NEW! Fix For Access violation in WARCRAFT III

[dennis]

ok guys, ,after much of the testing and following blizzard help support
website everything didn't work. But 1 day i was tweaking my hd and the whole
thing was spoiled so i changed to an old harddisk and guess what, warcraft
worked without a hitch.
my spoiled hard drive is a maxtor 40 gig hard drive, i am positively sure
that is the root of the error as i have another friend who runs warcraft 3
with the maxtor drive in the pc and it gave out access violation errors
ps: warcraft 3 still crashed when i installed in in another physical drive
with the maxtor hard drive still in the system. so i suggest removing the
hard disk. As for fix for playing the game with maxtor hard disk, i have no
idea. hope it helps you by reading this post.

[Thomas]

"dennis" <ds...@starhub.net.sg> wrote in message
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What make and size was the old drive? Did the new drive have any bad sectors
or corrupted data?

[softlion]

I've got the same problem.
WarIII is on a "2 maxtor using raid striping" drive
and crashes while verifying that the CD is in the drive.
the only way to fix this I found is to use the CD launcher to
start the OR to make the CD drive spin before launching
the game.

I've also fixed the crashes in the middle of the games:
I just lower the "aggressive memory settings" in the bios.
That's strange because it has never happened when playing the game alone
(happened only on BNet).
SO I still think it's a WarIII Bug.
I tried WarIII using Direct9 beta 2 and it crashes much more (always in the
same
DLL at the same address).
Using beta 1 it seems to work ok.
Using DX8.1 I've bugs is another software.

sL.

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[dennis]

my maxtor was running fine with other games, all worked without a hitch
except for wc3, i guess it could be a maxtor problem with wc3. im trying to
see if all the crashes are related to maxtor now, if u have a crash , pls
state whether if you have a maxtor hard drive, i think 1 am close to getting
to the root of the problem

[Jakob]

Have 2 maxtor 80 gig drives, one is fluid, other isn't. Have spontaneous
reboots totally at random. Just replaced memory which didn't solve the
problem

[Go Go]

Same here. I have 2 X 40 GB Maxtor at Raid 0 configuration. It used to
crash and reboot all the time. Now it either gives me "Could not find map"
error on battle.net or access violation/data corruption on wc3.exe or
SadMelody.mp3 from time to time.

And no, it's not data corruption. I installed WC3 4 times. Always the same
error. I just need to reboot the computer.

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[Nicolas Fournier]

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Same here, Maxtor 40GB 5200 and a lot of crashes and reboots with
wIII. I was never able to reproduce problem with other games. Is
blizzard tech support aware of this ???

[Juliusz 'Julas' Gonera]

Nicolas Fournier wrote:

> Same here, Maxtor 40GB 5200 and a lot of crashes and reboots with
> wIII. I was never able to reproduce problem with other games. Is
> blizzard tech support aware of this ???

Thanks to God I didn't buy Maxtor, but Barracuda IV :)

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[Adam Brown]

I as well have a maxtor 5200.

I hope that could be the problem, for the reasons of finding the problem.

I do not hope its the problem, cause ill be damn'd if I gotta buy a new HD.

adam

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[Splitskull]

I got maxtors in both my comps and wc3 runs smooth.. no problemo

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[Steven Ung]

"Adam Brown" <ac-b...@attbi.com> wrote in message
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> I as well have a maxtor 5200.
>
> I hope that could be the problem, for the reasons of finding the problem.
> I do not hope its the problem, cause ill be damn'd if I gotta buy a new
HD.

I'm not sure if this is a problem, but it is worth the try. In the BIOS,
there is a setting to set the 'smart drive' (or something similiar) on,
right? Mine is set to off, but if yours is set to off, you might want to try
to set it to ON.

When the PC boots up, you can normally see this after the POST message.

Another thing to look for is bad sectors. You might want to run a thorough
system scandisk to check for those.

On the software point of view, try disabling (clean installation of Windows
and WC3 would be prefered) all processes that is running in background.
These includes ZoneAlarm, Anti-Virus checker etc.
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