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Tri Tion posted 08-31-99 05:52 PM ET
Well, uhm,
at last I'd got around playing Alpha Centauri (v4.0, latest patch, german version) the intensive way (10 hours a day =). The problem, though, the game crashed today after approx. 8 hours of play.
There was a message that production on one of my bases had been successfully completed and that was just it. The game crashed, the cause of failure was in "sound.dll", as far as the task-manager of windows 98 told me.
By the way: My system-configuration is:
Pentium Pro 180, Tyan 1662 mainboard, 128MB EDO Ram, Soundblaster PCI128, Elsa Victory Erazor (Riva 128 chipset), that's about it, I think, at least what concerns the game and system. And last and least Windows 98.
By the way, the latest drivers for my hardware, as well as DirectX 6.1a (latest available update) have been installed.
Hey, I was just stomping Mr. Yang to the ground when this happend, please check this out, will ya?
By the way, sometimes the speech in the game will repeat continuously, sometimes quite distorted. Perhaps this is a problem in your sound routines (in combination with SB PCI 128)?
Bye Carsten
Tri Tion posted 08-31-99 08:09 PM ET
The same error occured once again, after replaying from the last auto save position.
This time I have captured some output:
TERRAN verursachte einen Fehler durch eine ung�ltige Seite
in Modul SOUND.DLL bei 015f:1000987d.
Register:
EAX=000002b0 CS=015f EIP=1000987d EFLGS=00010212
EBX=00000000 SS=0167 ESP=0189fe44 EBP=0189fe54
ECX=00000000 DS=0167 ESI=00000000 FS=0c8f
EDX=0189fe50 ES=0167 EDI=00000158 GS=0000
Bytes bei CS:EIP:
8b 46 4c 33 ff 52 8d 55 f8 89 7d fc 89 7d f8 8b
Stapelwerte:
00000158 02f43204 00000046 00000000 0189fe8c 10024ff5 000002b0 0189fe88 00000000 02f43194 01040750 00000000 02f43194 00000000 00000000 00000000
Hope this helps,
bye.
PS: Perhaps this has something to do with overall playing time? I'm in the year 24xx...hell, before I could write it down, it crashed...
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 09-01-99 10:24 AM ET
It sounds like the game is misdetecting your sound hardware. Try setting the EAX and DS3D entries in the alpha centauri.ini file to 0. If that doesn't work, rename the sound.dll to sound.dl_ to just make sure it's the sound systems problem and not something else.
jkm
firaxis games
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Author	Topic: Crash: sound.dll
Tri Tion	posted 08-31-99 05:52 PM ET Well, uhm, at last I'd got around playing Alpha Centauri (v4.0, latest patch, german version) the intensive way (10 hours a day =). The problem, though, the game crashed today after approx. 8 hours of play. There was a message that production on one of my bases had been successfully completed and that was just it. The game crashed, the cause of failure was in "sound.dll", as far as the task-manager of windows 98 told me. By the way: My system-configuration is: Pentium Pro 180, Tyan 1662 mainboard, 128MB EDO Ram, Soundblaster PCI128, Elsa Victory Erazor (Riva 128 chipset), that's about it, I think, at least what concerns the game and system. And last and least Windows 98. By the way, the latest drivers for my hardware, as well as DirectX 6.1a (latest available update) have been installed. Hey, I was just stomping Mr. Yang to the ground when this happend, please check this out, will ya? By the way, sometimes the speech in the game will repeat continuously, sometimes quite distorted. Perhaps this is a problem in your sound routines (in combination with SB PCI 128)? Bye Carsten
Tri Tion	posted 08-31-99 08:09 PM ET The same error occured once again, after replaying from the last auto save position. This time I have captured some output: TERRAN verursachte einen Fehler durch eine ung�ltige Seite in Modul SOUND.DLL bei 015f:1000987d. Register: EAX=000002b0 CS=015f EIP=1000987d EFLGS=00010212 EBX=00000000 SS=0167 ESP=0189fe44 EBP=0189fe54 ECX=00000000 DS=0167 ESI=00000000 FS=0c8f EDX=0189fe50 ES=0167 EDI=00000158 GS=0000 Bytes bei CS:EIP: 8b 46 4c 33 ff 52 8d 55 f8 89 7d fc 89 7d f8 8b Stapelwerte: 00000158 02f43204 00000046 00000000 0189fe8c 10024ff5 000002b0 0189fe88 00000000 02f43194 01040750 00000000 02f43194 00000000 00000000 00000000 Hope this helps, bye. PS: Perhaps this has something to do with overall playing time? I'm in the year 24xx...hell, before I could write it down, it crashed...
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 09-01-99 10:24 AM ET It sounds like the game is misdetecting your sound hardware. Try setting the EAX and DS3D entries in the alpha centauri.ini file to 0. If that doesn't work, rename the sound.dll to sound.dl_ to just make sure it's the sound systems problem and not something else. jkm firaxis games