Demo crashes on startup - RADEON 9500 PRO

dbisdorf · #1 August 12th, 2007, 07:48 PM

I'm trying to run the demo under Windows XP, with a RADEON 9500 PRO video card and the Omega 2.6.61 drivers, and the demo crashes on startup before displaying any graphics. The error message given is:

The instruction at "0x7c9111cd" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read".

The behavior is the same if I use the copy of D3DDev.dll provided in another forum topic.

Let me know if there is any other information I can provide to help resolve this.

Thanks,
Don

scott_wakeling · #2 August 13th, 2007, 08:27 AM

Please email me so I can help you.

scott dot wakeling at gmail dot com

scott_wakeling · #3 August 15th, 2007, 08:58 AM

This problem turned out to be OpenAL related. Users with Creative Labs cards have been having similar problems.

If the demo fails to start on your machine, you have a Creative Labs audio card, and the last thing log.txt talks about is loading the audio device..you need to update your OpenAL installation.

Get the latest OpenAL installer from:

http://www.openal.org/downloads.html

and once installed, delete wrap_oal.dll and openal32.dll from scallywag's install dir.

This problem only effects some users of Creative Labs cards.