Devil May Cry 3 and Chaos Legion not starting up

[Etheriel]

Hello everyone

I'll try to provide the best description of a problem, because it's quite annoying..

I wanted to play some hack'n'slash so I took my DMC3, installed it - no problems here. I plugged my gamepad and ran the game. It switched to 640x480, black screen, then it turns back to my desktop resolution and game shuts [so basically I can't even reach the menu]. I got a window that DEP closed the game for sake of security. Well, I added an exception and tried again, same thing. Then I tried Chaos Legion. It's the same but instead of black screen there's white screen. And I can see the cursor for about 2 seconds. Then game closes itself. I have tried fiddling with driver settings, updating drivers and updating DirectX.
All other games are just fine.
Now my specs:
Intel C2D E4400
Gigabyte P35-DS3L
2x1GB DDR2-800
Radeon 2600 Pro
1 ATA and 1 SATA WD drives
Creative X-Fi
Windows 2003 w/ latest drivers

Any ideas?
Cheers

[Ethan_Hunt]

Did you try patching DMC 3 to the latest one?

[Etheriel]

Yes, I tried patching.

Anyway, I don't have any "data" folders inside my DMC3 dir. Well, only data2 [from patch]. But whole dir is not even 50MB... Is that normal for "minimal" installation?

[Ethan_Hunt]

Seems very unusual.If the total size is only 50 Megs then it's definitely not the complete.I don't own the PC version so won't be able to comment much.I completed this for the PS2.Better ask Bassam I think he has the PC version & perhaps you can compare the directory sizes to make sure everything is in place or not.

[Zangetsu]

Originally Posted by allwyndlima

Seems very unusual.If the total size is only 50 Megs then it's definitely not the complete.I don't own the PC version so won't be able to comment much.I completed this for the PS2.Better ask Bassam I think he has the PC version & perhaps you can compare the directory sizes to make sure everything is in place or not.

I also have DMC3 for PC but dat is a ripped one the only problems is i dont know the
controls which sucks a lot...

I also have CL & it works fine..u shud get the latest patch & the original .exe file of the game.

[skippednote]

Seems very unusual.If the total size is only 50 Megs then it's definitely not the complete.I don't own the PC version so won't be able to comment much.I completed this for the PS2.Better ask Bassam I think he has the PC version & perhaps you can compare the directory sizes to make sure everything is in place or not.

The correct size of DMC 3 (specia Edition) is 1.5 gigs
Please mention the operating system you are using as well.

[Ethan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by KaranTh85

I also have DMC3 for PC but dat is a ripped one the only problems is i dont know the
controls which sucks a lot...

HEHE! Tell me about it.Now I feel glad that I got the PS2 version after all.Capcom was really bad at porting in those days.

[Zangetsu]

Originally Posted by bassam904

The correct size of DMC 3 (specia Edition) is 1.5 gigs
Please mention the operating system you are using as well.

Hey Bassam coud u pls post the default control keys for DMC3 (if u have)

[skippednote]

Originally Posted by allwyndlima

HEHE! Tell me about it.Now I feel glad that I got the PS2 version after all.Capcom was really bad at porting in those days.

He can download the multi fix v1.3 from gamecopyworld.com which has a software that helps to reconfigure your gamepad and it works like a breeze

[Ethan_Hunt]

Oh great.Have you started playing the game yet or not? Come on already.

[skippednote]

Originally Posted by KaranTh85

Hey Bassam coud u pls post the default control keys for DMC3 (if u have)

man had you posted it earlier as i have vista now so i don't play the game any more.
But i will post it tommorow or late today...
man

[Etheriel]

Originally Posted by KaranTh85

I also have DMC3 for PC but dat is a ripped one the only problems is i dont know the
controls which sucks a lot...

I also have CL & it works fine..u shud get the latest patch & the original .exe file of the game.

So there's a patch for CL aswell? Duh. Well, will try that one.
I'm using original exes anyway..

Originally Posted by bassam904

The correct size of DMC 3 (specia Edition) is 1.5 gigs
Please mention the operating system you are using as well.

Well, good to know that installer is messing something up then. And I'm using Windows 2003 Enterprise Server [quite unusual, I know].

[skippednote]

Originally Posted by Etheriel

So there's a patch for CL aswell? Duh. Well, will try that one.
I'm using original exes anyway..


Well, good to know that installer is messing something up then. And I'm using Windows 2003 Enterprise Server [quite unusual, I know].

Your operating system might be a problem as the game works perfectly for windows Xp but in vista the game get whiteish all around....
Try to play the game on a Xp computer so as to verify that the game is ok. And as far as your configuration is conserned it's more than enough to play the game at highest settings....!