m going to continue the campaign to see if will keep going. Thanks for trying to help.

[CTU_Clay]

I remember having a similar problem when I re-installed Silent Hunter III.

1. The first thing I did to correct the loading was to cleanse my computer of all traces of SH3, including the SH3 in the my "Documents" folder.

2. Create a new folder and name it My Silent Hunter III
Reboot and reinstall SH3 to this new folder on "C:/" outside of all "programs areas"

3. Run SH3 One(1) time to create a new folder named SH3 in the "Documents"

4. Reboot.

You should now be good to go

I hope this helps,
-clay