Glest crashes on WinXP (Radeon Cards) (fixed on 1.1.0-rc1)

[Tom]

Glest version 1.0.1 crashes on WinXP SP1 after some time playing the game. I've noticed this effect on former versions of Glest as well.

Start it: fine.
Start a new game: fine.
Play for app. 10 minutes: you get an error and the game crashes.

Either by displaying a WinXP popup window saying "access violation in module XYZ". Or a Glest error message pops up. It seems, Glest is unable to access a spec. memory location.

This looks like some kind of null pointer error to me (just my 2 cents).

Since this is a permanent error, I'm unable to play Glest 1.0.1.

[martiño]

I also have WinXP SP1 and I had no problems, please send us the crash.txt file in glest folder.

[Tom]

Here it is:

Crash
Version: v1.0.1
Time: Sat Sep 25 21:20:47 2004
Description: Access violation (Reading address 0x84c1)
Address: 0x84c1

Still I'm not sure if it is of use. This message isn't into too much detail, is it?

[martiño]

Yes it's usefull because it tells me the address of the crash. If I'm lucky it may give me enough info to solve it.

[martiño]

one more question, can you tell me what video card and sound card do you have?

[Tom]

Well, I run a ATI Radeon 9600 card with the latest Catalyst 4.6 driver, Direct X 9.0b and Creative Soundblaster Live.

[Antastan]

same crashes happen to me too at winxp sp1 :(

crash.txt:
Crash
Version: v1.0.1
Time: Sun Sep 26 17:41:43 2004
Description: Access violation (Reading address 0x84c1)
Address: 0x84c1

i'm using a radeon 9600xt and an athlon 64bit +3200. soundcard is a creative soundblaster 128

[Tom]

Oh, this is the same error and even the same ATI graphics card, same OS and a similar sound card.

So at least: I'm not the only one experiencing this problem. ;)

[Lt.Rochus]

I downloaded Glest yesterday and I played about ten minutes also. My OS is WinXP and My VideoCard is 9600 ATi with the lastest drivers. I am also experiencing the crash. I believe it is the same error as 0x84c1 or something like that. I not sure because I'm at school and I didn't bring the error file.

[martiño]

All the cards are radeon cards. Strange. We will investigate...

[Lt.Rochus]

Here is the crash file.

Crash
Version: v1.0.1
Time: Mon Oct 04 23:24:50 2004
Description: Access violation (Reading address 0x84c1)
Address: 0x84c1

Crash
Version: v1.0.1
Time: Mon Oct 04 23:36:12 2004
Description: Access violation (Reading address 0x84c1)
Address: 0x84c1


Here is what I have:

Hewlett-Packard Pavilion m370n
Windows XP Media
Pentium 4 CPU 2.8 GHz
1 GB of RAM
Radeon 9600 Driver Date 6/10/2004 Version 6.14.10.6458

[Lt.Rochus]

I just found out that  there is a new driver version for ATi 9600 (Version: 6.14.10.6476)  

I can't try it out now because it would take me all night to download, so I will install the new driver tomorrow  and see if that helps. Good nite.

[Lt.Rochus]

I updated the drivers for my 9600 Radeon and the new drivers did not correct problem.

[BombTrack]

hi,

i have a similar problem on two different xpsp1 machines.
crash to desktop after 10 min. without! error message.

machine 1: athlon xp3000 - radeon 9700pro - ati catalyst 4.9 - c-media ac97 onboard sound
machine 2: p4 northwood 3.4ghz - radeon x800pro - ati catalyst 4.9 - sb audigy player

[martiño]

We have been investigating and we think that this is a problem of catalyst drivers, soon we will post a list of drivers versions that work ok with the game.

[martiño]

Radeon cards again, there must be some buggy radeon driver version around there, because two of us (tucho and enveloop) have also radeon cards and the game never crashed.

Please tucho, post here the driver version that worked ok with glest.

[tucho]

If I remember rightly, the driver version is Catalyst 3.7

download here

[enveloop]

I believe my driver is 4.4, and the game runs with no problem; however I remebered that some time ago I downloaded a newer version and it gave me some trouble (the resources didn´t show up in the screen for instance) so I went back to this one. Anyway, tucho plays very often and for long periods of time so you may test his driver first.

[Lt.Rochus]

Goat smelling, tittie sagging, viagra using, loser of a video card.
My game crashed when I was having so much fun.

My crash details:

Crash
Version: v1.0.6
Time: Tue Nov 02 22:19:14 2004
Description: Access violation (Reading address 0x84c1)
Address: 0x84c1

[Lt.Rochus]

:D  Thanks Panda, I followed your advice and Qlest 1.06 has not crashed on me since.

Are you a programmer Panda?

[martiño]

So this has to be something related with night lighting, I will try to debug it but it will be quite difficult sonce I dont have a radeon card to test it,. enveloop, can you try downloading those drivers (4.1) and testing if it crashes?

[martiño]

Anyone of you  can enable debug mode (in glest.ini) and send me a secreen of the game just in the moment of the crash?

[martiño]

Can anyone also try disabling shadows and checking if the game still crashes?

[tucho]

do you have some crash.txt file in the glest directory?

Anyway Martin-o is still away, and he is who can know the reason of the crash...

[gattschardo]

hello guys, I got the same problem too.

Crash
Version: v1.0.9
Time: Tue Apr 12 16:03:03 2005
Description: Access violation (Reading address 0x84c1)
Address: 0x84c1

Crash
Version: v1.0.9
Time: Tue Apr 12 16:11:37 2005
Description: Access violation (Reading address 0x84c1)
Address: 0x84c1

Crash
Version: v1.0.9
Time: Tue Apr 12 16:33:54 2005
Description: Access violation (Reading address 0x84c1)
Address: 0x84c1

Crash
Version: v1.0.9
Time: Tue Apr 12 18:55:57 2005
Description: Access violation (Reading address 0x84c1)
Address: 0x84c1

I tried it three times, always the same thing. is there no solution?
i got xp with service pack 2 (build 2600) bot a friend of mine (xp, too) doesn't have this problem. i think its really about these radeon cards - i got a 9600SE and he's just using his onboard.

PS: has nothing to do with the day/night change, i tried it.

PPS: i already sent more details to game-^-glest.org, same name