Weird HW2 v1.1 patching problem (Win)

[Duke of Shao]

Hi All,

So I am returning to HW2 after a rather long break, and esp. excited to try out some of the mods that have come a long way in their development. After installing from CD, I can play v1.0 fine (aside from its balance issues, obviously), but when I update using the v1.1 patch, I cannot get the game to run - at all. Using my shortcut (with -luatrace added) I get the "hourglass" for a second and that's it; the optical drive doesn't even wind up to check the CD key.

I don't know what the problem is, and since the game doesn't even start then CTD, I can't even get a log file out of it. I am confident that my machine is up to the challenge since I've run all DOW & DOW2 games without any problems (i.e. my graphics card and drivers should be fine). If you need any more details, I'll be happy to supply them!

Cheers, DS

Edit #1
Forgot to mention that previous playing of HW2, successful patching, and Mods was on a Mac. After the problems I sometimes experienced on the Mac w/ HW2, I expected the Win install would be problem-free!

[TON_Viper]

Usually the fix for that is to set the compatibility mode to Windows NT

*edit* although I also once had that problem when I had neglected to update my graphics driver from the one automatically installed by windows. If you have an Nvidia card, the driver installed by windows will NOT work in HW2, since it has some problems with OpenGL support.

[Duke of Shao]

Thanks TON_Viper. Sadly, I tried the "Windows NT" compatibility mode solution with no success, and my Nvidia card has the most current driver (27 Jun 2010), so I'm really at a loss as to what the problem might be. I'll take another pass at searching for solutions, but if anyone has other ideas, I'd be most grateful!!

-DS

[TON_Viper]

Check your hw2.log file. It may contain a clue to the problem.

[ORCACommander]

really? nvidia released a new driver just this month. what gfx card do you use?

[Duke of Shao]

@TON_Viper, since my last reply, I am happy to report that I have been able to get HW2 to begin loading (at least I get the black screen and gigantic hourglass), and I believe this is due to using compatibility mode (glad I tried again), so I do have a logfile to look at:

Fri Jun 24 11:40:53 2011
#Loaded Archive: 'Homeworld2.big'#
#UTIL -- filepath failure, path doesn't exists 'C:\PROGRA~1\HOMEWO~1\data\locale\english'#
#Loaded Archive: 'english.big'#
#Uing ..profiles\ for profiles folder#
#Changing from a 32 bit colour depth in winNT (4.0 build 1381), Service Pack 5#
#Using NVIDIA Corporation's 3.3.0 Quadro FX 3700M/PCI/SSE2 renderer (Suspected driver is nvoglnt.dll 6.14.12.5738)#
#Loaded Archive: 'englishSpeech.big'#
#Loaded Archive: 'Music.big'#
#SOUND -- created destination [ fdaudio ], handle [ 4 ] with [ 48 ] channels created#
#SOUND -- created destination [ fda streamer ], handle [ 5 ] with [ 8 ] channels created#
#Build name: The Dust Wars  - AutoBuild3569 - Ordered by smmatte#
#Built by  : mrbuild#
#Data path : C:\PROGRA~1\HOMEWO~1\data#
#

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that helpful. Here is the error log which seems slightly more informative (but really long):

Homeworld2.exe caused an Access Violation in module Homeworld2.exe at 001b:00422591.

Error occurred at 6/24/2011 11:40:56.

Homeworld2.exe, run by Charles.

Microsoft Windows XP?.

4 processor(s), type 586.

2048 MBytes physical memory.

Write to location 00000002 caused an access violation.



MiniDump saved to file 'C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\6-24-2011_11_40_56_MiniDump.dmp'



Registers:

EAX=00000000 CS=001b EIP=00422591 EFLGS=00010202

EBX=00000002 SS=0023 ESP=0013f46c EBP=0013f480

ECX=006d7224 DS=0023 ESI=054e15fc FS=003b

EDX=00000001 ES=0023 EDI=00000000 GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

66 83 24 03 00 8b 46 04 66 8b 09 66 89 08 01 5e 



Call Stack:

0x00422591: GSLobbySessionDesc::GetUserData             ()

0x00422C0F: GSLobbyPlayerDesc::~GSLobbyPlayerDesc         ()

0x00422DB1: GSLobbyPlayerDesc::GSLobbyPlayerDesc         ()

0x0052E5AB: GSTracker::operator=                        ()



0x005F58AA: getLibraryID                                ()





Stack dump:







Module list: names, addresses, sizes, time stamps and file times:

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\Memory.dll, loaded at 0x00340000 - 33280 bytes - 3fe0ce01 - file date is 12/17/2003 13:43:30

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\Platform.dll, loaded at 0x00350000 - 98304 bytes - 3fe0ce5f - file date is 12/17/2003 13:45:04

