Shank will not play on steam (pc).

[Dirty30-Mouze]

Was all excited to replay shank with a new joystick...

Preparing to launch "shank" .. then nothing.. Have uninstalled / re-installed may times

[The Chosen One]

Try to uninstall it and then go to steam installation directory, find shank folder and delete it. It sometimes leaves some files.

[Flyk3]

I had the same problem on Windows 7 (64-bit) and was able to find a solution:

I launched the shank.exe from the Steam folder (...\Steam\SteamApps\common\Shank\bin\Shank.exe) and got the error message that is not DirectX 9 installed. In the same folder I found, appropriately, also a DirectX folder.

So I started DXSETUP.exe from this folder and installed the missing files. After a restart, I got the same error message from Shank and installed DirectX again. Now everything works!

I hope I could help you.


Here again for my German colleagues:

Ich startete die shank.exe aus dem Steam-Ordner (...\Steam\SteamApps\common\Shank\bin\Shank.exe) und bekam die Fehlermeldung, dass DirectX 9 nicht installiert sei. Im selben Ordner fand ich passenderweise auch einen DirectX-Ordner.

Also startete ich DXSETUP.exe aus diesem Ordner und installierte die fehlenden Dateien. Nach einem Neustart bekam ich die selbe Fehlermeldung von Shank und installierte DirectX erneut. Jetzt funktioniert alles!

[Darkath]

Same here. Tried both of the solution above to no avail. Can we expect at least some form of support from the devs ?

[Crazy Joe Davola]

Thx McFly! worked for me

[Bako]

McFly! That really worked, thanks a lot man!

[marcelocn]

here the game works but after playing 5 min in the story, the game freezes....
anybody knows a way to fix it?

[HonoredShadow]

I got it to work. Are you guys using a 120hz monitor? That is why the game is not starting.

The crash.log in in the shank directory was coming up with 'No valid display modes'.

To fix create a custom resolution in Nvidia or AMD driver software. Will have to look it up online how to do this. Pretty simple to do though.

You need to create a custom resolution like 1920 x 1080 but at 60hz. Then the game will work!

Nvidia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlERjmkBoHg

All you need to do is change 120 to 60 and click test

[YourNextStepDad]

yes

[HonoredShadow]

As I have stated above the fix works for 120hz monitors on Windows 10 also I have just tried it on my upstairs computer. My downstairs computer however is running through a 60hz TV via HDMI and I also have the game installed there using wireless Xbox controllers and the game works perfectly without me doing anything. Just been playing for the last 20mins.

The only thing I can think of is that I only have 1 graphics card in each machine. Even turning off 1 card may not be enough as I used to have SLI and some games would not work even with it switched off in driver. I had to either remove SLI bridge or remove a card and that solved it. Maybe this game is like that?

But for me running on 1440p displayport monitor @60hz and on 1080p TV@60hz with one card each and the game runs great on 64bit Windows 10 with latest Nvidia drivers and fully updated OS.