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RC6 win32 ufoai crash on startup again
« on: November 20, 2006, 11:54:22 pm »
Hello.

I have almost the same problem, as mentioned by Twinks (The instruction at 0x6972da53 referenced to memory at 0x00000000. Memory could not be "read"), but I have a suspicion what might have happened it. I have a HP Pavilion notebook powered by AMD Sempron 3000+ processor with nVidia GeForce4 Go 420 32 MB (WinXP Home PL SP2 fully patched). When I installed the game, I had installed graphic drivers obtained from HP website. They were pretty old (version 72.30 B, released on March 30th, 2005), but the game worked fine. When I changed the drivers to the newest built - ForceWare ver. 97.20, the game began to crash on startup. As far as I remember, Twinks also has nVidia-based graphic card on-board. So maybe there is a problem with new video drivers from nVidia...

PS. I look forward for the problem to be solved, because the game is absolutely GREAT!!! :).

best regards
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RC6 win32 ufoai crash on startup again
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2006, 09:32:33 am »
we maybe solved this problem - i  would like you to check this binary and report back please: http://ufo.myexp.de/ufo.exe (this binary may contain other bugs - it's only for verifing the startup crash - if it works there will be a patch soon)
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« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2006, 10:40:19 am »
Thanks, as soon as I go home I will check whether it works and let you know.
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RC6 win32 ufoai crash on startup again
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2006, 03:19:19 pm »
works for me, thank you.
i just started it and closed since i wanna report back asap.
http://ufo.myexp.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=630
that is the link to my prob, mybe it helps for them too?
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RC6 win32 ufoai crash on startup again
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2006, 10:07:08 pm »
Unfortunately, it does not work :(. I still receive the same error message...
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RC6 win32 ufoai crash on startup again
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2006, 03:31:41 pm »
Works for me, but I have to Alt-TAB away from the all gray screen that pops up first and then back again to see the main menu screen. After that it seems to work.
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RC6 win32 ufoai crash on startup again
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2006, 10:30:37 pm »
Hello again.

I would like to tell you that there was nothing wrong with the game itself. It was a problem with video drivers. I installed version that was supposed to work only with the newest nVidia 8800 series. When I uninstalled them and installed 93.71 version instead, the game runs just perfectly. Sorry for making problem, now everything is ok :).

Thanks again for the game :)

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RC6 win32 ufoai crash on startup again
« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2006, 11:45:55 am »
Yesterday I installed RC6 on a windows box and it had the same problem. It crashed during startup.

Quote from: "Mattn"
we maybe solved this problem - i  would like you to check this binary and report back please: http://ufo.myexp.de/ufo.exe (this binary may contain other bugs - it's only for verifying the startup crash - if it works there will be a patch soon)


Using the patched ufo.exe solved the problem. No extra alt-tabbing or anything else.
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