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Normaliz.dll   , loaded at 0x00370000 - 23552 bytes - 44a3ec46 - file date is 1/7/2009 18:20:36

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\Debug.dll, loaded at 0x00380000 - 10752 bytes - 3fe0cdfd - file date is 12/17/2003 13:43:26

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\Localizer.dll, loaded at 0x00390000 - 94208 bytes - 3fe0ce59 - file date is 12/17/2003 13:44:58

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\FileIO.dll, loaded at 0x003b0000 - 155648 bytes - 3fe0ce52 - file date is 12/17/2003 13:44:50

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\ZLib.dll, loaded at 0x003e0000 - 49152 bytes - 3fe0ce3b - file date is 12/17/2003 13:44:28

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\luaconfig.dll, loaded at 0x003f0000 - 57344 bytes - 3fe0ce6b - file date is 12/17/2003 13:45:16

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\Homeworld2.exe, loaded at 0x00400000 - 5562368 bytes - 3fe0d29b - file date is 6/22/2011 10:24:08

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\lua.dll, loaded at 0x00970000 - 73728 bytes - 3fe0ce66 - file date is 12/17/2003 13:45:12

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\divxmedialib.dll, loaded at 0x00990000 - 86016 bytes - 3f3bc007 - file date is 8/14/2003 18:08:56

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\DivxDecoder.dll, loaded at 0x009b0000 - 397312 bytes - 3f3bc002 - file date is 8/14/2003 18:08:56

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\FileParser.dll, loaded at 0x00a20000 - 86016 bytes - 3f3bc005 - file date is 8/14/2003 18:08:56

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\util.dll, loaded at 0x00a40000 - 36864 bytes - 3fe0ce7e - file date is 12/17/2003 13:45:34

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\hw2box.dll, loaded at 0x00a50000 -  9728 bytes - 3fe0ce78 - file date is 12/17/2003 13:45:28

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\objects.dll, loaded at 0x00a60000 - 1093632 bytes - 3fe0cfaa - file date is 12/17/2003 13:50:36

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\console.dll, loaded at 0x00c10000 -  5632 bytes - 3fe0cf2d - file date is 12/17/2003 13:48:30

C:\WINDOWS\system32\CmdLineExt03.dll, loaded at 0x020e0000 - 43520 bytes - 3fcb7916 - file date is 6/21/2011 13:29:10

C:\WINDOWS\system32\xpsp2res.dll   , loaded at 0x028f0000 - 2897920 bytes - 4802454c - file date is 4/13/2008 10:39:24

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\GL.dll, loaded at 0x031d0000 - 294912 bytes - 3fe0cfbd - file date is 12/17/2003 13:50:54

C:\PROGRA~1\HOMEWO~1\Bin\Release\seFDAudio.dll, loaded at 0x03fd0000 - 40960 bytes - 3fe0cee8 - file date is 12/17/2003 13:47:20

C:\WINDOWS\system32\btmmhook.dll   , loaded at 0x04090000 - 99688 bytes - 4c9a7239 - file date is 9/22/2010 14:18:56

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\gslobby.dll, loaded at 0x10000000 - 135168 bytes - 3fe0cf28 - file date is 12/17/2003 13:48:24

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WININET.dll    , loaded at 0x3d930000 - 916480 bytes - 4db59d20 - file date is 4/25/2011 09:11:12

C:\WINDOWS\system32\iertutil.dll   , loaded at 0x3dfd0000 - 1991680 bytes - 4db59d22 - file date is 4/25/2011 09:11:12

C:\WINDOWS\system32\dxdiagn.dll    , loaded at 0x4f680000 - 2113536 bytes - 4802a0b6 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:52

C:\WINDOWS\system32\dbghelp.dll    , loaded at 0x59a60000 - 640000 bytes - 4802a0b2 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:52

C:\WINDOWS\system32\UxTheme.dll    , loaded at 0x5ad70000 - 218624 bytes - 4802a11e - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:10

C:\WINDOWS\system32\NETAPI32.dll   , loaded at 0x5b860000 - 337408 bytes - 48f61b90 - file date is 10/15/2008 09:34:24

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ShimEng.dll    , loaded at 0x5cb70000 - 65024 bytes - 4802a114 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:12:06

C:\WINDOWS\system32\comctl32.dll   , loaded at 0x5d090000 - 617472 bytes - 4c729dd4 - file date is 8/23/2010 09:12:04

C:\WINDOWS\system32\opengl32.dll   , loaded at 0x5ed00000 - 713728 bytes - 4802a11a - file date is 4/13/2008 17:12:02

C:\WINDOWS\system32\LPK.DLL        , loaded at 0x629c0000 - 22016 bytes - 4802a0e5 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:56

