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WarriorDan has Resident Evil 3

Apr 4, 2020 @ 10:38am

Game won't start, black screen failure

Almost every single time I've tried to get this game to launch, it launches a black screen in windowed mode, then immediately crashes. I've tried everything from checking integrity of game files, to editing the configs, to even uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Nothing works.

Of the 30+ launch attempts, it only worked 3 times, and two of those times it crashed during the initial settings preferences setup process, and once I did manage to play half an hour of it before saving and quitting, but since then I've never been able to get back into it. The codec has supposedly installed on my system repeatedly, but it has made zero difference.

I'm praying Capcom issues a bugfix, because this game is a technical disaster.

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Originally posted by GorehoundABB:

A user by Dr. Doakes linked me to this file.

https://github.com/praydog/RE2-Mod-Framework/releases

Download RE3.zip
Drop dinput8.dll into your game directory

If the crashes persist, go into the games local files and edit the re3_config.ini file to run on DirectX11 instead of 12. Change only these values.

Capability=DirectX12
TargetPlatform=DirectX11
PCDXver=DirectX11

The Capability value is fixed to run at DirectX12 ever time the game is booted up so theres not need to change it.

This is the fix that ended up working for me. I was in the same position Yesterday And only found progress by diving around and asking question on this forum . The game runs somewhat more stable after the fix.

This is the fix that worked for me.

Hope this helps.

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Moltar

Apr 4, 2020 @ 10:58am

I've been getting that too, but only when i try to launch the game through the Steam Link app on my TV. it seems to play fine when launch it directly from regular old Steam client.

WarriorDan has Resident Evil 3

Apr 4, 2020 @ 11:03am

Originally posted by Moltar:
I've been getting that too, but only when i try to launch the game through the Steam Link app on my TV. it seems to play fine when launch it directly from regular old Steam client.

I'm launching just through Steam, and it always crashes.