GR Won't run on XP

[E2-Shadow 0]

Has anyone been able to get GR to run on XP?

I installed all of the 3 discs; it wouldn't run.

I uninstalled everything, and then reinstalled just GR. It won't run.

I have XP updated. All of my drivers are updated. Dx9.3 or whatever. Am I missing something???

This really sucks!

I have nVidia 128mb card. It used to run GR just fine years ago. I can run other games like America's Army etc.

I just wanted to play this old beaut a few more times before Vista gets loaded up and I'm sure none of these old games will ever run on it.

Here's my log. Hopefully people still come here to check these posts out...

GHOSTR~1 caused an Access Violation in module GHOSTR~1.EXE at 001b:00000000.

Exception handler called in Main Thread.

Error occurred at 10/7/2007 20:39:38.

C:\PROGRA~1\REDSTO~1\GHOSTR~1\GHOSTR~1.EXE, run by Bhaltair.

1 processor(s), type 586.

1023 MBytes physical memory.

Read from location 00000000 caused an access violation.

Registers:

EAX=010a7234 CS=001b EIP=00000000 EFLGS=00010202

EBX=00000000 SS=0023 ESP=0013f2e0 EBP=01101850

ECX=010a7320 DS=0023 ESI=010ef6e0 FS=003b

EDX=010a00e8 ES=0023 EDI=011018d4 GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

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Stack trace:

00000000: GhostRecon.exe! <no symbol>, <no file>, <no line>

1006EE46: ffdshow.ax! DllUnregisterServer, <no file>, <no line>

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

C:\PROGRA~1\REDSTO~1\GHOSTR~1\GHOSTR~1.EXE, loaded at 0x00400000 - 4874240 bytes - 31313931 - file date is 10/1/2001 09:48:04

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Normaliz.dll, loaded at 0x04040000 - 23552 bytes - 44a3ec46 - file date is 6/29/2006 09:05:44

C:\PROGRA~1\K-LITE~1\filters\vsfilter.dll, loaded at 0x05440000 - 958464 bytes - 445feff2 - file date is 10/1/2006 13:26:50

C:\PROGRA~1\K-LITE~1\ffdshow\LIBMPL~1.DLL, loaded at 0x05940000 - 389120 bytes - 44c54323 - file date is 7/25/2006 00:01:08

C:\WINDOWS\system32\rsaenh.dll, loaded at 0x0ffd0000 - 152576 bytes - 40eb5d28 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ffdshow.ax, loaded at 0x10000000 - 1761280 bytes - 416b7dc4 - file date is 10/12/2004 15:46:32

C:\PROGRA~1\Bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll, loaded at 0x16080000 - 94208 bytes - 4404b5b5 - file date is 2/28/2006 12:42:30

C:\WINDOWS\system32\xpsp2res.dll, loaded at 0x20000000 - 2897920 bytes - 411096b9 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\iertutil.dll, loaded at 0x42990000 - 267776 bytes - 46827590 - file date is 6/27/2007 07:34:56

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WININET.dll, loaded at 0x42c10000 - 823808 bytes - 46827592 - file date is 6/27/2007 07:35:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINHTTP.dll, loaded at 0x4d4f0000 - 351232 bytes - 411096d3 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\UxTheme.dll, loaded at 0x5ad70000 - 218624 bytes - 411096bb - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\netapi32.dll, loaded at 0x5b860000 - 332288 bytes - 44e460eb - file date is 8/17/2006 05:28:28

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ShimEng.dll, loaded at 0x5cb70000 - 65536 bytes - 411096ba - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\comctl32.dll, loaded at 0x5d090000 - 617472 bytes - 44ef1b36 - file date is 8/25/2006 08:45:58

