New error message

Samurai · #1 April 11th, 2001, 02:16 PM

Hi,

I've been pulling my hair out over all the Range Check Errors while *trying* to play this game (I've managed to finish a game only once).

And now, to make matters worse, in my current game (around Turn 70) I keep getting Messages like this:

Access violation at address 00000038. Read of address FFFFFFFF.

and

Access violation at address 0045A6E3 in module "SE4.EXE". Read of address 72617521.

Please, somebody out there, help!

I'm running Version 1.30, with no other mods than the TDM pack and a change to the systemtypes.txt file to remove moons and black holes.

I have Win98 on a Compaq PIII 733 with 128 megs RAM. Before this install of SE4, I ran scan disk and defrag.

Another recurring problem is that sometimes, during the portion of the end-turn phase when my ships are moving around, a picture of one of my ships will get "stuck" in the upper left-hand corner of the screen, and I have to reduce the game and bring it back up again to get rid of the corruption.

dogscoff · #2 April 11th, 2001, 02:30 PM

Sounds like something funny going on with your memory. I doubt it's a hardware fault though. Do you run any other programs in the background whil playing? (virus checkers, internet apps, anything at all?)

Samurai · #3 April 11th, 2001, 04:01 PM

Usually, I have the virus checker McAfee VShield running, but not always.

dogscoff · #4 April 11th, 2001, 04:17 PM

I don't know what to suggest really. There don't seem to be many complaints from other Users so the problem must be with your soft/ hardware. It could be a graphics card or driver or something that doesn't get on with SE. There are a few things which might make it go away:

Get rid of that virus checker when running SEIV. This is a pain, but try it a few times and see if it makes a difference. If it helps, consider switching to another V_vhecker. If not, keep running the old one.

Have a look at your startup directory to make sure there's nothing else running in the background that maybe you didn't know about / had forgotten.

You might also want to try updating some of your hardware drivers from the web. It could be a bug in that software which has been fixed.

Oh, the same applies to win98 - there are some patches on M*croS*ft's site which do wonders for certain Versions of Win98.

These are all fairly safe activities, but if you do mangle your ststem whilst attempting them - it wasn't me=-) Perhaps we should see what some other ppl on this forum think first. Any ideas?

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Nitram Draw · #5 April 11th, 2001, 04:26 PM

I received an error message like that one time, I don't remember the exact error but it was an access violation. It happened about 100-125 turns into a game IIRC. I was using the TDM mod pack, 1.61 I think, and a few other downloaded races. I just figured it was caused by one of the downloaded races as I never had a problem with using the mod pack and standard races.
Had to eventually scrap the game.

Lemmy · #6 April 11th, 2001, 04:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Samurai:

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Another recurring problem is that sometimes, during the portion of the end-turn phase when my ships are moving around, a picture of one of my ships will get "stuck" in the upper left-hand corner of the screen, and I have to reduce the game and bring it back up again to get rid of the corruption.

i actually had this problem too, it only occured with a certain transport ship which had movement orders at the end of the turn
i'm not having that anymore in my new game, don't know what caused it either.

i don't think any of the other problems are hardware related, i play this game on celeron 466 with 128 mb ( played it for a while with 64 mb, no problems )
in my new game i only get errors if a ship is still moving and i press the cargo transfer button.

[This message has been edited by LemmyM (edited 11 April 2001).]