C:\WINDOWS\system32\GLU32.dll      , loaded at 0x68b20000 - 122880 bytes - 4802a0be - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:54

C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvoglnt.dll    , loaded at 0x69500000 - 15192064 bytes - 4c2821a5 - file date is 6/28/2010 10:54:00

C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AcGenral.DLL   , loaded at 0x6f880000 - 1852928 bytes - 4802a098 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:48

C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AcLayers.DLL   , loaded at 0x71590000 - 471552 bytes - 4b080c67 - file date is 11/21/2009 08:51:04

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2HELP.dll    , loaded at 0x71aa0000 - 19968 bytes - 4802a164 - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:12

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll     , loaded at 0x71ab0000 - 82432 bytes - 4802a163 - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:12

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WSOCK32.dll    , loaded at 0x71ad0000 - 22528 bytes - 4802a170 - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:12

C:\WINDOWS\system32\msacm32.drv    , loaded at 0x72d10000 - 20480 bytes - 3b7dfe2a - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wdmaud.drv     , loaded at 0x72d20000 - 23552 bytes - 4802a12c - file date is 4/13/2008 17:12:46

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINSPOOL.DRV   , loaded at 0x73000000 - 146432 bytes - 4802a127 - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:46

C:\WINDOWS\system32\DDRAW.dll      , loaded at 0x73760000 - 279552 bytes - 4802a0b8 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:52

C:\WINDOWS\system32\DCIMAN32.dll   , loaded at 0x73bc0000 -  8704 bytes - 4802a0b7 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:52

C:\WINDOWS\system32\KsUser.dll     , loaded at 0x73ee0000 -  4096 bytes - 4802a0d6 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:56

C:\WINDOWS\system32\dsound.dll     , loaded at 0x73f10000 - 367616 bytes - 4802a0f6 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:52

C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll      , loaded at 0x74720000 - 297984 bytes - 4802a12c - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:58

C:\WINDOWS\system32\USP10.dll      , loaded at 0x74d90000 - 406016 bytes - 4bc88418 - file date is 4/16/2010 08:36:56

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wbemsvc.dll, loaded at 0x74ed0000 - 43520 bytes - 4802a129 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:12:08

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wbemprox.dll, loaded at 0x74ef0000 - 18944 bytes - 4802a128 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:12:08

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wbemcomn.dll, loaded at 0x75290000 - 214528 bytes - 4802a122 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:12:08

C:\WINDOWS\system32\msctfime.ime   , loaded at 0x755c0000 - 177152 bytes - 4802a12d - file date is 4/13/2008 17:10:06

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\fastprox.dll, loaded at 0x75690000 - 473600 bytes - 49901d48 - file date is 2/9/2009 05:10:48

C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVCP60.dll    , loaded at 0x76080000 - 413696 bytes - 4802a187 - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:02

C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.DLL      , loaded at 0x76390000 - 110080 bytes - 4802a0e7 - file date is 4/14/2008 05:41:56

C:\WINDOWS\system32\NTDSAPI.dll    , loaded at 0x767a0000 - 67072 bytes - 4802a117 - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:04

C:\WINDOWS\system32\USERENV.dll    , loaded at 0x769c0000 - 727040 bytes - 4802a11c - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:10

C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll      , loaded at 0x76b40000 - 176128 bytes - 4802a13c - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:10

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINTRUST.dll   , loaded at 0x76c30000 - 177664 bytes - 4b33115c - file date is 12/23/2009 23:59:40

C:\WINDOWS\system32\imagehlp.dll   , loaded at 0x76c90000 - 144384 bytes - 4802a0d8 - file date is 4/14/2008 05:41:56

C:\WINDOWS\system32\DNSAPI.dll     , loaded at 0x76f20000 - 149504 bytes - 4d6f3b57 - file date is 3/2/2011 23:55:20

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WLDAP32.dll    , loaded at 0x76f60000 - 172032 bytes - 4802a12e - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:10

C:\WINDOWS\system32\CLBCATQ.DLL    , loaded at 0x76fd0000 - 498688 bytes - 4802a0b9 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:50

C:\WINDOWS\system32\COMRes.dll     , loaded at 0x77050000 - 792064 bytes - 4802a0ce - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:52

C:\WINDOWS\system32\oleaut32.dll   , loaded at 0x77120000 - 551936 bytes - 4d0f931f - file date is 12/20/2010 10:32:16

C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.6028_x-ww_61e65202\comctl32.dll, loaded at 0x773d0000 - 1054208 bytes - 4c729dd1 - file date is 8/23/2010 09:12:02

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll      , loaded at 0x774e0000 - 1288192 bytes - 4c404b23 - file date is 7/16/2010 05:05:56

C:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll    , loaded at 0x77a80000 - 599040 bytes - 4802a0d7 - file date is 4/14/2008 05:41:52