C:\WINDOWS\system32\mslbui.dll, loaded at 0x605d0000 - 25088 bytes - 4110972f - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\HID.DLL, loaded at 0x688f0000 - 20992 bytes - 4110969c - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\DINPUT8.dll, loaded at 0x6ce10000 - 181760 bytes - 411096b0 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8thk.dll, loaded at 0x6d990000 - 8192 bytes - 41109692 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8.dll, loaded at 0x6d9a0000 - 1179648 bytes - 41109692 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AcGenral.DLL, loaded at 0x6f880000 - 1852416 bytes - 4110968e - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AcLayers.DLL, loaded at 0x71590000 - 450048 bytes - 4110968f - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\System32\mswsock.dll, loaded at 0x71a50000 - 245248 bytes - 41109758 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2HELP.dll, loaded at 0x71aa0000 - 19968 bytes - 411096f3 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll, loaded at 0x71ab0000 - 82944 bytes - 411096f2 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WSOCK32.dll, loaded at 0x71ad0000 - 22528 bytes - 411096ff - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\DINPUT.dll, loaded at 0x72280000 - 159232 bytes - 411096af - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\SensApi.dll, loaded at 0x722b0000 - 6656 bytes - 411096ac - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\PROGRA~1\REDSTO~1\GHOSTR~1\DBGHELP.dll, loaded at 0x72a00000 - 163088 bytes - 3af32067 - file date is 8/10/2001 09:27:10

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 - 411096c6 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINSPOOL.DRV, loaded at 0x73000000 - 146432 bytes - 411096b6 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\KsUser.dll, loaded at 0x73ee0000 - 4096 bytes - 411096ad - file date is 8/4/2004 00:56:44

C:\WINDOWS\system32\DSOUND.dll, loaded at 0x73f10000 - 367616 bytes - 411096d4 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll, loaded at 0x74720000 - 294400 bytes - 411096ea - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\quartz.dll, loaded at 0x74810000 - 1287168 bytes - 4313d872 - file date is 8/29/2005 20:54:26

C:\WINDOWS\system32\msctfime.ime, loaded at 0x755c0000 - 177152 bytes - 411096eb - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cryptnet.dll, loaded at 0x75e60000 - 63488 bytes - 41109694 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\devenum.dll, loaded at 0x75f40000 - 59904 bytes - 411096a6 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.DLL, loaded at 0x76390000 - 110080 bytes - 411096ae - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\comdlg32.dll, loaded at 0x763b0000 - 276992 bytes - 411096b0 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\USERENV.dll, loaded at 0x769c0000 - 723456 bytes - 411096b9 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINMM.dll, loaded at 0x76b40000 - 176128 bytes - 411096d6 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINTRUST.dll, loaded at 0x76c30000 - 176640 bytes - 411096b9 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMAGEHLP.dll, loaded at 0x76c90000 - 144384 bytes - 411096a9 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Iphlpapi.dll, loaded at 0x76d60000 - 94720 bytes - 446dc13d - file date is 5/19/2006 05:59:42

C:\WINDOWS\system32\rtutils.dll, loaded at 0x76e80000 - 44032 bytes - 411096b4 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\rasman.dll, loaded at 0x76e90000 - 61440 bytes - 411096ad - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\TAPI32.dll, loaded at 0x76eb0000 - 181760 bytes - 411096b6 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Rasapi32.dll, loaded at 0x76ee0000 - 236544 bytes - 411096a9 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\DNSAPI.dll, loaded at 0x76f20000 - 148480 bytes - 44a01b46 - file date is 6/26/2006 10:37:10

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WLDAP32.dll, loaded at 0x76f60000 - 172032 bytes - 411096bb - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\System32\winrnr.dll, loaded at 0x76fb0000 - 16896 bytes - 411096b3 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\rasadhlp.dll, loaded at 0x76fc0000 - 8192 bytes - 44a01b46 - file date is 6/26/2006 10:37:10

C:\WINDOWS\system32\CLBCATQ.DLL, loaded at 0x76fd0000 - 498688 bytes - 42e5be90 - file date is 7/25/2005 21:39:44

C:\WINDOWS\system32\COMRes.dll, loaded at 0x77050000 - 792064 bytes - 411096b4 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\OLEAUT32.dll, loaded at 0x77120000 - 549376 bytes - 464c3c45 - file date is 5/17/2007 04:28:06

