Crash when trying to start an new game

jelmew · Post by **jelmew** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:21 am

I bought this game yesterday, and i can't get it to play. Whenever i press new game, the loading screen appears for a few seconds and the game crashes to the desktop. I have the game patched to 1.2
My specs:
P4 3 gig
1024 MB ram
6200 se/tc with 256 mb of video ram

Does anyone have an solution, cause i can't return the game to the shop.
By the way, this is what the crash log says
* * * Vampire Crash Data Log, Generated From Exe Built On: Oct 6 2004 * * *

vampire caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
in module engine.dll at 001b:200f5967.

Read from location 00000000 caused an access violation.

Context:
EDI: 0x00000008 ESI: 0x1067fafc EAX: 0x03599c00
EBX: 0xffffffff ECX: 0x00000000 EDX: 0x00000073
EIP: 0x200f5967 EBP: 0x20d5e078 SegCs: 0x0000001b
EFlags: 0x00210206 ESP: 0x0012e6b8 SegSs: 0x00000023

Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 11 a3 80 08 2b 21 a1 74 08 2b 21 83 c4 14 50

-----[ SysInfo ]-----
Error occurred at 3/4/2006 20:46:26.
2 processor(s), type 586.
63% memory in use.
1024 MBytes physical memory.
371 MBytes physical memory free.
2458 MBytes paging file.
1617 MBytes paging file free.
2048 MBytes user address space.
1535 MBytes user address space free.

-----[ StackTrace ]-----
0x73656E65 : <unknown symbol> in <unknown module>

-----[ ScopeTrace ]-----
SCOPE_TRACE data, stack depth = 3
02. RunListenServer ()
01. CEngineAPI::Run ()
00. LauncherMain ()

Acleacius · Post by **Acleacius** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:16 am

"6200 se/tc with 256 mb of video ram"

Not familar with this brand, do you know if your Video drivers are updated?
Also are your Sound and Motherboard (if VIA) drivers are updated?

See you are using dual processors, does your dual rig work with Half-Life 2?

Do you see any Logos or does it just crash strait away?

Have you tried a full reinstall, maybe give the game a try without the 1.2 patch, then again with 1.2?

jelmew · Post by **jelmew** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:31 am

Video drivers are always up to date, the same for the rest.

My pentium is an Hyperthreading, is that dualcore. It runs halflife 2 fine by the way.

When i press new game i see the loading screen for about 1-2 seconds and then it crashes to the desktop, after that i can't restart the game. And i can't delete the game like it should, cause it isn't in my softwarelist anymore..

I did notice that vampire.exe was taking more and more ram, even in main menu.

Acleacius · Post by **Acleacius** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:49 am

Tried looking up "Dual" on the offical forums in Tech Support, nothing some reason I keep thinking it is a possible conflict with Dual processors.

Did you try Safe Mode?

May as well try the reinstall without the 1.2 patch first, as a test.

jelmew · Post by **jelmew** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:12 pm

I tried safe mode.
Hyper threading means that there is one virtual processor and one real, similar to dual core? I will take an look.

edit: can't find the forum, could you give me the link?

Acleacius · Post by **Acleacius** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:21 pm

Sure here you go. Any luck with a reinstall?

"http://www.forumplanet.com/planetvampire/forum.asp?fid=9643"

jelmew · Post by **jelmew** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:36 pm

Nope, i only got more errors while reinstalling, it couldn't find some mp3 files. By the way can you give me the excact link to the excact thread, cause the search enginge seems to be down

Lucita · Post by **Lucita** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:33 pm

Have you Googled the error ? Seems you are not the only one out there with said error. I got 237 google hits with copying and pasting your error. A few examples here:

1st Forum:
Could be a RAM problem or an overclocking problem. Is your system overclocked ? GPU or CPU ?

2nd Forum:
Could be sound problem. Disable the soundcard for a check.

You should google the error and take a look for yourself....

Acleacius · Post by **Acleacius** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:52 pm

No I can not, there is no thread.
As I mentioned it was just something I was thinking and tried to do a search for dual in Tech and I got nothing, no hits, so either I am imagining it or it was somewhere else.

That is very odd you should not have more trouble, what OS (operating system) are you using, XP, SP#?

Do you hear music at the menu, where you select New Game?

yrthwyndandfyre · Post by **yrthwyndandfyre** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:05 pm

First Intel hyperthreaded CPUs are one CPU build to hardware schedule processor usage against multiple (usually two) task schedules equally so it looks like a dual CPU to the operating system, as opposed to dual-core which are one physical CPU which actually has two CPU cores built into it so that it looks and acts like a dual CPU. The Dual-Core is faster. I have a 3GHz hyperrheaded at work and a 3 GHz dual-core at home, and the dual core is definitely faster by about 30-40%.

Second, hyperthreaded or dual core doesn't matter to this game. It only runs on one hyperthread/processor. I know for a fact that it will work properly on a formal dual processor box. That isn't the problem.

At a guess, I'd say that when you installed the game, you didn't install it with administrative privileges, and then tried to play it in a different account than the one it was installed from. The easiest way to duplicate this error is to play a dialog MP3 file from Windows Media Player and then try to play the game - the error will occur when it tries to play the MP3 file that Windows Media player locked out.

Now assuming that none of this type of activity has already occurred, I'd say that the installation didn't successfully complete, and your best way out is to uninstall it and re-install it.

Acleacius · Post by **Acleacius** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:47 pm

That is kinda what I was hoping/waiting for was someone with a Dually setup to commment, thanks.

I agree it would almost have to be something with the install, if all his drivers are resonalbly updated and Half-Life 2 runs.
Especially if he is getting different errors/problems with each install, unless there is a problem with the disk or his DvD/Cd player.

yrthwyndandfyre · Post by **yrthwyndandfyre** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:31 am

[QUOTE=Acleacius]Especially if he is getting different errors/problems with each install, unless there is a problem with the disk or his DvD/Cd player.[/QUOTE]
That is a damned good theory. I've had glitches in my CD players that did a lot worse things than that. A wonky player is a very good idea. Unfortunately, the only way to prove it out is to replace the player.

jelmew · Post by **jelmew** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:07 am

Well i googled on it and i find people with the same problem, they al seem to have an dual core or an ht processor, unfortunately i didn't find any solution. Activision doesn't give much support

. They keep revering to drivers etc. By the way the installation was succesfull the first time.

jelmew · Post by **jelmew** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:13 am

http://www.forumplanet.com/planetvampir ... id=1856201
This guy has the same problem, only for him the game has worked.