Apolyton Archive  |  Preserved copy of the Apolyton Civilization Site and its forums as they stood in September 2005. Read-only; nothing here can be posted to or replied to.  |  Forum index |  About this archive |  The 1998–2001 UBB forums
Today on Apolyton WARDELL INTERVIEW PROMO A.C.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 4 GET CIV4 /w FREE PLUS! A.C.S. PHOTO GALLERY GET A.O.M. V1.1
Apolyton Civilization Forums
main| civ2| civ3| civ4| smac| ctp2| ron| moo3| galciv| galciv2| alt| about|
ApolytonPLUS | register | search | faq | new posts | pm (-/-) | upload | members
hall of fame new! | civgroups | civgroups news | interviews | the column | radio | chat | directory | news | store | PLUS
Apolyton Civilization Forums : Powered by vBulletin version 2.0.3 Apolyton Civilization Forums > Miscellaneous > Archive > CtP2-General/Help/Strategy/Multiplaying-Archive > HELP!!!! Invalid Page Fault running CTP2
Show a Printable Version | Email This Page to Someone! | Receive updates to this thread | Report this to Apolyton news!

bottom of page
  
Author
Thread    < Last Thread     Next Thread > Post New Thread     Post A Reply
DavidWT is offline DavidWT
Settler
Jacksonville, FL, US
Nov 2000
time: 05:14
Unhappy  Old Post 16-11-2000 04:13
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#1 Report this post to a moderator
HELP!!!! Invalid Page Fault running CTP2 Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

I just got home and installed CTP2 and tried to run it and got a page fault!!! I was also getting similar messages trying to run CTP so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, however these are the ONLY games I having this problem with. Anyone have any ideas? And yes, I have the latest 3DFX drivers for my PCI 3DFX 3000 card. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

CTP2 caused an invalid page fault in
module CTP2.EXE at 0177:004a3839.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0177 EIP=004a3839 EFLGS=00210206
EBX=00a19ef8 SS=017f ESP=00d3fd2c EBP=00d3fd58
ECX=032c7c60 DS=017f ESI=032c7c60 FS=12c7
EDX=032c7c5c ES=017f EDI=00e607b0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 48 08 89 0e 8b 15 a8 4a aa 00 8b 42 08 89 46
Stack dump:
00e607b0 00000000 005a49a8 00000000 00d59288 00e61040 032c7c60 00a19f9c 00d3fd8c 007930e1 00000000 00d3fd9c 0040b287 007a4698 00000000 00d3fd8c

Thanks...Dave

MarkG
Guest

Not Yet
time:
Post  Old Post 16-11-2000 04:27
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#2 Report this post to a moderator
Put an end to popups!

do you have the latest directx? see what the cd has on

do you have 32bit color? if yes, go to 16bit

Mr Ogre is offline Mr Ogre
Warlord
Azeroth
Jan 1970
time: 05:14
Post  Old Post 16-11-2000 05:24 Visit Mr Ogre's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#3 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

D'oh. I'm very sad to hear that. I promise if we'd seen any crashes like that in our compatibility lab, it wouldn't have shipped, but of course PCs have an incredible variety of hardware that makes it nearly impossible to try every configuration.

That said, there's a couple of things you can try: First copy \ctp2_data\default\gamedata\profile.txt to \ctp2_program\ctp\userprofile.txt, then in the newly copied userprofile.txt try these things:

a) Change TryWindowsResoultion to No. (It already says no if you opted for the minimum system install). Try running now.

b) If that doesn't work, leave that one as No, and change the ScreenResWidth and ScreenResHeight lines to 800 and 600, respectively, to select the minimum resolution.

c) If that still doesn't work, change your windows desktop to 16-bit color, go to /ctp2_program/ctp, right click ctp2.exe, then create shortcut. Right click the new shortcut, and in the target field, go to the end of the line and add, all one word separated by a space from ctp2.exe, "nonexclusive". This will cause the game to share video memory with your windows desktop, which will cause strange visual effects if you alt-tab out, or otherwise switch to another window, but it may solve your problem.

d) Verify that the movies play: Outside the game, go to /ctp2_data/default/videos and double click any AVI in there. If DXMedia and Indeo5 are installed (both should be installed by Windows for Win98+, but not Win95. In the latter case, CTP2 should have installed them for you. You didn't mention what OS you're using). If those don't play, reinstall the game and have it install DXMedia for you, or install Windows Media Player from Microsoft's site. Not having it shouldn't cause a crash however, it should only cause no movies, or movies with only sound but no video, so I don't think this will be it. I'm just suggesting it since the first thing you would see normally would be the intro movie.

e) If all that fails, there should also be a file named crash.txt generated in /ctp2_program/ctp when the game crashes. Please email me that file. Also go to Start Menu->Run and type "dxdiag" without the quotes and press enter, click Save All Information, and send me that file too, and I should be able to get a better idea of what's wrong. If you don't see a file named crash.txt, add the line "EnableLogs=Yes" to userprofile.txt and try again.