C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.2982_x-ww_ac3f9c03\comctl32.dll, loaded at 0x773d0000 - 1054208 bytes - 44ef1b33 - file date is 8/25/2006 08:45:56

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll, loaded at 0x774e0000 - 1285120 bytes - 42e5be93 - file date is 7/25/2005 21:39:48

C:\WINDOWS\system32\SETUPAPI.DLL, loaded at 0x77920000 - 983552 bytes - 411096b0 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll, loaded at 0x77a80000 - 597504 bytes - 41109691 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll, loaded at 0x77b20000 - 57344 bytes - 411096e3 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\apphelp.dll, loaded at 0x77b40000 - 126976 bytes - 411096b4 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\midimap.dll, loaded at 0x77bd0000 - 18944 bytes - 411096a9 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSACM32.dll, loaded at 0x77be0000 - 71680 bytes - 411096cf - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll, loaded at 0x77c00000 - 18944 bytes - 411096b7 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVCRT.dll, loaded at 0x77c10000 - 343040 bytes - 41109752 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\msv1_0.dll, loaded at 0x77c70000 - 129536 bytes - 4110974f - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll, loaded at 0x77dd0000 - 616960 bytes - 411096a7 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll, loaded at 0x77e70000 - 581120 bytes - 411096ae - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll, loaded at 0x77f10000 - 282112 bytes - 4677daa7 - file date is 6/19/2007 06:31:20

C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll, loaded at 0x77f60000 - 474112 bytes - 453ce0fd - file date is 10/23/2006 08:34:22

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll, loaded at 0x77fe0000 - 55808 bytes - 411096c1 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll, loaded at 0x7c800000 - 984576 bytes - 46239bd5 - file date is 4/16/2007 08:52:54

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll, loaded at 0x7c900000 - 708096 bytes - 411096b4 - file date is 8/4/2004 05:00:00

C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll, loaded at 0x7c9c0000 - 8453632 bytes - 45885f0b - file date is 12/19/2006 14:52:18

C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll, loaded at 0x7e410000 - 577536 bytes - 45f02d7c - file date is 3/8/2007 08:36:28

[Hammer 75]

Ok when you unistalled it did you do a regestery clean ?

after you installed it , it may be still trying to read from a old regestery entry. also you say you installed all 3 disc's

are they phisycle discs or iso's?. if you install all 3 discs you only need to install the 1.4 patch as the others are all in the Desert siege disc. that said if you have a newer version on DVD i think the 1.4 patch is included Also which disc are to trying to run the game from?

FYI i have a Vista laptop and it runs GR great

Edited October 8, 2007 by Hammer

[Tinker 1]

You should not need to patch the game to make it run. Patches fix several things, but are not required to start the game.

Only 32Mb card is needed, plus 128Mb Ram.

You may have a corrupt disc or download. Has your version been used before at all?

[thales100 44]

GR runs perfectly on XP and Vista, thats certainly not the problem.

[E2-Shadow 0]

GR runs perfectly on XP and Vista, thats certainly not the problem.

Well I ran GR with IT, DS for over 2 years on this exact machine. I think it was only SP1 though at the time, but who can remember that far back. Exact same video card, exact same everything except now the nVidia card's driver has been upgraded and the direct x is 9.0c instead of 8.

Of course I've ran these games before.

I installed them all and patched to 1.4 and it wouldn't run, so I uninstalled and just installed the GR disc.

I have XP S2. Vista's on my tablet pc, and certainly I'll never be playing any games on that

The disc is not corrupt. The game starts, but when it's time to get past the splash screens it crashes to desktop. When I first installed it with the 2 addons, it ran fine but my monitor won't show 600x480 screens (flickers, always has, only plays 800 resolution and higher with no flicker) so I alt-del and closed it. I uninstalled it after that and reinstalled and it always crashes.

Who knows. SOAF does the same thing if that tells you anything. Crash to desktop.

ALL DRIVERS ARE UPDATED.

