GR Crashes to desktop

[cerna_j]

I have AMD 2.4 and the A BIT motherboard with NForce 2 chicpset (NF7-S). I have an MSI Geforce 4 420TI. I have the new nvidia drivers 40.71. When I install Ghost recon and then try to launch it it immeditately crashes back to the desktop. Any ideas please?

Regards

Jurgen

[cerna_j]

Here is a copy of the Ikecrash maybe it can help:

GhostRecon caused an Access Violation in module GhostRecon.exe at 001b:0071c7bb.

Exception handler called in Main Thread.

Error occurred at 3/23/2003 08:23:06.

C:\Program Files\Red Storm Entertainment\Ghost Recon\GhostRecon.exe, run by Cerna.

1 processor(s), type 586.

1024 MBytes physical memory.

Read from location 00000029 caused an access violation.

Registers:

EAX=00000029 CS=001b EIP=0071c7bb EFLGS=00090296

EBX=00000000 SS=0023 ESP=0012fb74 EBP=0107b090

ECX=01610910 DS=0023 ESI=00000014 FS=003b

EDX=0124a0c4 ES=0023 EDI=00000029 GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

8b 10 56 8b b1 d4 94 00 00 6a 03 6a 00 56 8b b1

Stack trace:

0071C7BB: GhostRecon.exe! <no symbol>, <no file>, <no line>

007DCFCC: GhostRecon.exe! <no symbol>, <no file>, <no line>

0042E580: GhostRecon.exe! <no symbol>, <no file>, <no line>

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

C:\WINDOWS\System32\d3d8thk.dll, loaded at 0x00320000 - 8192 bytes - 3df82460 - file date is 12/12/2002 00:14:32

C:\Program Files\Red Storm Entertainment\Ghost Recon\GhostRecon.exe, loaded at 0x00400000 - 4874240 bytes - 31313931 - file date is 3/23/2003 08:23:00

C:\WINDOWS\System32\d3d8.dll, loaded at 0x00920000 - 1177600 bytes - 3dedc941 - file date is 12/12/2002 00:14:32

C:\WINDOWS\System32\rsaenh.dll, loaded at 0x0ffd0000 - 133632 bytes - 3ccdcab0 - file date is 8/28/2002 22:27:32

C:\WINDOWS\System32\DSOUND.dll, loaded at 0x51080000 - 355328 bytes - 3dedc968 - file date is 12/12/2002 00:14:32

C:\WINDOWS\System32\uxtheme.dll, loaded at 0x5ad70000 - 203264 bytes - 3d6df9da - file date is 8/29/2002 03:41:18

C:\WINDOWS\System32\umdmxfrm.dll, loaded at 0x5b0a0000 - 13312 bytes - 3b7dfeb9 - file date is 8/23/2001 13:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\System32\serwvdrv.dll, loaded at 0x5cd70000 - 14848 bytes - 3b7dfebb - file date is 8/23/2001 13:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\System32\DINPUT8.dll, loaded at 0x6ce10000 - 168960 bytes - 3d6dfa10 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:40:50

C:\WINDOWS\System32\WS2HELP.dll, loaded at 0x71aa0000 - 18944 bytes - 3b7dfe32 - file date is 8/23/2001 13:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\System32\WS2_32.dll, loaded at 0x71ab0000 - 75264 bytes - 3b7dfe31 - file date is 8/23/2001 13:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\System32\WSOCK32.dll, loaded at 0x71ad0000 - 21504 bytes - 3b7dfe31 - file date is 8/23/2001 13:00:00

C:\Program Files\Red Storm Entertainment\Ghost Recon\DBGHELP.dll, loaded at 0x72a00000 - 163088 bytes - 3af32067 - file date is 8/10/2001 09:27:10

C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSCTF.dll, loaded at 0x74720000 - 266752 bytes - 3d6dfa10 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:41:02

C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll, loaded at 0x762a0000 - 51200 bytes - 3b7dfe16 - file date is 8/23/2001 13:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll, loaded at 0x762c0000 - 557568 bytes - 3d6dfa1c - file date is 8/29/2002 03:40:50

C:\WINDOWS\System32\WINMM.dll, loaded at 0x76b40000 - 171520 bytes - 3d6dfa20 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:41:18

C:\WINDOWS\System32\WINTRUST.dll, loaded at 0x76c30000 - 166912 bytes - 3b7dfe12 - file date is 8/23/2001 13:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMAGEHLP.dll, loaded at 0x76c90000 - 126976 bytes - 3d6dfa21 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:40:56

C:\WINDOWS\System32\Secur32.dll, loaded at 0x76f90000 - 52224 bytes - 3d6dfa22 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:41:12

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll, loaded at 0x771b0000 - 1169920 bytes - 3d6dfa22 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:41:10

C:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll, loaded at 0x77c00000 - 16384 bytes - 3b7dfe0f - file date is 8/23/2001 13:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVCRT.dll, loaded at 0x77c10000 - 323072 bytes - 3d6dfa27 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:41:08

C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll, loaded at 0x77c70000 - 250368 bytes - 3d6dfa27 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:40:56

C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll, loaded at 0x77d40000 - 560128 bytes - 3d6dfa28 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:41:18

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll, loaded at 0x77dd0000 - 558080 bytes - 3d6dfa28 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:40:48

C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll, loaded at 0x77e60000 - 930304 bytes - 3d6dfa28 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:41:00

C:\WINDOWS\System32\ntdll.dll, loaded at 0x77f50000 - 668672 bytes - 3d6dfa28 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:40:42

C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll, loaded at 0x78000000 - 530432 bytes - 3d6dfa29 - file date is 8/29/2002 03:41:10

regards

jurgen

[Sgt. Slaughter]

Do you have any mods activated? If so which ones?

[Urban_Tiger]

The onboard VGA Chipset is definitely disabled in the BIOS with you installing an actual AGP card presumably???

Many forget to disable the onboard stuff when they plug an AGP card in lol, not patronising you, just checking lol !