Again, I'm really sorry it failed to work for you, we didn't see any crashes like that here, nor do I remember hearing of any from CTP1. If any of those suggestions work, let me know so I can tell our customer support people. If not, and you send me the two files from step e, and I can see what's wrong and fix it, I'll get you a fixed version to verify it.

DavidWT is offline DavidWT
Settler
Jacksonville, FL, US
Nov 2000
time: 05:14
Unhappy  Old Post 16-11-2000 05:25
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#4 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

I have 16-bit color and Direct x 8.0. I even tried making my system 32-bit color just to try and I got the same thing. I'm so frustrated!!!

...Dave

PS Thanks for any suggestions you may have.

DavidWT is offline DavidWT
Settler
Jacksonville, FL, US
Nov 2000
time: 05:14
Post  Old Post 16-11-2000 05:27
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#5 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Thanks Mr. Ogre. I will try all your suggestions and post again when either successful or not.

...Dave

DavidWT is offline DavidWT
Settler
Jacksonville, FL, US
Nov 2000
time: 05:14
Post  Old Post 16-11-2000 05:56
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#6 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

Tried all suggestions and game still crashes. The AVI's play jsut fine, though, with both video and sound. Emailed Mr. Ogre my crash.txt file and results from dxdiag.

Thanks for any suggestion you may have.

...Dave

PS The videos just whetted my appetite to play this game!!!

culturek is offline culturek
Settler
Clarkston
Nov 2000
time: 05:14
Post  Old Post 16-11-2000 06:39 Visit culturek's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#7 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

quote:

Originally posted by DavidWT on 11-15-2000 07:56 PM
Tried all suggestions and game still crashes. The AVI's play jsut fine, though, with both video and sound. Emailed Mr. Ogre my crash.txt file and results from dxdiag.

Thanks for any suggestion you may have.

...Dave

Try hitting CTRL + ALT + DEL and then closing everything buy Systray and Explorer. This is the bare minimum that the game needs. Sometimes, you'll see that things which are running are causing the problems. Also, are you using a DVD player? If so, are the drivers on that new? Finally, if you have WinDVD....Delete it and try...

Just some suggestions

PS The videos just whetted my appetite to play this game!!!


MarkG
Guest

Not Yet
time:
Post  Old Post 16-11-2000 10:42
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#8 Report this post to a moderator
Tired of ads?

david, which windows do you have?

Drakenred is offline Drakenred
Warlord
Hou Tx
Jan 1970
time: 05:14
Post  Old Post 16-11-2000 12:55
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#9 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

i think i ran into the same problem 2 times, but each time i was able to bypass it by poping the CD out then in, although i aonly got the page fualt 2 times out of 8-9 times i went into the game

Drakenred

DavidWT is offline DavidWT
Settler
Jacksonville, FL, US
Nov 2000
time: 05:14
  Old Post 17-11-2000 08:33
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#10 Report this post to a moderator
Tired of ads?

Well, I decided to just give up trying to fix my system and just reformatted the drive and reinstall everything and NOW CTP2 works just fine. I'm sure it was my system and not the game.

By the way, Mr. Ogre from Activision is a GREAT support person. I told him last night that I would probably just format my drive and reinstall everything and he STILL was looking into my problem today and emailed me tonight with even MORE suggestions! Thanks a LOT for that!

Looking forward to finally sinking my teeth into this game now.

...DAve

  < Last Thread     Next Thread > Post New Thread     Post A Reply
All times are GMT. The time now is 05:14.
Apolyton Time is 00:14.
    top of page
Rate This Thread:
archivepost
Forum Jump:
Forum Rules:
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is ON
vB code is ON
Smilies are ON
[IMG] code is ON
 




Contact Us - Apolyton Civilization Site - Support Us!

Building a better Apolyton through better information. Click here and take our poll!
Non-US visitors, click here!

Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.0.3
Copyright ©2000, 2001, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited.

Page generated in 0.0364 seconds (84.72% PHP - 15.28% MySQL) with 30 queries
Page Loading Time:

Support Apolyton: Amazon USA | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon FR |
Support Apolyton and get FREE PLUS, Buy from Chips&Bits: Galactic Civilizations | Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition | Call to Power 2 | Civilization: The Boardgame | GURPS/ Alpha Centauri | Alpha Centauri | Civilization IV | Civilization III: Complete |


Front Page | Civilization IV | Civilization III | Civilization II | Call to Power II | Alpha Centauri | Master of Orion III
Rise of Nations | Galactic Civilizations | Galactic Civilizations II | Misc
Alt.Civs | Civ I | C:CtP I | About | News | Directory | Apolyton Store | Forums | Chat | Columns | Interviews | Newsletter
Scenario League | CSC | Clash of Civs | Spanish Site | CtP Maps | Cradle of Civ | WesW's Ctp1/2 Site | Civ3 Haven

apolyton.net | apolyton.com | civilization2.net | civilization3.net | civilization4.net | civilizationiv.info | calltopower.net | galciv.net | galciv2.net | moo3.net