Several errors have been generated and the application is stalling

[onlyproblems]

Hello,

I am receiving constantly during gameplay this erros message. Screenshot attached.

Reisntalled the game and applied the latest Patch 1.13b = Still not working.

Can anyone help me???

Greets from Argentina,

John

[Gray_Lensman]

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[onlyproblems]

Dear Gray,

that was one fast reply.

What other information would you need from me?

Computer Info:
DELL XPS 16"
IntelCoreDuo2 T9400, 2.53GHz
64-Bit Windows Visa Premium
4GB Ram

MainLog file attached as well.
Any other info you need I will try to provide.

Regards,

John

[onlyproblems]

Dear Gray,

after uninstalling and re-installing the game + patch, following error appeared. Screenshot attached.

Seems that the game isn't fit yet for the 64-Bit generation of Operating Systems.

You have maybe this file somewhere? (I'll start googling around now)

Cheers,

John

[onlyproblems]

D3DRM.dll

[onlyproblems]

alright, so now the error pops up in the starting screen once you press the LOAD GAME button.

Screenshot + Mainlog file attached

Missing DLL file located with Google. Where to put that file? Windows main folder?

Cheers,

John

[Gray_Lensman]

We'll have to wait for Pocus to weigh in on this. The game installation/patch files are not the cause of your problem so maybe it's a hardware/driver compatability issue. Pocus would have more experience in that area.

[ShovelHead]

This DirectX file, d3drm.dll, is deprecated in Vista.

You can download the file from the following link:

http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new.php/dllfiles/D/d3drm.dll/5.1.2600.0/download.html


For vista 32bit ( x86 ) place the file in the following path: C:/windows/system32

For vista 64bit (x64) place the file in the following path: C:/windows/sysWOW64

[onlyproblems]

Alright, let's wait.

Would be great to solve this issue somehow.

Thanks for your fast responses!

[ShovelHead]

See Pocus's sticky,

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=3122

[Gray_Lensman]

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[onlyproblems]

Ok, just tried that.

Added the .dll file into the windows vista folder and into the game folder.

Error messages continue to pop up.

[richfed]

Be sure that the d3drm.dll file is in the root folder of the game --- right in there with the aacw.exe file.

[onlyproblems]

That's exactly what I did. See screenshot.

[Pocus]

Please install the game somewhere else than in C:\Program Files, the programs there are monitored strictly by Vista.
You should also try to install DirectX 9.0c, as Vista Legacy support is not 100% perfect:
Dx9: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3

[onlyproblems]

Alright, I did everything that I was told to do:

1. Uninstalled the game
2. Reinstalled it in a different directory
3. Installed the latest Patch
4. Added the *.dll file in the windows SysWOW64 folder and the game folder where the .exe file is
5. Installed the directX plugin

Started the program and wanted to load a game (moved the saved game folder into the right folder) and the same error message pops up again.

[onlyproblems]

I just installed the latest Service Pack 2 release for 64-Bit Vista OS.
(It was released on the May 25, 2009)

However, the problems stay on.

[Pocus]

Sorry I'm running out of idea here. I know some of us (one of the dev included) are running the games (and even developping ) on Vista 64 w/o problem, so this is not an easy incompatibility problem to solve. If you bought the game at AGEOD, I would suggest a refund or an exchange for another game (WW1 is not using the same engine).

[onlyproblems]

I bought the game at http://www.gamersgate.com . Biut the thing is I don't want a refund or another game - I want to play that game. Took quite some time to get into the gaming concept/manuals and had after some tryouts great fun and then suddenly during gameplay these errors.

I want to play this game.

Maybe there are other programs installed that conflict with that one?

What are the exact hardware/software requirements for that game? (Maybe there is something that I have overseen)

What does the DEV guy with his 64-Bit Vista OS that I don't do correctly?

[Rafiki]

Perhaps you could provide a view of which programs/processes you have running on your machine, e.g. a screenshot of the overview in Program Manager (or whatever Vista calls it)?

[richfed]

Try uninstalling and then turning OFF User Account Control. Reinstall the game normally with the UAC setting turned OFF.

Might work -

[onlyproblems]

I turned off UAC the day I received my notebook from DELL. Was too annoying.

BTW - I decided to play from the start and NOT move the old saved game folder.

Game worked fine till the year around 1862 early August and then BAAAAAMM crash again.

See latest MainLog file.

Any clue?

[Gray_Lensman]

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[onlyproblems]

I got 4GB of RAM.

See screenshot of my systemsettings (without ID Key of my Windows copy)

[Pocus]

That's a problem with the video card/driver. Do you have an ATI?, they sometime pose this problem: their memory is not properly flushed when rotating textures out of memory, and then in the end you crash with an out of memory error.
For Vista a driver of less than 6 months is almost mandatory.

[tagwyn]

OM: Replace your Vista with XP! Vista is not a good system IMHO.
This is what I have done and I have no problems now. t

[PanzerHue]

That's a problem with the video card/driver. Do you have an ATI?, they sometime pose this problem: their memory is not properly flushed when rotating textures out of memory, and then in the end you crash with an out of memory error.
For Vista a driver of less than 6 months is almost mandatory.

Hi,
I have just got ACW and have with joy been spending some time reading manual and the many great posts in this forum.
However when I started to play the game (more than 2 turns) I recieved the same error as "onlyproblem". I have read this thread and been trying out the suggested solutions but it keep popping up.
I have an ATI video card and I would like to know if there is any solution to the problem described by Pocus (above)?
Thanx for a freat forum...

Best regards

EDIT: the error only appear when I activate SVF mod!(?)

[Pocus]

The initial error of onlyproblem is just a generic message. So you would need to activate error logging (in Main menu, options, system) to get a more detailed one. Hopefully with that, we will see what sort of error. If this is an historical event from the SVF mod, then this is nothing to fix, and Clovis, the mod author will take care of the bug without difficulty.

[PanzerHue]

Hi Pocus,
Thanx for your reply.
The main Log showed some errors with UID's and unable to find mediainfo for images etc.
Best regards...

[Athens]

Hi Pocus,
Thanx for your reply.
The main Log showed some errors with UID's and unable to find mediainfo for images etc.
Best regards...

The modded areas.ini file of the mod isn't correctly installed. Place this file in the Struggle for a vast future/Gamedata directory