I dont know why, but all of the sudden everytime I use a program that uses the acknex dll, the program crashes to that screen were is says there is an error and asks you if you want to send an error report (freekin windows...) and it happens with a few other 3d games, I know I dont have a very detailed description, cuz I dont really know whats going on with it, it was working fine before, and the only things I can think of is that I installed quicktime and I deleted some of the optional windows components like fax stuff and other things I didn't want, I even re-installed windows, and it still wont work, I was just wondering if anyone else ran into this problem and figured out how to fix it without reformatting the rest of my life................ ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ..............

-what version of 3d gamestudio (beta)
-what kind of windows version (w/sp2)
-what is the error message (dump) from windows
-what kind of videocard do you have, latest driver, directx (*problem other games as you said)
-do you have a debugger installed like vc2005 or something
-do you have set some rule in firewall or inside virus-scanner perhaps


You can set common windows errors off to only report critical errors in XP
Make sure everything is up to date hardware/software/drivers
See if you firewall has not setup some (bad) rule for acknex.dll
Run spyware/addware cleaner

That is all I can think of right now..

But if you say; you have recently reinstalled windows and all your (drivers) applications, games and gamestudio. Then maybe it's one of those softwares that is causing the trouble for you, or something went wrong while updating the acknex.dll?

All the best,


Dusty

I re-installed windows because of it, my videocard was working fine with it before (geforce fx 5200, bought it for ps 2.0) but it worked fine before, I'll try and post the dump tomarrow, I have sp 2, I have no firewall, cuz that computer isnt on the internet right now, so I have no clue

Hiya.

Uh, you don't happen to be talking about Quicktime *7*, do you? A fair number of people have had serious, OS-screwing, rip-your-hair-out, problems with QT7. When you say "reinstall Windows", you are talking about completely re-formating your "Drive C:\" (whatever drive/partition you have Windows on), and doing a fresh install, right? Otherwise, you could be doing more harm than good. That's been my experience anyway.
Goodluck!

I've got geforece 5200, that card handles 3dgs and a lot of other games fine. I'm going to guess a virus hit your computer.

@paul l ming:
I dont know which quicktime, it was the latest one, and as far as reinstalling windows, I barrowed a xp pro disc from an undisclosed friend and installed it on my computer overwriting my existing home (reinstalling drivers really sucked tho)so no I didnt reformat cuz that is a real hassle, and quite annoying cuz alot of my software are from disks that I lost. I dont know about the qt thing tho

@foxhound, yeah, I'd think it's a virus too, but it hasnt been hooked up to the internet since november, and I dont think I got a virus from the actual I-tunes website when I downloaded quicktime, but even so, I dont think it was a virus cuz I dont think someone would take the time to write a virus and have it only effect a small range of software, cuz thier is only one other program that it is affecting, I dont know if anyone has heard of alien arena, (it actually works but gets that error after 5 or so minutes, whereas the 3dgs software just shuts down as soon as I test the level or if I open like a demo here on the 3dgs, it does it right away) so um yeah


@everyone helpful:AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Well, it seems that in your case a fresh new install of XP could do the trick,
with all Windows Updates alpplied after and the newest drivers for your hardware,
form the mainboard to the graphiccard.

Otherwise check the system log before, there might be also something else which is
defect or making trouble, and which is also related to your AGP/chipset device.

old_bill

Suffered of the same problem! Getting rid of quicktime and reinstalling dx did the job

How serious are the problems Quicktime 7 does? I've had the problem that sometimes some games freezed after a very short time so I had to shut them down via the task manager or to press reset on the pc.