VS crashing on startup for versions 0.3.1 and 0.3.9 in Win98

Runner · Post by **Runner** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 5:52 pm

I bought a new computer two months ago and since then I never was able to launch vegastrike in win98. So I waited for a new version and here it is and still it crashes in the same manner (immediately after starting):

VEGASTRIKE verursachte einen Fehler durch eine ungÃ¼ltige Seite
in Modul OPENAL32.DLL bei 018f:00f586ac.
Register:
EAX=010ca1f0 CS=018f EIP=00f586ac EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0197 ESP=012eeff4 EBP=012efc00
ECX=00000000 DS=0197 ESI=00000000 FS=32a7
EDX=00f561d7 ES=0197 EDI=00f51aa6 GS=3aae
Bytes bei CS:EIP:
c7 83 2c 01 00 00 02 00 00 00 c7 83 28 01 00 00
Stapelwerte:
0149dfb5 00000000 ffffffff 4558452e 1e097800 0000003f 0148f3c0 0148f3a0 bff7b9c5 81d662d4 0000003f 0148f3e0 01480a90 0147afd0 012ef088 012ef08c

The computer:
Win98 SE
on a Athlon 2400+XP
512 MB Ram 266
MSI nforce2 motherboard
need other data?
No sound card, using onboard nforce2 chip (which seems to be crappy).
Any idea what's wrong with my system?

cu, Runner
p.s.: I suspect the soundchip to cause the troubles... What does openal32.dll anyway?

Post by **hellcatv** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 12:40 am

turn off sound then try it

does that help

it shouldn't touch the OpenAL module

otherwise run that *EAX.exe program that's in the data directory

or download and install openal.org's mdoules

Kosmos · Post by **Kosmos** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 7:27 pm

i am having a similar problem with 0.3.9
when i am trying to start a game after i press new game and then ok
a black appears and it stucks there
i am having win 98 SE

Post by **hellcatv** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 9:54 pm

run it in windowed mode

run setup.exe

turn off sound FX
turn on windowed mode (windowed 32 bit mode)

what vidcard have you

this should fix the problem--it's a driver problem otherwise your computer wouldn't hang

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 10:10 pm

i did it with no efect.
my video card is viper v550 with riva tnt 1

i notice (when i was trying to close vega strike) that the please-wait-while-vegastrike-loads window is (not responding) i dont know if this is going to help you understant my problem

thanks for replying

Post by **hellcatv** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 11:11 pm

so you started in window mode

then it waits for about 5 minutes to load...
but usually it changes which texture it loads

does it have a name when it stops working

it gets stops responding while it's generating the dynamic u niverse