[.98][Crash]CTD before the game starts

from Elemental Forums

My game at the moment has gone from this issue to now crashing after the elemental Crystal Screen.  It doesn't seem ot be generating any of the usual dump files, instead, it goes to the Microsoft error reporting screen.

 

I haven't been able to get a longer file for this error, but the messages numbers that seem to be important are:

 

Offset: 00422465  (In a first message)

 

Exception unknown software exception (0xc000000d) occurred in the location 0x781761ab

 

(Not sure at all what these numbers mean, or if they are the useful ones, hopefully they are.)

 

DxDiag   (This type of crash also occurred with some older video drivers, from 2008 I think, though I didn't get any details for those.)

The game hasn't produced any of its usual dump files, from what i have seem.

2,804 views 2 replies
Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I have the same problem. During the creation of the game map, Elemental crashes.

I played around to the different resolution, which avatar and country i selected. When the resolution was set to the lowest value and the game was set to run in window mode, then for some reason i could get Elemental to create the map, but the game stopped before the first turn was over, i tried to build a workshop and then Elemental crashed. There wasn't any notice about what the problem could be.

When i tried to run the game in fullscreen mode, the creation of the map, of the world, made Elemental crash before I got to see the initial screen after the loading screen.

When i tried to run the game in Window mode, no matter what resolution, i got the initial screen after the loading screen of the creation of the Elemental world.

During the while running in window mode, i kept checking the memory, but it didnt look like there was a problem, the memory never got above 600 mb, but i never got to the 2. turn, Elemental crashed every time i tried to build a workshop.

OS: Windows 7 (fully updated)

Debug file:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6700313/debug%20low%20resolution.err

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6700313/debug2%20highest%20resolution.err

 

 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

The devs have said that the gold version is so different from the last beta that there isn't much point in reporting bugs now.

SoundPackager - Customize the Windows sound scheme