Wolf:ET Abnormal Program termination

(Rocco) #1

First I would like to start by apologizing if the answer to this is already posted somewhere in these forums, i tried to search for some info on it but found nothing.

I just purchased a “PNY Verto GeForce FX 5700 LE OPTIMA” 128Meg graphics card and installed it into an AMD Athlon 800 Mhz, running WinXP. Everything seems to work fine until I try and launch Wolfenstein Enemy territory. The game loads, but at some point (it seems to be random) within five minutes of opening the game, I recieve the following error message:

MS Visual C ++ Runtime Library Runtime Error!

C:\Program Files\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\ET.exe

Abnormal Program Termination

Sometimes the ET.exe process will end and I will drop back to my windows dektop. Other times I will recieve a blue screen that referse to nv_disp.dll. I have tried up upgrading to the latest drivers from nvidia, that did not work. I tried upgrading with the latest drivers from the PNY, that did not help. I tried reverting back to the orginal drivers that shipped with the card, that did not work. I tried uninstalling all c++ application that were on my computer, including Microsoft Visual Studio, Webgain, and the microsoft.net framework, still did not resolve the problem. I have found many many many other people witht he same problem as I have, yet no one seems to have found the solution.

(Sauron|EFG) #2

Chipset drivers?

(Rocco) #3

hummm… thats a good idea. I will look and see if I can update my chipset driver tonight and let you know how it turns out. Thanks for the help.

(Rocco) #4

nope upgrading chipset drivers did not work. I really do not think this problem is fixable.

So far I have tried the following with no luck:

  1. upgraded to latest video card drivers
  2. Installed custom video card drivers from manufacturer
  3. reverted to the orginal vid drivers that shipped with my card
  4. Uninstalled MS Visual Studio 6
  5. Uninstalled MS Visual Studio.NET
  6. Uninstalled WebGain(visual C++ compiler)
  7. Uninstalled microsoft .NET framework
  8. Uninstall and reinstall ET.
  9. Uninstall and reinstall Direct X8.1
  10. Upgraded to direct X 9
  11. Upgraded VIA VGA chip set drivers
  12. Uninstall Service Pack 2
  13. All the other stuff I did that I can’t remember.

So FINALLY I gave in and just formatted my hard drive and started all over with a fresh copy of windows. I wanted to be EXTRA sure that it worked, so I installed only what I needed to run ET; windows XP Sp1, updated VIA VGA Chip set drivers, direct X 9, video card driver, and Enemy Territory. Launch the game, instant crash with same error.

So I did all I could. I called up my graphics card manufacturer and asked them about it, they were fuckign clueless. About 2 minutes after I just got done telling the guy I upgraded to the latest VIA drivers, he gave me the solution of “upgrade your vga chipset driver” :banghead: :bash: I contaced nvidia about it, and they basically told me to fuck off they don’t do support, thank you nvidia. I checked out rhe microsoft knowledge base regarding this ms visual c++ error message, and they have about 65 different reasons and solutions for that message, none of whcih had anything to do with my problem.

(ParanoiD) #5

Uhm, did you download a fresh ET install file, patched 2.60? If you have copied just your folder or install file it could be corrupt or whatever and don’t copy etmain as well. Just a clean install. But i guess you did this…

Else try out replacing your old videocard again and play and see if it gives teh same error. Another thing is that your running on a 800 MHz rig and i guess the mainboard is pretty old that it gives trouble with new AGP8X cards?

You could also try playing other games, completely different, non opengl etc see if they work and also try an RTCW demo (not sure that it uses the same engine (quake3) as ET, but i guess so).

But I don’t have any clue at all right now.

(Homer J) #6

Does it crash before joining a server?

If it only crashes after joining a server then try a non-punkbuster serevr.

If that works then it s a driver or other software conflict with Punkbuster.

(Etnies) #7

try it with different patches see if it makes any difference… and redownload if u havent already.

(Sauron|EFG) #8

Redownloading is just silly.

The fact that the installer doesn’t complain means it’s not likely that it’s corrupt, but you can check the MD5 hash (google) to make sure.

(eRRoLfLyNN) #9

Any luck Rocco?

(street_samurai) #10

Hi,

I was having exactly the same problem after reinstalling XP. Before, ET was running perfectly… after… -huge- lag spikes, sudden crashes, blue screens and Abnormal Program Termination.

After re-installing windows didn’t help, I -finally- figured out that I needed to install the newest nForce drivers (including the GART driver) from nVidia.

Seems to have solved my problems.

Hope this helps.

ss.

(jonnz) #11

Am having the exact same problem

"MS Visual C ++ Runtime Library Runtime Error!

C:\Program Files\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\ET.exe

Abnormal Program Termination"

7 days ago game was working great, and had done for the last year, only limited by the speed of the cpu, running PIII800, nvidia MX4000 video card 128mb, 448mb ram, win xp home, no hardware changes before error appeared.

Like Rocco have done
reinstalls of updated/original/old drivers,
reinstalls/updateDirect X,
clean install of XP,
reinstalls of ET and its patches,
VIA drivers,
and tried other fixes all with out any success.

Anyone got any ideas?

(Nail) #12

it could be the way MS uses the fast index (or w/e it’s called in XP)
you could try a re-install of the library components from here

(Rocco) #13

Well I recieved a priate message regarding this post I made a long while ago… didn’t realise there was so many people who were askign questions about it. I never got the card to work in that particular computer. I moved the card into other machines and it worked perfectly fine. When I put a different vid card into the same machine that was crashing before, I got no crash. So this made me lean towards the problem being caused by something at the hardware level. Couple it with the fact that there was SOOO many different causes for this error, and so many different “work arounds”(the MS knowledge gave no answer as to why it happened, just soemthing to do to try and prevent it)

I think ParanoiD hit the nail on the head with this:

Another thing is that your running on a 800 MHz rig and i guess the mainboard is pretty old that it gives trouble with new AGP8X cards?

(however oddly enough I put the card in an even older & slower 600Mhz machien and it worked fine. (fine ebign relative, the game looked and played worse then Perfect Dark for the N64 was… but no crash or error)

There was just something going wrong when that vid card tried opengl/directx. If your having this problem all hope is not lost though. Others have gotten this problem and solved it with minor fixes like upgrading vid card drivers. See the error is not what causes the game to crash. The error we get about abnormal program termination as nothing to do with what caused the game to crash… Whatever caused the game to crash, also has a side result of throwing that error in windows. You could get that same error when typing a document in Microsoft Word… it’s not a program specific error.

My suggestions, don’t use old, crappy, hand-me-down, parts to build a frankstien box, and expect it to play & render 3d games :drink: