AO Crashing (any ideas to help?)

vickos · Post by **vickos** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:14 am

Found a comp i can use to play AO on during the weekends. Only problem is that i just get the msg "Anarchy crashed..." when i press the play botton.

Have tryed all kind of diffrent settings but nothing works. Anyone got any ideas how i could solve this problem?

Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Attempted read from: 00000000
GetLogicalAddress failed for 00000000

Registers:
EAX:001D7154
EBX:01936890
ECX:001D3F60
EDX:737A09E8
ESI:01936890
EDI:00000000
CS:EIP:001B:00000000
SS:ESP0012F2B0 EBP:0012F2DC
DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000
Flags:00010246
Fpu control: 0xa001f

Stack: From adr 0012F2B0
73957C37 0193694C 00000000 01936890 01936890 737619C0 FFFFFFFF 0012F2B8 0012F374 739FB32F
FFFFFFFF 0012F380 008705D8 001D3F60 0193694C 01936890 00000030 00000000 00000000 00000008
019330FC 0000001B 01936240 01936888 01820168 00000000 00000000 01936888 00000180 01936890

Call stack:
Address Frame Logical addr Module
GetLogicalAddress failed for 00000000
008705D8 0012F380 0001:0001F5D8 C:\Program Files\AO\randy31.dll
0089C248 0012F3A4 0001:0004B248 C:\Program Files\AO\randy31.dll
00BD1AEB 0012F3E8 0001:000A0AEB C:\Program Files\AO\DisplaySystem.dll
00BD165C 0012F414 0001:000A065C C:\Program Files\AO\DisplaySystem.dll
00B31A99 0012F4E8 0001:00000A99 C:\Program Files\AO\DisplaySystem.dll
00F52333 0012F9A4 0001:00001333 C:\Program Files\AO\Preferences.dll
00404A7A 0012FE70 0001:00003A7A C:\Program Files\AO\client.exe
004014E1 0012FED8 0001:000004E1 C:\Program Files\AO\client.exe
00401C0C 0012FF18 0001:00000C0C C:\Program Files\AO\client.exe
004090BF 0012FFC0 0001:000080BF C:\Program Files\AO\client.exe
7C816D4F 0012FFF0 0001:00015D4F C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
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docksider · Post by **docksider** » Fri May 12, 2006 12:13 pm

Woot.

My best guess atm is that Direct3 or your graph drivers doesnt work properly, check that out first. If you can that is.

Alphacenta · Post by **Alphacenta** » Fri May 12, 2006 5:39 pm

Go bugger Adcore or MrTickle

I'm sure one of em knows what it is...

docksider · Post by **docksider** » Fri May 12, 2006 6:00 pm

Looking at it with some food in me.
Now my best guess is that AO-client is really crappily coded and they made some routines for loading dll:s and prolly when its not found it returns the handle 0 and no failsafe when trying to call it.

Secondly isnt that an awful big amount of data in stack?

Doom_Eater · Post by **Doom_Eater** » Sat May 13, 2006 9:16 am

try to reïnstall

this looks like the client didnt make registry keys
and it could be possible that you moved the dir to nother place or renamed it
(only a guess)

//Doom

core · Post by **core** » Sat May 13, 2006 11:23 am

Three things to try first of all clear your prefs directory (after you back it up)
and see if the client works, there was a chain crashing bug not so long ago linked to that.

Second update your VGA drivers and reinstall directx 9c.

Do you encounter any other problems, playing other directx/opengl games ?

If you do, check temperature in BIOS (hardware monitoring) and see if all your coolers work correctly.
There is a subsytem in the vga drivers that shows temperature for GPU, check that out.

vickos · Post by **vickos** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:25 am

core wrote:Three things to try first of all clear your prefs directory (after you back it up)
and see if the client works, there was a chain crashing bug not so long ago linked to that.

Second update your VGA drivers and reinstall directx 9c.

Do you encounter any other problems, playing other directx/opengl games ?

If you do, check temperature in BIOS (hardware monitoring) and see if all your coolers work correctly.
There is a subsytem in the vga drivers that shows temperature for GPU, check that out.

I will try this next weekend when i get acces to the comp again, was away from friday evening until sunday afternoon so diddent have any time to look at it then.

I havent tried any other games, the comp is just used for surfing exept when im using it.

The comp dosant really have a "real" grapic card, just some crap on the motherboard i guess. But ill try friday when i get acces to it again.

Tnx for help.

core · Post by **core** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:04 pm

I really hope the motherboard vga supports directx/opengl or you wont be able to play any game but solitaire.

crittz · Post by **crittz** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:53 pm

Looks like a memory issue, try running Memtest86+

Download file and intall to a floppy, Instructions & Information you will need to run the test for atleast a few hours

this thread explains in much greater detail then I could why you see this error and what can be done about it.

vickos · Post by **vickos** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:41 pm

crittz wrote:Looks like a memory issue, try running Memtest86+

Download file and intall to a floppy, Instructions & Information you will need to run the test for atleast a few hours

this thread explains in much greater detail then I could why you see this error and what can be done about it.

It's all taken care of.

That was when i was down in australia 6 months ago.

crittz · Post by **crittz** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:49 pm

PostPosted: Mon May 15, 2006 2:04 pm

oops guess i shoulda checked the date first eh?