ctl3d32.dll or ctl3dv2.dll?
Alexander Anderson
That is the question,
I just installed NT4, well this is the 2nd attempt, in fact.
I installed two 3.1/95 programs that frigged around with ctl3d*.dll:
( One was called Turnpike version 3, a mail/news reader. The other
was Ed for Windows 3.55, a programmer's editor. )
Just before that installed Paint Shop Pro 4.1 for 95/NT. It was
working fine. After I installed the other two, PSP no longer worked,
and I just *know* it's to do with these blasted "ctl" dlls.
-- I don't want to re-install yet again!
The only thing PSP made a backup of, was ctl3d32.dll (14-Jun-95
1:46am, 27,136 bytes). However, there's a ctl3d32.dll in
C:\WINNT\system32 of exactly the same details.
Hmm...
However, The Turnpike and Ed4W frigged around with a ctl3dv2.dll and
maybe a (ctl3d.dll?). One of them (I'm not superhuman!) took it out of
\system32 and added an older one into \system. This fucks up both apps,
and they both give a message saying they can't find CTL3DV2.DLL.
Having got completely confused about the "ctl"s on my previous NT4
intallation attempt, I re-installed NT4 all over again. And checked out
that in fact ctl3dv2.dll starts out in \system32.
FORTUNATELY, correcting the mistake that would ge generated (by
placing a 1996 ctl3dv2.dll into \system32), the above apps, freshly
installed again, *now work* (tada!!!). In fact, I popped their versions
of ctl3dv2.dll (and ctl3d.dll?) in a sub-folder in \system, and they
still work fine.
UNFORTUNATELY, PSP, which I installed just before these two, now *no
longer works*! Just a while back, it used to give a cryptic error,
something like:
Failed to start...blah...error...0Xc0000005...
But on re-booting, PSP just doesn't do anything now. So I wrote
this instead.
Please, can anyone shed some light on all this?
Sandy
P.S. Email me direct if this is all old hat. I have a final year
project to do, like, yesterday.
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J. David Bryan
On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 05:19:30 +0100 in article
<nu$FrGAST...@almide.demon.co.uk>, sa...@almide.demon.co.uk wrote...
>
> Please, can anyone shed some light on all this?
See if getting the newest CTL3D*.DLLs helps. They're at:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/MSDN/NewUp/ctl231.zip
CTL3D.DLL is the "original" 16-bit 3-D control library.
CTL3DV2.DLL is the "revised" 16-bit library. It will only run from the
"Windows system" directory and will complain if it finds itself elsewhere.
CTL3D32.DLL is the 32-bit library.
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-- Dave Bryan
dbr...@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us
Alexander Anderson
In message <01BBB5B3.3A13CC10@OCS2315>, Tom Holstrom <tho...@oc.com>
writes
>I have had the same experience where Cafe and other applications inadvertently
>copy what appears to be the 95 versions of ctl3dv2.dll & ctl3d32.dll to the
>SYSTEM32 folder.. I have done as you and just copied the NT compatible version
>from my NT4 CD to SYSTEM32 and things are fine... InstallShield 3.0 installer
>does the same thing....
Dear Tom Holstrom,
How did you do this selectively from the CD?
I reinstalled for the third time yesterday. I didn't "install" the
Ed for Windows (file editor), I just made a link to the exe.
Everything was just dandy:
Ed for Windows was working
Turnpike (the thing I'm using now), superb
Paint Shop Pro, fine
mIRC, AOK
Symantec Cafe, great
Aha, I thought, plain sailing at last.
Then I installed Netscape 2.02 Gold.
...Wait for it...
PSP, mIRC, Cafe now all give 0xc0000005 Dr. Watson errors. Netscape
doesn't run either, and when I try to add/remove Netscape, it hangs half
way through uninstalling.
I'm thinking of reinstalling yet again, but someone may answer this.
I'm also going to procrastinate by reading various NT newsgroups. I
just downloaded 900-odd newsletters.
Sandy
Alexander Anderson
In article <AJ1tFJAt...@almide.demon.co.uk>, Alexander Anderson
<sa...@almide.demon.co.uk> writes
>Dear Tom Holstrom,
It wasn't after all ctl3d* that was the real problem, although it
was a problem.
Whenever I install Soundblaster Pro 16 as a sound device, I get
0xc0000005 errors, reliably.
Does anyone experience this kind of thing, and what did you do about
it?
Right now, there's no sounds, except for the occasional clicking
from the hard disks.
Sandy
--
Alexander Anderson