Author Topic: AH minimizing on startup (Read 298 times)

Modas · « **on:** July 09, 2002, 10:38:22 PM »

Since 1.10 I'm experiencing AH minimizing to desktop for no apparent reason. It always happens when I first log on and it might be AHvoice related, but I'm not sure.

When I try to maximize the AH window, I get the following...

DDHELP caused an invalid page fault in
module NVDD32.DLL at 017f:b00ffe55.
Registers:
EAX=e0149000 CS=017f EIP=b00ffe55 EFLGS=00010216
EBX=10005000 SS=0187 ESP=0083f860 EBP=83660814
ECX=8366085c DS=0187 ESI=e0549900 FS=3757
EDX=8366073c ES=0187 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
83 7e 18 01 0f 85 b1 01 00 00 8b 4e 14 3b cf 0f
Stack dump:
83660814 8366073c 0083f910 0083f910 b011f4e4 b011f440 8366073c 0083f8b8 83660814 8374523c 83660814 baadbd73 0083f910 40000000 8366073c 10000000

when I try to restart AH, I get a different error of...
"Runtime error, c:\programfiles\htc\aceshigh\aceshigh.exe
abnormal program temination"

I used to get this when I would ALT-TAB to minimize AH, so I got smart and quit alt-tabbing. Well, now it is doing it automatically. I dumped 4 times in 4 attempts tonight and am giving up.

Do anyone have any idea what the heck is going on? System specs are below.... HELP!!

Aurelius · « **Reply #1 on:** July 10, 2002, 10:41:11 AM »

Looks like your video card may be giving you some difficulty. What type do you have?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #2 on:** July 10, 2002, 10:49:38 AM »

That error is the result of a video driver being installed without removing the old one, either done during a video driver update or a video card replacement.

Remove the video driver from your system and set the video type to VGA or SVGA and reboot.

Then reinstall the video driver.

NOTE: This may not fix the problem if old video drivers from a previous install are still on your HD. I see it is a NVidia driver, which are known for not getting removed during a de-install. There are third party utilities for purging a system of NVidia drivers, but I do not have the links for them.

Maybe someone will step in and offer them up.

Nifty · « **Reply #3 on:** July 10, 2002, 12:36:09 PM »

*steps up*

http://www.guru3d.com/detonator-destroyer/index1.shtml

link to Detonator Destroyer. (err, called Detonator Deleter now)

Modas · « **Reply #4 on:** July 10, 2002, 02:00:16 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by Skuzzy
That error is the result of a video driver being installed without removing the old one, either done during a video driver update or a video card replacement.

Remove the video driver from your system and set the video type to VGA or SVGA and reboot.

Then reinstall the video driver.

NOTE: This may not fix the problem if old video drivers from a previous install are still on your HD. I see it is a NVidia driver, which are known for not getting removed during a de-install. There are third party utilities for purging a system of NVidia drivers, but I do not have the links for them.

Maybe someone will step in and offer them up.

Well, I'll give it a try. I just redid my system from scratch (formating HD and everything) about 3 months ago and haven't updated any drivers since, so I know there are no old drivers out there.... Sometimes I really hate computers.

Thanks for the help!

Skuzzy · « **Reply #5 on:** July 10, 2002, 05:11:35 PM »

Ok,..wierd then.

Just FYI:

When you get the DDHELP error from a DX based app, it is almost always related to the video driver not being installed correctly. In your case,...if you have not updated your drivers since installation from scratch (I assume you repartitoned and formatted the partitions before the reinstall), then you got me on this one.