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[saunder]

After my initial issues with getting Black Shark to work and being informed to downgrade my Ati driver to 8.12 yes it worked and fantastic simulator, but after having to reinstall the latest drivers to test out an issue with another game and down grade back to 8.12 I cannot get Black Shark to start up again even with vers 8.12 I have uninstalled and reinstalled Black Shark but still no go.I just get the message below. Any help would be appreciated..

 

Thank you

 

 

 

[saunder]

This is starting to get frustrating now, I have had no response to this thread and have tried to reinstall Black Shark into a clean windows 32 installation with 8.12 ATI drivers and still no go, I just keep getting the message as above.

[Kuky]

I wouldn't have a clue. If you reinstalled Windows and reinstalled exact same driver and software as before that worked, I have no idea what it wouldn't work again after reinstalling.

[Panzertard]

You might want to provide a bit more details about your computer, not sure if everyone knows what you are running (cpu / mem / os etc).

 

Not that I know much about ATI general issues, but I do know there has been some issues regarding driver problems, and the need to clean out and reinstall the drivers.

This is normally a "last resort". Read more about such here over at AMD/ATI

 

As well as just getting rid of anamolies, do a diskcheck (no surface scans, but a normal automaticly fix problems). Sometimes you can have minor errors in the index/filetables, and it may cause all sorts of odd problems.

 

If you want to do the diskcheck via command prompt: CHKDSK c: /f

Or if you have your games at the D: drive:, check that one as well as the system disk: CHKDSK d: /f

 

EDIT: If you're Overclocking, return to default speeds - O/C might cause such issues too.

Edited May 14, 2009 by Panzertard

[159th_Viper]

I assume that you have tried the 'Disable Catalyst A.I.' fix?

[saunder]

I have had Black Shark working with 8.12 drivers but unfortunately had to switch to 9.4 to try and resolve another issue with other software, unfortunately switching back to 8.12 and using driver sweeper it started coming up with the above error message so I have reinstalled Vista 32 on another hard drive and intalled 8.12 only to find I still get the same problem. I have catalyst AI switched off.

Thank you

Q9400 2.66GHz, 2666 Mhz

Asus P5Q PRO Motherboard

4GB Corsair memory

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 8.12 drivers

Vista 32 and Vist64

[S D]

Have you tried using a driver cleaner, to make sure you have all the old ATI drivers off your system?

 

Failing that it might be time to think about moving off Vista my friend.

 

I have a HD 4870 X2 aswell, i run Win7 64 RC1 with the latest ATI Win7 drivers. Everything works perfectly.

[EtherealN]

Saunder, do you have any error report files?

[saunder]

where would I find them?

[EtherealN]

See if you can find something akin to "error.log" or "errors.log" in C:\Games\BlackShark\Temp (or equivalent location, depending on where you have DCS installed).

[saunder]

I cannot find any error log but this is what vista is telling me in the, launcher.exe has stopped working window

 

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: Launcher.exe_unknown

Application Version: 0.0.0.0

Application Timestamp: 4933f34b

Fault Module Name: StackHash_d34b

Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0

Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 00000000

OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3

Locale ID: 2057

Additional Information 1: d34b

Additional Information 2: 20752c25712bf3f7bc825928e900516d

Additional Information 3: b114

Additional Information 4: 335c18d69b2fa63eb64e5240b3a2f023

[Chazz_BMF]

Did you try to disable catalyst AI? I had a similar error once and it helped for me. Im now running with the latest driver with no problem

[saunder]

yes I have AI disabled. I can get into the multiplayer menu.

Edited May 14, 2009 by saunder

[Chazz_BMF]

Hmm u really have to be sure you deinstall all drivers/catalyst before updating/ installing.....I know i had the same problem, but i cant remember what i did to make it work. :doh:

[saunder]

The thing is with this is that it's not only not working on my setup, but I set up a new install of vista on a clean hard drive and that meant a complete new install of 8.12 drivers and I re-downloaded black shark to make sure it was not a corrupt install file. but still the same problem.

[saunder]

Well I sorted my problems installed Windows 7 this morning and now black shark is running on 9.5 drivers with no issues and running with AI enabled, other than not having drivers for my HOTAS does anyone know where I can get drivers that work in windows 7 for my HOTAS?

 

Thanks

 

Saunder

[speed-of-heat]

which HOTAS do you have, but typically the Vista drivers will work

[saunder]

I have it now I used the troubleshooting compatibility vista mode and it works fine.

 

Thank you