C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll     , loaded at 0x77b20000 - 58880 bytes - 4aa180a8 - file date is 9/4/2009 14:03:36

C:\WINDOWS\system32\apphelp.dll    , loaded at 0x77b40000 - 125952 bytes - 4802a0bf - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:50

C:\WINDOWS\system32\midimap.dll    , loaded at 0x77bd0000 - 18944 bytes - 4802a0ec - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:58

C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSACM32.dll    , loaded at 0x77be0000 - 71680 bytes - 4802a117 - file date is 4/13/2008 17:11:58

C:\WINDOWS\system32\version.dll    , loaded at 0x77c00000 - 18944 bytes - 4802a11d - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:10

C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll     , loaded at 0x77c10000 - 343040 bytes - 4802a188 - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:02

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll   , loaded at 0x77dd0000 - 617472 bytes - 49901d48 - file date is 2/9/2009 05:10:48

C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll     , loaded at 0x77e70000 - 590848 bytes - 4c68fa8c - file date is 8/16/2010 01:45:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll      , loaded at 0x77f10000 - 286720 bytes - 49006fbe - file date is 10/23/2008 05:36:14

C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll    , loaded at 0x77f60000 - 474112 bytes - 4b1e1b10 - file date is 12/8/2009 02:23:28

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll    , loaded at 0x77fe0000 - 56832 bytes - 4a433476 - file date is 6/25/2009 01:25:26

C:\WINDOWS\system32\urlmon.dll     , loaded at 0x78130000 - 1211904 bytes - 4db59d20 - file date is 4/25/2011 09:11:12

C:\Program Files\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\MSVCR70.dll, loaded at 0x7c000000 - 344064 bytes - 3c36e574 - file date is 8/14/2003 18:08:58

C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll   , loaded at 0x7c800000 - 989696 bytes - 49c4f482 - file date is 3/21/2009 07:06:58

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll      , loaded at 0x7c900000 - 718336 bytes - 4d00f27d - file date is 12/9/2010 08:15:10

C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll    , loaded at 0x7c9c0000 - 8462336 bytes - 4d399bd5 - file date is 1/21/2011 07:44:38

C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll     , loaded at 0x7e410000 - 578560 bytes - 4802a11b - file date is 4/14/2008 05:42:10

So, any info you can glean from these, I would be most appreciative!!

@ ORCACommander, check the year again; 27 Jun of last year! Yeah, I sometimes forget its 2011 already, too...

-DS

[ORCACommander]

no i meant this year but i did not realize you were using a card that old. IIRC about that time last year was when they dropped support for a bunch of older cards with the new driver releases. Ok have you tried setting the core affinity to just use 1 core?

[Duke of Shao]

@ ORCACommander: Wow, didn't realize the Quadro FX 3700M (1024 mb VRAM) was old already (or at least not "that old"!). All right, then, apologies for the quip. I imagine I would set the card to use 1 core via the Nvidia control panel? (I'll check for some online refs, too).

Oh, did I mention, tho, that I was able to play the 1.0 version just fine? I think that is what I find weird about this!

Thanks, DS

Ps. Thanks to Geoffs for fixing my tags... yeah, couldn't remember which to use for long stuff!

[TON_Viper]

Try and see if you get better results using one of the drivers at http://www.laptopvideo2go.com

They edit the drivers so that even the newest drivers can be installed no matter which nvidia card you have. It is mainly intended for laptop cards, since laptop developers are notoriously slow at supplying driver updates on their own.

[ORCACommander]

no i meant processor cores. only way i know to do it is through the task manager process list which might make things difficult since it is crashing so quickly.

[Duke of Shao]

@ TON_Viper: Ok, will give the drivers a try.

@ ORCACommander: Oh, understood. Yes, it is crashing really quickly, so working through the Task Manager may be really difficult as you suggest. I have a Quad Core processor, so you may be right that this is part of the problem. But I guess folks haven't had trouble with their Core2 Duo processors, though, right?

Sorry all, just trying to figure this out so I can play... must destroy enemy fleet!!!

-DS


To Moderators: if someone could fix my spelling of "wierd" to weird that would be great... it's driving me crazy!!

[TON_Viper]

Unless it is in someone else's quote of your post, you shouldn't have a problem editing the post. There should be an edit post button in the lower right corner of the post next to the reply button.

*edit* oh, you mean in the thread title. I think you can edit that too, but I'm not entirely sure if I'm thinking of another forum in that.

[GeoffS]

To Moderators: if someone could fix my spelling of "wierd" to weird that would be great... it's driving me crazy!!

You can edit the thread title on the advanced editing screen. Edit your opening post and click the "Go Advanced" button.