Author Topic: AH crashes on launch (Read 711 times)

CavemanJ · « **on:** December 06, 2004, 03:29:05 PM »

Suddenly AH is crashing on launch. Maintence guy came in to replace to the gargabe disposal, and to save the machines from a surge with him flipping breakers to find the right one I shut'em down. Now whenever I run AH I get the video config box every time I try to run it, pick my settings, click ok, and after about 30seconds of nothing I get a Program Error dialog box that says aceshigh.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows, restart the application. Tried nuking the settings folder and even installing again the 2013 full version, but I'm still crashing. Even rebooted the machine a couple times.

Only thing I've done differently today than any day the past week was to shut the machine down.

the drwtsn32.log says this:

Application exception occurred:
App: (pid=280)
When: 12/6/2004 @ 16:22:24.390
Exception number: c0000005 (access violation)

*----> System Information <----*
Computer Name:
User Name:
Number of Processors: 1
Processor Type: x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1
Windows 2000 Version: 5.0
Current Build: 2195
Service Pack: 3
Current Type: Uniprocessor Free
Registered Organization:
Registered Owner: CJ

*----> Task List <----*
0 Idle.exe
8 System.exe
144 smss.exe
168 csrss.exe
188 winlogon.exe
216 services.exe
228 lsass.exe
416 svchost.exe
444 spoolsv.exe
476 svchost.exe
504 mcvsrte.exe
532 nvsvc32.exe
596 regsvc.exe
660 MSTask.exe
688 tcpsvcs.exe
712 snmp.exe
764 WinMgmt.exe
856 mcshield.exe
1068 Explorer.exe
1104 point32.exe
1120 type32.exe
612 realsched.exe
1196 mcvsshld.exe
1244 mcagent.exe
1276 mcvsescn.exe
788 hpztsb06.exe
1260 TBPanel.exe
1320 RUNDLL32.exe
1360 PCAlert4.exe
280 aceshigh.exe
1340 drwtsn32.exe
0 _Total.exe

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State Dump for Thread Id 0x124

eax=00000000 ebx=00400000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=000c014a edi=0012f928
eip=0049a287 esp=0012eb50 ebp=00000000 iopl=0 nv up ei ng nz na po nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0038 gs=0000 efl=00000286

function:
0049a26a 3be9 cmp ebp,ecx
0049a26c 0f8c5afeffff jl 0049a0cc
0049a272 5f pop edi
0049a273 5b pop ebx
0049a274 a1c4a4e500 mov eax,[00e5a4c4] ds:00e5a4c4=00000000
0049a279 8b0d9ca3e500 mov ecx,[00e5a39c] ds:00e5a39c=00000000
0049a27f 5e pop esi
0049a280 5d pop ebp
0049a281 8d1480 lea edx,[eax+eax*4] ds:00000000=????????
0049a284 8d0450 lea eax,[eax+edx*2] ds:00000000=????????
FAULT ->0049a287 8b4c810c mov ecx,[ecx+eax*4+0xc] ds:00a9d5d3=00000000
0049a28b 85c9 test ecx,ecx
0049a28d 741d jz 004a8aac
0049a28f e8dc3e0000 call 0049e170
0049a294 85c0 test eax,eax
0049a296 7e14 jle 004a2dac
0049a298 8b0dc4a4e500 mov ecx,[00e5a4c4] ds:00e5a4c4=00000000
0049a29e 6a00 push 0x0
0049a2a0 6a00 push 0x0
0049a2a2 ba01000000 mov edx,0x1
0049a2a7 e814f9ffff call 00499bc0
0049a2ac a1a0a3e500 mov eax,[00e5a3a0] ds:00e5a3a0=00000000

*----> Stack Back Trace <----*

FramePtr ReturnAd Param#1 Param#2 Param#3 Param#4 Function Name
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 !

