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I have had COD4 and crysis for 2 months now – unable to play either. After installing them neither will even load the startup screenn various error mesages (usually a no disk error for crysis, an application exception error for COD4) Strangely when I look in event viewer I cant pinpoint where the problem is coming from in either game.
All my drivers are now up to date (nightmare on dial up – thats why its taken me a while to get round to it) basically updated the graphics, audio and chipset. Turned off anti virus and firewall.
Graphics are ATI 1950, chip is intel core 2 duo. Windows XP MCE
Looking at the crysis log there seems to be something about cry render not working.
Stream Engine Initialization
Network initialization
[net] using iocp socket io management
Physics initialization
MovieSystem initialization
Renderer initialization
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*ERROR
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Error loading DLL: CryRenderD3D9.dll, error code 998
Last System Error: Invalid access to memory location. Windows XP 32 bit SP 2 (build 5.1.2600)
System language: English
Windows Directory: “C:WINDOWS”
Prerequisites…
* Installation of KB940105 hotfix required: no! (either not needed or already installed)
Local time is 00:52:31 01/22/08, system running for 21 minutes
2048MB physical memory installed, 1578MB available, 2047MB virtual memory installed, 22 percent of memory in use
PageFile usage: 63MB, Working Set: 40MB, Peak PageFile usage: 73MB,
Current display mode is 1920x1200x32, VGA
IBM enhanced (101/102-key) keyboard and 5+ button mouse installed
So any ideas? Its driving me nuts this!Pretty much the same problem I have with 2142/Crysis unfortunately for me the only solution I have is to load a earlier sets of Nvidia drivers when I want to play 2142 and if I want to run Crysis I have to install the lastest drivers, Crysis was/is preety wank so I stick to the earlier drivers. Anyway sounds like gfx probs to me mate go back a couple of revisions and see whats happens.
Try upping your page file a bit if it’s lower than 1024mb
The newest drivers are not always the best.
Has thee installed the latest Crysis patch? v1.1
* Fixed: Potential crash in D3D10
* Fixed: Orange boxes apearing when hispec savegame loaded into lowspec game.
* Fixed: Inconsistent damage dealt to vehicles when shot by LAW.
* Fixed: Reflection resolution on D3D10, MultiGPU reflection update fix
* Fixed: Memory leak with FSAA modes
* Fixed: Infinite ammo hacks.
* Fixed: Memory leak in D3D10 when switching screen modes
* Fixed: Muti optimizations
* Fixed: When player melees during gun raise animation, their gun will be in a permanantly raised position.
* Fixed: Crash when loading savegame with level exported recently by editor
* Fixed: Virtual keyboard does not function properly when a game pad is connected
* Fixed: Users can lose the ability to look around with the Right Stick
* Fixed: Setting screen resolution to “default” stops user from selecting last resolution
* Fixed: Bug when changing resolution in D3D10
* Fixed: Issues with Depth of field and water droplets in D3D10
* Fixed: Crash on NaN warningUpdates
* Added: Motion Blur UI and V.SYNC UI options
* Optimized: Motion blur
* Optimized: FSAA (Full Scene Anti-Aliasing)
* Optimized sound id implementation
* Enabled VSync functionality in D3D10
* New benchmarking files for ice CPU benchmark.
* http/xmlrpc password protected remote control session
* Marked debug cvars as cheat
* F12 (screenshot) now works in restricted mode as wellTweaks
* Reduced LAW splash damage vs. infantry in PowerStruggle mode
* Slowed Rocket projectile speed down in MP slightly
* Disabled automatic turret bounding boxes on vehicles to prevent issues with LAW hit detection
* Reduced grenade explosion radius in multiplayer
* Clamped water tesselation to avoid cheating in MP
* MultiGPU improvements with depth map updatesYou can find the Patch on http://www.crymod.com.
Try reinstalling DX9 also if issues with COD4.. although I’m surprised that doesnt run :/
Cheers dudes.
Reinstalled Dx 9 – no help. I havent downloaded that large patch yet Insane – i was kind of working on the basis that the game should have still worked pre patch anyway.. and the fact it affects two games was suspicious. You are right though… its worth a try – I will try and get it.
I have tried two different revisions of my creative and ati drivers – no help.
I was especially suspicious of creative – seeing as every driver they have ever given me has been a buggy pile of shite… but its not clear cut in this instance.
I can play all my other games fine – bioshock/ World in crisis etc 🙁
Not read all this but have a look through.. might have some tips.. I did notice a “CD not installed” bit though
Hope this helps
Thanks for that – theres one suggestion there i havent tried – will give it a go. Failing that it looks like a complete reinstall is the only possibility! I hate f’ing PC’s!
Now…. if I do a complete reinstall… and I dont have broadband… is there anyway to avoid having to download all the microsoft hotfixes from the internet on reinstall? They must all be on the computer somewhere… but Im buggered if i can find a way to track them down so that i can save them and install them once i am all booted up again.
My last ditch efforts have failed… I even did a bios update last night as a final try.
Come on guys – help us out!
Have you checked the memory on your laptop, using memtest86? You can download for free from http://www.memtest86.com/
A lot of people ran into problems with 2142 because it used uber amounts of memory – more than any previous games – and so encountered RAM defects which had previously gone unnoticed as that area of the ram chip hadn’t been used much. I imagine alot of the newer games are using more physical memory too.
Its a long shot but worth ruling out.
I noticed that the error message could indicate a RAM problem wips – but kind of discounted it as a possibility given the fact my other games worked fine.
You are right though… these 2 games may be putting more pressure on the memory than the others so I was maybe a bit hasty to reject the idea. Will run memtest tonight!
mem test gave the ram the all clear… I’m not sure if I should be happy or sad 🙁
so….. backing up service packs/hotfixes… possible?
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