fitzgerald_ed on 26/10/2006 at 14:59
Quote Posted by Vigil
What are your computer specs, by the way?
Samsung M55 Laptop. Dual core Centrino 2Ghz, 1GB Ram, Gforce 7600 Go 250mb.
On a further note have noticed a possible connection between things running in the background (e.g. Bittorrent) and more frequent random crashes. Will experiment...
EDIT - After a bit of tinkering I have found that stuff running in the background does not affect the crashes after all. However Bittorrent (more specifically BitComet) did seem to make the screen flicker around the edges when Mode 0x13 support was enabled in DgVoodoo....odd!
demagogue on 3/11/2006 at 01:09
I'm not sure if I understand everything that was discussed above, but I don't think I saw the problem I'm having (and am worried it may be something just obvious I missed, but since it's supposed to be just plug-and-play I don't think so). Anyway, when I double click the !start.exe I get a dos screen with appropriate looking text quickly followed by this pop-up error:
Quote:
16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem
!START.EXE
X#=OD, CD=01A7 IP=000014D1. The NTVDM CPU has encountered an unhandled exception. Chose 'Close' to terminate the application. [Close] [Ignore]
Htting ignore just makes the error return.
I get the same error whether I run it with VDMS or not (if that matters).
If I hit the shortcut, I get this error:
Quote:
C:\games\Shock\!START.PIF
Invalid program file name, please check your pif file. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.
It almost gives me the impression that I just got a bad download, since that happens sometimes when I download on my memorychip to carry over to my harddrive. But it's happened twice now, so I'm bringing it up here.
My system is: Dell Inspiron 5100 Laptop; Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66 GHz; 400 MB RAM; Mobility Radeon 7500
Kolya on 3/11/2006 at 01:41
Just to clear this up, the !START.exe invokes:
Code:
MOUSE2KV.EXE 640 480 8 8 cdshock.exe
VDMS should have nothing to do with it. (It's not used in the current version.)
NTVDM is the (
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314106) NT-Virtual DOS-Machine.
demagogue on 3/11/2006 at 03:25
Thanks for the quick reply!
I looked through the page on NTVDM and it's really all looking like Greek to me right now. Do you have any ideas about what sort of ball-park my problem is even in? This sort of thing really isn't my field, you see.
- Is it that there is some issue with the NTVDM dos shell by itself (and no one else has this problem because NTVDM is incredibly rarely used?)? Is there some way I don't even have to use it and still run the program?
- or is it some particularly idiosyncratic configuration I happen to have set up for it on my PC (unbeknownst to me) that other people don't have and that isn't grokking with this program? Is there an easy way to figure that out?
- or is the error message ambiguous enough that it's not really clear what's going on?
I did some searches using the key terms in the error message, but nothing is really clicking yet. I'll do some more research, but I was just wondering if anyone had any hints as to what sort of ballpark of a problem I'm even dealing with, because I'm really figuring this out as I go.
Nameless_Voice on 3/11/2006 at 08:13
Quote Posted by Kolya
Just to clear this up, the !START.exe invokes:
Code:
MOUSE2KV.EXE 640 480 8 8 cdshock.exe
You could try running this manually instead of using !START.exe. Might be worth a shot.
Kolya on 3/11/2006 at 14:20
Sorry, Demagogue, I don't have a better idea than you what that error means. NTVDM is certainly needed to run DOS programs in winXP. If there's a bug with it you should be able to find this out by following the test procedure in the article I linked to.
Apart from that try to run cdshock.exe directly and tell us what happened.
solaris on 12/11/2006 at 19:19
Hey Kolya
Thanx for your effort. SS1 runs, but without sound.
I installed VDMSound manually, but that didn't help.
I'm on win2k.
Cheers
PS: as soon as ss1 portable works perfectly you can start working on ss1 portable for Vista ;)
demagogue on 12/11/2006 at 21:13
Quote Posted by Kolya
try to run cdshock.exe directly and tell us what happened.
3rd Nov 2006 03:13
For the record, I get the same error ("unhandled exception") when I run cdshock.exe directly. And I didn't see any errors running the NTVDM diagnostic.
I don't have time to dig into the problem now, though. I'll have to come back to it someday. Maybe by then I'll have a new computer, anyway.
Nameless Voice on 15/11/2006 at 00:33
Excellent, it seem to work like a charm!
It was going insanely slow until I set the refresh rate in DGVesa from 75Hz to 60Hz, but I suspect that's just because I was running it on my laptop, which obviously has a TFT screen and only uses (and, I think, supports?) a refresh rate of 60Hz.
