AOR: Crash DOS/4GW Page Fault
Joseph Poulin
Anybody have any ideas on what to do? Ever time I try to start
the game I get;
'DOS/4GW error (2001): exception 0Eh (page fault),'
and a screenful of registers. It never gets protected mode
started, it doesn't reach the game startup. The strange thing is that
I've been playing the demo for a while now and it worked fine.
I'm using Win/95 on a Pentium/90. I've tried it from DOS mode and
just in Win/95. Same thing happened each time.
Thanks in advance,
Joe Poulin
Lou
I had this problem every time I tried to use a protected run time game. At first we
thought it was a memory address conflict, but after eliminating everything else, it
turned out that I had a failing video card. Once I put a new card in, everything worked
fine again.
Good luck.
Lou
TVspace
>
> Anybody have any ideas on what to do? Ever time I try to start
> the game I get;
>
> 'DOS/4GW error (2001): exception 0Eh (page fault),'
>
> and a screenful of registers. It never gets protected mode
> started, it doesn't reach the game startup. The strange thing is that
> I've been playing the demo for a while now and it worked fine.
>
> I'm using Win/95 on a Pentium/90. I've tried it from DOS mode
and
> just in Win/95. Same thing happened each time.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Joe Poulin
Have you gotten the 1.01 patch yet? I used to get this same error (but
after the title sequence, actually) frequently and have not seen it since
I patched the game.
>I had this problem every time I tried to use a protected run time game.
At first we
>thought it was a memory address conflict, but after eliminating
everything else, it
>turned out that I had a failing video card. Once I put a new card in,
everything >worked
>fine again.
I would investigate all possible software problems before I went out and
bought a new video card.
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Norm Koger
>> Anybody have any ideas on what to do? Ever time I try to start
>> the game I get;
>>
>> 'DOS/4GW error (2001): exception 0Eh (page fault),'
This is typically caused by a problem in the sound card
setup. You might try running the sound card installer again,
selecting the parameters (addresses, etc.) manually rather
than depending upon the auto detect (which seems to have
trouble with some cards).
Regards,
Norm
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Thomas W. Davie
>>> Anybody have any ideas on what to do? Ever time I try to start
>>> the game I get;
>>>
>>> 'DOS/4GW error (2001): exception 0Eh (page fault),'
> This is typically caused by a problem in the sound card
>setup. You might try running the sound card installer again,
>selecting the parameters (addresses, etc.) manually rather
>than depending upon the auto detect (which seems to have
>trouble with some cards).
I found this out yesterday. For some reason, AOR stopped working as a
desktop shortcut on my system. So, I started messing about with the
settings in a DOS window. Oh yeah, forgot I had turned off the SB16 for
some reason. Turned it back on. Couldn't see anything which would cause a
crash. Went back to the desktop, hoping it would work. It did. So, I went
back to the DOS window, turned off my soundcard, and guess what...it
bombed again :) It crashes with a 'granular page fault'? Thats the ONLY
crash I've ever had with the full game. This on a P60/8Mb system.
Tom