#1278 closed defect (worksforme)
ALL: General protection fault on startup
| Reported by: | SF/halfgaar | Owned by: | SF/ender |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Port: Win32 |
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| Cc: | Game: |
Description
When I startup scummvm, I immediatly get a general protection fault. I've tried version 0.5.1 and a snapshot of oktober 21 2003 23:22:42. My OS is Win98 first edition and I use the precompiled version.
This is the exact error: SCUMMVM caused an invalid page fault in module HID.DLL at 015f:7d06170d. Registers: EAX=00000072 CS=015f EIP=7d06170d EFLGS=00010216 EBX=00000072 SS=0167 ESP=009cf44c EBP=009cf68c ECX=006a2ac4 DS=0167 ESI=0000005b FS=2137 EDX=009cf684 ES=0167 EDI=006a4fe8 GS=3bce Bytes at CS:EIP: f6 47 20 04 74 06 66 ff 42 3a eb 04 66 ff 42 3c Stack dump: 000000b8 009cf938 00000000 7000d91b 006a2ac4 009cf684 009cf980 00000000 00000001 81b51a00 81b4da94 bff7dcb6 bff7dcbb 00000000 000000b8 00000000
Ticket imported from: #827560. Ticket imported from: bugs/1278.
Change History (11)
comment:1 by , 20 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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comment:2 by , 20 years ago
comment:3 by , 20 years ago
| Summary: | General protection fault on startup → ALL: General protection fault on startup |
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comment:4 by , 20 years ago
Isn't HID.DLL to do with Human Interface Devices? Do you use a USB mouse, Keyboard or Joystick?
Try running ScummVM with any of the above detached, and see if that fixes it.
Failing that, try this:
1. Place the Windows98 CD in the drive. Go to Start -> Run, then type "SFC" and hit enter. 2. Click 'Extract one file' and enter HID.DLL. Click start. 3. Enter the location of your Win98 CD-ROM in the 'Restore From' field. If your PC is OEM and you don't have a proper CD, try looking in "C:\Windows\Cabs". 'Save file in' should read 'c:\windows\system'. When this is all entered, hit OK. 4. Now it will ask you to back up the HID.DLL file. Write down the directory, then click on OK, then click yes to create the Folder. 5. Now restart your PC and everything should now be OK. Probably.
Hopefully. Google has lots of info about HID.DLL, it seems it cocks up quite a lot.
Cloney
comment:5 by , 20 years ago
I do have HID devices attached to my computer. But disconnecting the mouse is not effective. But I just realized that Windows sees my monitor as HID device as well (it's attached to the USB port). Disconnecting it solves the problem.
It's still somewhat of a kludge-fix to me, and the question remains whether this is scummvm's fault or not. What's more likely, that it's scummvm's fault or something else?
comment:6 by , 20 years ago
Yeah this looks like one of the "normal" joystick crashes.
Please dear original bug poster, test with a current daily build (which can be downloaded from our homepage); they disable joystick support by default. And then tell us whether that fixes the problem or not. Thanks!
comment:7 by , 20 years ago
As I said, I've tried it with a daily build of oktober 21 and version 0.5.1. Just now I tried another daily build. They all crash when my monitor is attached to the system.
comment:8 by , 20 years ago
I discovered something today. PowerDVD also makes an illegal operation in HID.dll. So I guess it's not a problem in SCUMMVM
comment:10 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → worksforme |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:11 by , 5 years ago
| Component: | --Unset-- → Port: Win32 |
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This sounds like a issue specific to your machine.
Unfortunatly I do not know anybody with a Win98 FE installation. I do have access to a Win98SE install, and will test this next week.