*----> Raw Stack Dump <----*
0012eb50 90 cd b4 41 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 28 f9 12 00 ...A........(...
0012eb60 4a 01 0c 00 00 00 40 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 J.....@.........
0012eb70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0012eb80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0012eb90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0012eba0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0012ebb0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0012ebc0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 57 7d f8 77 18 00 00 00 ........W}.w....
0012ebd0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 fc eb 12 00 ................
0012ebe0 28 00 09 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 (...............
0012ebf0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 24 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 ........$.......
0012ec00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 02 00 00 00 61 95 f8 77 ............a..w
0012ec10 13 34 f8 77 70 01 fd 77 - 99 7a f8 77 7f 7a f8 77 .4.wp..w.z.w.z.w
0012ec20 08 02 00 00 1a 02 00 00 - d8 21 13 00 00 00 00 00 .........!......
0012ec30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 ................
0012ec40 13 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0012ec50 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0012ec60 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 30 ed 12 00 3e 00 00 00 ........0...>...
0012ec70 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 3e 00 08 02 ............>...
0012ec80 00 00 00 00 26 00 28 00 - 00 ec fd 7f 00 00 00 00 ....&.(.........

CavemanJ · « **Reply #1 on:** December 06, 2004, 03:52:21 PM »

Ok, now I'm scratching my head. Disgusted with the problem, I completely shut the computer down and walked away from it. Came back, fired the machine up again, and now AH runs with no problems.

Now I'm wondering if I might have a hardware problem somewhere since complete shut down/power off seems to have cleared the problem, but reboots didn't.

plank · « **Reply #2 on:** December 06, 2004, 03:58:20 PM »

Could have been something remaining resident in your memory that only a cold restart would clear up. Memory leak in another application maybe?

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 06, 2004, 04:42:03 PM »

According to your task list, aceshigh.exe was running. If Windows had already shut it down and it still shows in your active tasks, something was making the launcher hang.

CavemanJ · « **Reply #4 on:** December 18, 2004, 11:57:57 AM »

Ok, this has reared its head again. Been about a week since I've restarted the machine, no problems at all with AH all week. Outta the blue here it is again. So far this morning I've rebooted/shut down/restarted 6-7 times and every time it starts up same crash on launch for AH.

Started doing it last night, couple of reboots sorted it and got into AH for a bit. But this morning she's a no go. Only thing that's changed in the system is I installed sp4 for win2k pro this morning (after trying to play and crashing).

I'm starting to wonder if it's about time to just wipe C: and reinstall everything

scooby · « **Reply #5 on:** January 09, 2005, 06:22:43 PM »

not to bring up a semi-old topic but i've been out of AH for a while now and just today decided i'd come back and see how far its come...i had uninstalled AH completely from my system many months ago, and today installed the 2016 version and nothing else..
When i went to launch it i got the video settings screen, and i left it at default jus to see if it would run, and a few seconds after i click ok it just crashes back to the desktop...

Is there a way to fix this or an idea of what it could be?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #6 on:** January 09, 2005, 07:00:07 PM »

Normally it would mean you need to update your video card driver, but it all depends on what video card you have, as well as other aspects of your system (i.e. operating system, ramount of system memory...).

scooby · « **Reply #7 on:** January 09, 2005, 07:02:52 PM »

well heres the rundown:
AMD athalon 1.4GHZ
512MB ram
128MB ATI radeon 9200 with latest drivers
Windows XP Pro...

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 09, 2005, 07:06:02 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by CavemanJ
Ok, this has reared its head again. Been about a week since I've restarted the machine, no problems at all with AH all week. Outta the blue here it is again. So far this morning I've rebooted/shut down/restarted 6-7 times and every time it starts up same crash on launch for AH.

Started doing it last night, couple of reboots sorted it and got into AH for a bit. But this morning she's a no go. Only thing that's changed in the system is I installed sp4 for win2k pro this morning (after trying to play and crashing).

I'm starting to wonder if it's about time to just wipe C: and reinstall everything

One thing I noticed in your task list is the RealPlayer Task scheduler. Disable it. It checks for updates every so often, and it eats up processor resources (and network resources) while it's running. Might want to make sure your McAfee isnt interfering with or slowing down the packet transfers also.