This program has performed an illegal operation...

[vonOben]

Hi

I’ve downloaded and installed winSPWW2 and patched it to Ver1.1B.
When I try to start the game I get this:

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

WINSPWW2 caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> on address 0000:83ca775a.
Register:
EAX=00000001 CS=016f EIP=83ca775a EFLGS=00010202
EBX=bff76f10 SS=0177 ESP=00eff188 EBP=83c9423c
ECX=00000800 DS=0177 ESI=00000000 FS=396f
EDX=00000400 ES=0177 EDI=83edc68c GS=0000
Byte on CS:EIP:
89 4e 40 89 56 44 eb 04 8b 74 24 54 8b 44 24 20
Stackdump:
83b99410 83edc638 00001200 809134ca 83edc00c 00000002 00001200 00000004 00000000 cc8cb000 83edc68c 00000040 83b99410 00000000 809134ca 00440044

My specs:
OS: Win98SE
Language: Swedish
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2,0 GhZ
RAM: DDR 512 Mb
Video Card: Voodoo 5500 AGP
DirectX version: 4.09.00.0902

Any ideas what I can do?

Cheers

[Mobhack]

vonOben said:
Hi

I’ve downloaded and installed winSPWW2 and patched it to Ver1.1B.
When I try to start the game I get this:

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

WINSPWW2 caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> on address 0000:83ca775a.
Register:
EAX=00000001 CS=016f EIP=83ca775a EFLGS=00010202
EBX=bff76f10 SS=0177 ESP=00eff188 EBP=83c9423c
ECX=00000800 DS=0177 ESI=00000000 FS=396f
EDX=00000400 ES=0177 EDI=83edc68c GS=0000
Byte on CS:EIP:
89 4e 40 89 56 44 eb 04 8b 74 24 54 8b 44 24 20
Stackdump:
83b99410 83edc638 00001200 809134ca 83edc00c 00000002 00001200 00000004 00000000 cc8cb000 83edc68c 00000040 83b99410 00000000 809134ca 00440044

My specs:
OS: Win98SE
Language: Swedish
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2,0 GhZ
RAM: DDR 512 Mb
Video Card: Voodoo 5500 AGP
DirectX version: 4.09.00.0902

Any ideas what I can do?

Cheers

The requirements for the game are as stated here: Game Requirements

You have Directx 4, when version 8.1 or better is required. That could be the problem.

I would try upgrading your DirectX to version 8.1.

NB - the game requirements are also in the manual, and if you cannot launch the game, you can get to that by navigating to program files/shrapnel games/winspww2/game notes folder and opening the spww2guide.htm file

Cheers
Andy

[vonOben]

Hi

No I don’t have DirectX 4, but I agree the way Dxdiag shows the DirectX version can be slightly confusing.

Version Number: 4.09.0000.0902
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b

DirectX info found here:
http://www.computerhope.com/directx.htm

However I found a solution to this problem:

In the Game Options I changed “Show Introduction” from Yes to No and now can I start the game without any problems.

Merry Christmas

[Mobhack]

vonOben said:
Hi

No I don’t have DirectX 4, but I agree the way Dxdiag shows the DirectX version can be slightly confusing.

Version Number: 4.09.0000.0902
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b

DirectX info found here:
http://www.computerhope.com/directx.htm

However I found a solution to this problem:

In the Game Options I changed “Show Introduction” from Yes to No and now can I start the game without any problems.

Merry Christmas

Strange - as the splash screen uses DirectShow, which is rather old tech.

The only thing I can think is that one of the splash screen images is corrupt or you may have disk corruption.
Try opening the splashscreen pics in the game data\pictures\interface folder and see if any have errors?. Also - a run of scandisk may clear up any lost clusters etc.


Cheers
Andy

[vonOben]

Hi again

I tested the pics and all of them open without any problems. I then ran Scandisk and there were no errors.

I saw that the pics were in 24 bit colour and tested to change my desktop colour setting from 16 bit to 24 bit and the game now starts without any problems when “Show Introduction” is activated.

Cheers

[Mobhack]

Just to check that out - I changed my colour to medium (16 bit) resolution and ran it with no problems, in XP at least.

Cheers
Andy