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AveSulla
Adept I
‎09-19-2024 02:38 PM

Serious Sam HD The Second Encounter does not start

Hi folks!

Played Serious Sam HD The Second Encounter back in the summer, thought I'd pick it up again. In the meantime I updated the driver to version 24.8.1. Today I thought I'd play the game again and it didn't work. I tried a lot to find out what was wrong, finally installed the 24.4.1 driver and it worked, the game starts right up.
Can anyone else confirm that the game does not start with the fresh driver?

The last line of the file in the LOG folder contains the Loaded "D3D9.dll", which is the last line that could have caused the program to freeze.

My specs are:

Cpu: Ryzen 9 3900x

Ram: 32gb 3200mhz

Gpu: 7900xt

 

3 Replies
FunkZ
Grandmaster
‎09-19-2024 04:02 PM

Are you using the Steam version of the game?

I don't have SSHD:2E but I do have SS3:BFE on Steam which is also DirectX 9.0c and it runs just fine on my 7900XT with 24.8.1

Ryzen R7 5700X | B550 Gaming X | 2x16GB G.Skill 3600 | Radeon RX 7900XT
Ryzen R7 5700G | B550 Gaming X | 2x8GB G.Skill 4000 | Radeon Vega 8 IGP
Ryzen R5 5600 | B550 Gaming Edge | 4x8GB G.Skill 3600 | Radeon RX 6800XT
AveSulla
Adept I
‎10-02-2024 01:44 PM

Today I tried the new 24.9.1 driver, but the result is the same. For the sake of testing, next time I'll check SS3:BFE to see if the error exists there too.

AveSulla
Adept I
3 weeks ago

The problem still exist with the 24.12.1 driver.

I tested Serious Sam 3 BFE with the 24.12.1 driver and it works fine, but Serious Sam HD The Second Encounter does still won't start.