[Hammer 75]

GR runs perfectly on XP and Vista, thats certainly not the problem.

Well I ran GR with IT, DS for over 2 years on this exact machine. I think it was only SP1 though at the time, but who can remember that far back. Exact same video card, exact same everything except now the nVidia card's driver has been upgraded and the direct x is 9.0c instead of 8.

Of course I've ran these games before.

I installed them all and patched to 1.4 and it wouldn't run, so I uninstalled and just installed the GR disc.

I have XP S2. Vista's on my tablet pc, and certainly I'll never be playing any games on that

The disc is not corrupt. The game starts, but when it's time to get past the splash screens it crashes to desktop. When I first installed it with the 2 addons, it ran fine but my monitor won't show 600x480 screens (flickers, always has, only plays 800 resolution and higher with no flicker) so I alt-del and closed it. I uninstalled it after that and reinstalled and it always crashes.

Who knows. SOAF does the same thing if that tells you anything. Crash to desktop.

ALL DRIVERS ARE UPDATED.

Again the only thing i can think of is you have a bad registry entry! even though you uninstalled the game, windows uninstaller very often leaves things in the regestry and the new install will not over-right them. So one again i would get on line and find yourself a regestry cleaner like "CCclean" uninstall the game, run CCclean then try to re-install GR and see what happens from there. I think you can find a free version of CCclean at downloads.com

Edited October 10, 2007 by Hammer

[E2-Shadow 0]

Again the only thing i can think of is you have a bad registry entry! even though you uninstalled the game, windows uninstaller very often leaves things in the regestry and the new install will not over-right them. So one again i would get on line and find yourself a regestry cleaner like "CCclean" uninstall the game, run CCclean then try to re-install GR and see what happens from there. I think you can find a free version of CCclean at downloads.com

Well I did run winoptimizer after uninstalling to clean the registry and tried again last night with the same effect happening. I'm at a loss. Thanks for your help.

[KRP 56 92]

After it crashes post the Ike log here so we can take a look. (Not the IkeCrash log)

[Hammer 75]

GR runs perfectly on XP and Vista, thats certainly not the problem.

Well I ran GR with IT, DS for over 2 years on this exact machine. I think it was only SP1 though at the time, but who can remember that far back. Exact same video card, exact same everything except now the nVidia card's driver has been upgraded and the direct x is 9.0c instead of 8.

Of course I've ran these games before.

I installed them all and patched to 1.4 and it wouldn't run, so I uninstalled and just installed the GR disc.

I have XP S2. Vista's on my tablet pc, and certainly I'll never be playing any games on that

The disc is not corrupt. The game starts, but when it's time to get past the splash screens it crashes to desktop. When I first installed it with the 2 addons, it ran fine but my monitor won't show 600x480 screens (flickers, always has, only plays 800 resolution and higher with no flicker) so I alt-del and closed it. I uninstalled it after that and reinstalled and it always crashes.

Who knows. SOAF does the same thing if that tells you anything. Crash to desktop.

ALL DRIVERS ARE UPDATED.

Now you mention above the slash screens ? is that just the RS logo and the intro vid ? or are you talking about the actual screen where you dicide what game type your going to play eg- quick mision, campaian etc etc ?

or do you get past that to the soldier secection screen, pick your team then crash from there ?

Edited October 10, 2007 by Hammer

[Phobos 0]

I have a similar problem with my newer HP laptop. My guess is that the problem is related to the Nvidia graphics chip.

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

That's a site that hacks Nvidia drivers. Maybe you could try an older driver to get GR working.

The only advice I found was that someone had completely reinstalled WinXP and got GR to work again so the problem is bound to be related either to registry or video drivers.

I also noticed that when I start GR it crashes straight away, but the actual .exe runs in the background, so doesn't it seem like the game can't just show the actual image (advice anyone?)

Let me know if you get it working somehow.

[Rocky 1,224]

What Nvidia driver version are you on?

[Phobos 0]

I've tried 163.71 & 163.75 this far and neither of them worked. I'll try some more if I can bother.