Star Wars Empire at war Exception error
 

Hi there i allways get this error , even with the 1.02 patch and reinstall, changing the compatability mode etc ....

This comes after the movie scenes:

Exception in thread C64 - Main Thread
Exception code EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access.
Attempt to read from address 00000018

Exception occurred at 0042E3CA - Unknown code pointer

Stack walk:
00000000 : Unknown

Register dump:
Eip:0042E3CA Esp:0022EBFC Ebp:00000000
Eax:00000000 Ebx:00000000 Ecx:00002710
Edx:00000000 Esi:08809C98 Edi:0022EE9C
EFlags:00210206
CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003b GS:0000

Bytes at CS:EIP (0042E3CA): 8B 48 18 E8 1E C0 16 00 8B 0D F8 FF BB 00 8B 49 1C 55 E8 9F E0 16 00 B9 C8 FF BB 00 E8 75 7F 14 00 E8 50 7A 10 00 8B 35 F8 FF BB 00 B9 C8 FF BB 00 89 74 24 10 E8 6C 8A 14 00 84 C0 0F 84 72 01

Stack Dump:


Anyone can help me ?
tks

r u playing with the original dvd/cd or r u using a backup???

backup dvd

Well, then try with the original, too. Also, there are a few more ideas in the FAQ you may want to try.

I've not had the problems that you have had ride_hard.
All I can think of is that- a) your DVD backup is missing the proper emulation on it or b) possibly could be something to do with your graphics card.

I'm not too sure though so dont hold me to it :)

ive got a Nvidia ti 4400 geforce 4. :P

What does the requirements say at the back of the box?


EDIT: Ill tell you what it says


Graphics Card: 32 MB graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting (T&L) capability


The Ti does have T&L but not Hardware its software based, i.e. your card is not good enough for the game.

NV17 is Geforce 3 :D - NV25 Geforce Ti Series

Source: http://www.digit-life.com/articles/gf4/index1.html

the t&l unit is NOT software based

http://www.empire-at-war.com/game/system/

There is T&L and there is HT&L

There a lot of games that says that need Hardware T&L or DX 9.0 c compliant card to run and lots on cards that don't have this requieremnts and run fine on them

POP 3 and Dragonshard run fine on my crappy geforce 4 mx and i don't even have pixel shaders when the boxes of the games states that

GeForce 1 and beyond used Hardware Transform and Lighting.

Do they really?

According to e.g. http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/s...s&Number=74043 and http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_20020109_4391.html , yes, they really do.

They have T&L but are they truly hardware, aha :P

Dunno, didn't dig that deep... :p